Some states, mine included, are apparently planning to use only mailed in ballots. The plan is that if you insist on voting in person they have made it really hard by cutting the number of polling places to a small few (so they are probably not close) and only allowing you to turn in your mail-in ballot in person, basically just skipping the post office. If you've tossed it because you planned to vote in person then you have to go to some courthouse somewhere to request permission to vote. In other words, they are making in-person voting so onerous that nobody (they hope) will do it.
I dare say that if you show up at your polling place and discover that now you have to drive 20 miles but you soldier on only to find that you need to go to a courthouse somewhere else and request a new ballot a lot of people will just say 'F-it. I have to get to work'
this by definition is voter disenfranchisement.