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RandySF

(58,800 posts)
Sun May 10, 2020, 02:35 PM May 2020

Democrats' Vote-By-Mail Effort Won in Wisconsin: Will It Work Elsewhere?

It was a shocking margin of victory in what was expected to be a close race: an 11-point blowout by a liberal judge over a conservative incumbent for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Now Wisconsin Democrats are working to export their template for success — intense digital outreach and a well-coordinated vote-by-mail operation — to other states in the hope that it will improve the party’s chances in local and statewide elections and in the quest to unseat President Trump in November.

Their top officials have gone on a virtual nationwide tour, extolling the virtues of their digital campaign efforts in hopes Democrats and liberal activists elsewhere can replicate their victory, when Jill Karofsky, a liberal judge, ousted State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly.

The first chance comes Tuesday in a special election for a Republican-heavy House district that covers the northern third of the state. It is the nation’s first partisan contest since Wisconsin’s April 7 election, and it will provide more evidence as to whether Democratic vote-by-mail success in that race is repeatable.




https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/politics/Wisconsin-election-vote-by-mail-.html

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Democrats' Vote-By-Mail Effort Won in Wisconsin: Will It Work Elsewhere? (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP
I hope ballots by mail I_UndergroundPanther May 2020 #1

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
1. I hope ballots by mail
Sun May 10, 2020, 02:48 PM
May 2020

Is done in all states. Elections should've be made by mail a long,long time ago.

The republicans have rigged voting
In person,the machines themselves
Along with gerrymandering,and fraud,and not making voting day a national holiday.

By whining on and on about mail in ballots so much They admit thier cheating obstructing , gerrymandering and fraud is how those pigs get elected. They admit they won't win a legitimate clean vote. They admit thier weakness and guilt for rigging the system.

Anyway mail in ballots would be closer to the true will of the people. The scumbag rich and thier republican lapdogs will lose.
And it could help the post office,the repigs hate.
Mail in ballots require a post office which is a national institution that is public and so they can't control it or profit off it or work with thier corrupt buddies to skew things the
republicans way
The rich wingnuts fear the will of the people is to be rid of the right wing parasites.

And I think most people want them out, forever.

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