Democrats gained votes in counties that returned more mail ballots

Of all counties in the battleground states of Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin

100,000 returned

mail ballots

Forsyth county, Ga.

10,000

1,000

0

-8pp

-4pp

0pp

+4pp

+8pp

Worse

than 2016

How Democrats

did in 2020

Better

than 2016

100,000 returned

mail ballots

Forsyth county, Ga.

31,000 ballots returned

10,000

1,000

0

-8pp

0pp

+4pp

+8pp

-4pp

Worse than 2016

How Democrats did in 2020

Better than 2016

Guardian graphic. Source: Guardian and ProPublica data using work from University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald; Associated Press