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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Republicans need to get serious': 2020 vote-by-mail battle heats up
Coronavirus has campaigns rushing to put voting by mail at the center of their general election strategies and some Republicans worry theyve already fallen behind, as President Donald Trump dismisses the method and drives doubt about mail voting among the GOP base.
Multimillion dollar programs urging mail voting in November are already coming together, as both parties envision a social-distancing election featuring a spike in absentee ballots, according to interviews with more than a dozen campaign strategists, party committees and outside groups. Organizing Together, a field-focused group founded by Obama alumni, is partnering with Priorities USA, the Democratic super PAC blessed by Joe Bidens campaign, to air digital ads in battleground states educating voters on how to cast ballots by mail. The Democratic National Committee called vote-by-mail programs a top priority.
But while conservative campaigns and groups like Americans for Prosperity are planning to pump more spending into their own mail programs to drive turnout, there is growing concern among Republicans that this months Wisconsin elections which saw Democrats capture a state Supreme Court seat after pivoting aggressively to encourage supporters to vote by mail demonstrate a lack of Republican readiness to wage a campaign dominated by absentee ballots.
One Republican consulting firm is already developing models that forecast voters interest in (or skepticism of) voting by mail, while another GOP firm sent a memo to campaigns urging them that now is the time to push early and absentee voting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/2020-vote-by-mail-battle-heats-up-213920
Koch Ebola
(831 posts)It is convenient and you don't have to stand in line or take off from work or school. I guess the GOP are setting themselves up for political suicide.
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Wounded Bear
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(32,673 posts)or no one can vote by mail.
Thunderbeast
(3,406 posts)In 30 years, and millions of ballots cast, ELEVEN is the number of documented attempts at voter fraud in the State of Oregon.
DO NOT let the fraudulent narrative that the Republicans are floating get traction. Mail ballot fraud is a myth designed to suppress democracy in states where likely Democratic voters can be forced to wat in long lines at distant polling places. Now, the added risk of catching a deadly virus is a feature that the GOP can not resist to exploit.