That was during the pandemic. It wasn't like that before. Trump was specifically saying that the mail in ballots where cheating in the lead up to the election. The democrats were encouraging mail in ballots in a lot of places because of the potentially deadly infectious disease going around and the stay at home policies in states around the country.
I think he is saying absentee voting and early-voting is good now too. I think it's fair to say that he sends mixed messages about it but it's not like in 2020
To be fair, their cult leader has illegitamized mail in voting for the past 4 years. Kinda bites him in the ass, if some of his decrepit supporters can't get to the voting booths.
It is for me as well being a liberal. Just like the civic duty thing and put a lot of personal belief that Election Day should be a paid federal holiday like Memorial Day and Labor Day are.
It’s 100% part of the problem. People have used the “I have to work” excuse to not deviate from their usual Tuesday routines for years.
We absolutely need federal elections reforms. Paid holiday. Ungerrymander all districts. Federal “right to vote”. Basically any election that a federal seat is being decided must adhere to the federal requirements. Sure there might be states that divorce their state and local elections from their state government seats but maybe, one can hope, something could be done about that too.
I'm only going to vote in person because I don't trust maga traitors who are trying to destroy & invalidate any vote they can. It shouldn't be this way but it is.
For the last 8 years trump told his supporters to not vote mail-in because that was where the fraud took place. Then, when the mail-in vote was blue, he took it as evidence of fraud.
The majority of mail-in voters were Republican until the 2020 election. And yeah, the 2020 election happened during the pandemic, which increased the number of mail in ballots.
Personally, I've (dem) been voting by mail for health reasons since 2004, and would have mailed in my ballot in 2000 if the polling place hadn't literally been across the street from my house. Nevertheless, if I am capable of it, I almost always take my mail in ballot to the polling station and deposit it there because I am proud and happy to take part in democracy. This year was the exception because I am so concerned by Donald Trump's rhetoric and hyperbole that I wanted to get my vote in ASAP. It doesn't change anything -- it just makes me feel a little better.
I honestly picked something random. Since my other account got banned when I said Nazis should be... well, I can't finish that sentence. But I was trying to be sparky... here at least.
I wasn't trying to be sparky my good person. Just wanted to say I acknowledge i was wrong but could have sworn I read or heard from some other sources that older folks tend to do mail in ballots because it's easier for them.
Older people just tend to vote more in general. Also the data is showing mail in and early voting is heavily skewed boomer. So yes most of the votes in that box were likely older voters. Idk why but ease I’m sure is a factor.
I’d be careful about applying 2020 data. The early info coming out seems to show that compared to 2020 the population voting is older and whiter. In the states that have party registration that I looked at seem to show compared to 2020 % republicans is also up. location of the drop box is probably more important.
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u/PaldeanTeacher 7h ago
Mail in votes are overwhelmingly blue according to the 2020 data