re: Has it ever been explained why mail in is skewed to Democrats?

Because people in a cult follow their leaders wishes to the T. No matter how stupid? Just a guess.

Ballot harvesting.

What should be explained is why Republicans aren’t doing it too. Yes, it’s harder because the base is more spread out but tough shite

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Notice: republicans are rarely ever accused of cheating.

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But get caught cheating far more often

They tapped into the eligible votes that were too lazy and/or lacked interest in voting and never would go to the polling station to vote. The army of Dem operatives have flooded the streets and brought the voting booth to their doorstep.

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A couple of days ago, I linked to an article with charts and tables addressing these points. You can run a search on my user name.

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Your link doesn’t support your claim. R have utilized mail in voting pretty consistently over last 12 years, rising slightly and then staying flat. It should have dropped precipitously if they were listening to Trump, it didn’t. At all. What did change however was a massive rise in mail in ballots by the blue team over last few elections. Hmmmm

Not surprisingly both you and the article want to deflect and suggest the change is due to Trump when obviously the data doesn’t support that conclusion.

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Has it ever been explained why mail in is skewed to Democrats?

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Because we tell our base not to trust it and Dem's encourage theirs to use it. It is the simplest way to get votes and we discourage it for whatever reason.

Because it’s the dead vote

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Republicans telling their constituents that vote by mail is bad

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It is. Republicans will never win that fight. They don't have the machine built to go into the bad parts of metros with free money, booze, cell phones or whatever and collect signatures. It's an inherently corrupt process and should absolutely be outlawed, but we are an inherently corrupt country so it won't.

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It's an inherently corrupt process and should absolutely be outlawed,

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Its not "inherently corrupt". It can be done properly and securely. The State of Washington is 100% vote by mail, and they find their election results more secure and reliable than in person voting.

But. Washington took decades to develop and refine its mail in process, and did not become 100% mail in until a few years ago. They did have a few hiccups along the way.

Interesting, it was the Republicans in Washington who pushed the mail in initiatives. The GOP pushed to expand mail in votes in the 90s. Then, after losing a hotly contested gubernatorial race in 2005, the GOP pushed for universal mail in on the grounds that counting both mail in ballots and in person ballots left too much room for error.

The problem in 2020 was that States were trying to jump into massive mail in voting without experience. They just expanded their existing absentee ballot system. States need to implement it slowly, like Washington did, and work out the security issues.

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1. Republicans dominated the early vote until just before 2018.

2. Donald Trump started bad mouthing early voting.

3. Trump followers stopped early voting.

4. In 2018 and thereafter, Democrats utilized early voting at a higher rate.

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Not "early" voting, but "mail-in" voting. Mail-in is a form of early voting but so too is showing up in person at an early voting location and casting your ballot.

As mentioned earlier, the key is ballot harvesting. Someone going around canvasing to gather ballots has far more opportunity to influence voters (whether by answering whom/what they should vote for or simply filling out the ballot themselves) than what's available when people show up in person to vote.

Anyone who doesn't see this is purposely trying to not see it.