Louisiana's proposed spring elections plan: Expanded mail-in voting, no extra early voting days Sam Karlin Louisiana's chief elections official is proposing an emergency plan for the February and Spring elections mirroring the expansion of mail-in voting allowed during the presidential election this fall, though without additional days of early voting. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, a Republican, submitted his plan to lawmakers ahead of legislative hearings next week. If approved by lawmakers and Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, the state will have in place the same mail-in voting expansion as the summer, November and December elections. It doesn't feature the extra days of early voting that were included in Louisiana's November presidential election. Those extra days helped power early voting to record levels in the state.