Historic shifts seen in support for mail-in voting

[RandySF]

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to major shifts in how Americans vote across the country and is forcing some of the most restrictive voting states to embrace change in their election procedures.

The change is most apparent on the East Coast, where governors from New England to the South are signaling a new willingness to expand voting measures such as early voting and mail-in ballots, and on Capitol Hill, where leaders including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are strongly in support.

Support for these efforts is spurred on by the public, with Democracy Corps finding in a poll conducted over the past month that more than 70 percent of Americans living in key battleground states are in favor of no-excuse absentee voting, which allows for voters to request an absentee ballot without having to state a reason.

Some Republicans, including President Trump, are still staunchly against voting by mail, arguing it could lead to voter fraud and lessen election chances for the party.

However, a number of Republican governors from states slow to embrace vote-by-mail measures have signaled a newfound openness to it amid the pandemic.




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/492846-historic-shifts-seen-in-support-for-mail-in-voting

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Change.org petition Save the USPS....

http://chng.it/bChgsGtZMy

[brewens]

2. Boy the republicans really shit in their own mess kit in Wisconsin. It never occurred to them

that many of their most reliable voters would be afraid to go out and vote, while many of ours felt they had to. I salute the brave democrats that got that done, though I wouldn't have blamed them a bit for staying home.

I expect that will be a YUGE attitude adjustment for republicans on mail-in voting.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And these crooks still can't come up w/ a valid example of voter fraud, or at least, the occasional

example in which it which a republican operative doing the cheating or fraud. No wonder rump doesn't want to help the USPS (besides the profit motive of delivering the mail by private means), he is thinking that if the USPS doesn't exist, that delivery and/or return of ballots can't be done, thus republicans automatically win again.

Putting Americans at risk isn't a good way to generate good will among all Americans, after all, you put republican voters at risk too in Wisconsin. I wonder what they (the republican voters) felt about being used as guinea pigs and / or willing sacrifices to the republican creed? Remember, this virus doesn't discriminate. One member of a rural community can infect just as many as one member of an urban community, regardless if they are republican or independent or democratic.

I wonder if someone has done a follow-up in Wisconsin to see if the CV case load has increased, due to folks getting out and voting in person? I certainly hope not (well, except for the d**kheads that forced 100,000s of people to put themselves in harms' way, they certainly deserve it).