Noun
vote-by-mail (uncountable)
(sometimes attributive) A system for conducting elections in which voters receive and return ballots via the mail
In Oregon, elections are conducted using vote-by-mail.
You must send your vote-by-mail ballot by Friday for it to arrive in the election office in time to be counted.
Synonyms: (initialism) VBM, mail-in voting, postal voting
Actually, I believe vote-by-mail IS the only way in five states, including one pretty darn red state (Utah). Source: Internet
According to the League of Women Voters, “a 2016 study of Colorado from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that costs decreased an average of 40 percent in five election administration categories after implementing vote-by-mail.” Source: Internet
A vote-by-mail infrastructure, supplemented by online cloud-based voting or other fully available accommodations for those with disabilities such as blindness, will allow people to cast a ballot without risking their health at a crowded polling station. Source: Internet
Anyone else going to the polls can either drop off the vote-by-mail ballot or will have to vote a paper provisional ballot which will not be counted until after Nov. 10 when all the vote-by-mail ballots have been counted. Source: Internet
As a legislator, Keisling had an expansion of vote-by-mail to party primaries in 1989. Source: Internet
Austin held about 57% of the vote to Thrash-Ntuk’s 43% in the early results, which consisted mostly of vote-by-mail ballots. Source: Internet