Pennsylvania GOP Lags Dems in Early Ballot Requests

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Pennsylvania GOP Lags Dems in Early Ballot Requests

September 30, 2024 at 3:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 228 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/30/pennsylvania-gop-lags-dems-in-early-ballot-requests/

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“In the past two election cycles, Republicans have been far less eager to vote by mail than Democrats — and their candidates have suffered because of it. This year, Republicans made Pennsylvania their target for flipping the trend, pledging more than $10 million to persuade GOP voters there to vote by mail in the November election,” the New York Times reports.

“Early data from the secretary of state’s office shows that they still have a long way to go.”

“As of Monday, Democrats in the state had requested about 881,000 mail ballots, and Republicans had requested 373,000, less than half of the Democratic total and only about a quarter of the total mail ballots requested in the state.”

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[Rstrstx]

1. Where were those numbers in 2020?

I’d like to see a baseline to compare to two years ago. Of course Covid moved the needle more back then.

[applegrove]

2. 4 years ago.

[Rstrstx]

3. Yes 4 years ago. Is there a way to see how many Dems had requested ballots at this point 4 years ago?

[applegrove]

5. From the article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/pennsylvania-republicans-mail-voting.html

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By encouraging tools like mail-in and absentee voting, Republicans could “cover the spread of the margin we lost by in 2020,” said Jessica Anderson, the president of the Sentinel Action Fund, a conservative political organization with ties to the Heritage Foundation that has been one of the groups focused on mail voting in Pennsylvania. (Sentinel Action Fund became a legally separate entity from the Heritage infrastructure last year).

Max Docksey, the political director of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in a statement that Republicans are “on pace to bank more votes than we did in 2022” in Pennsylvania, and that the small improvements could prove crucial in down-ballot races. “This increase could very well make the difference in a state where control of the legislature will be decided by a razor-thin margin and every vote counts.”

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[Rstrstx]

6. Thanks!

Anything else interesting in the article, I don’t have a NYT subscription?

[applegrove]

7. I hope this works.

http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/pennsylvania-republicans-mail-voting.html

I can't do this again as I get tax credits from Canadian Newspapers as an ideas person for their journalism. I can't steal info from the NYTimes at the same time. I just can't be that person. I'm not free to be that person. I'm not free.

[Rstrstx]

10. It loaded a few paragraphs, thanks though

[Deminpenn]

4. Ask and ye shall receive

From the PA Dept of State website data for 2020

Biden got 1, 995, 720 mailed in votes out of 3,458,229 total votes cast for him. (approx 60%)

Trump got 595, 570 mailed in votes out of 3, 377, 674 total votes cast for him. (approx 15%)

880k puts Dems about 40% of the way to their 2020 mail vote.

373k puts Rs about 60% of the way toward their 2020 total.

[lees1975]

8. But, this isn't a covid year.

And it likely means more Democrats will vote on election day. The mail in vote put Biden over the top after election day left him short about 500,000 votes in PA, but that's not likely to be that wide a margin this time around. The more Republicans request mail in ballots, the fewer Republicans there will be voting on election day. The numbers don't change based on how voters cast their ballots. Biden would have carried the state if there hadn't been a mail in vote, his supporters would have just gone to the polls.

Will we still have to wait a week for Pennsylvania to count its ballots? Or have they figured out how to do this like other states, and count the mail ballots first?

[Rstrstx]

11. What was it like in 2022?

[Jack Valentino]

9. Republican promises have not been worth that much in the past....

"pledging more than $10 million to persuade GOP voters there to vote by mail"


If they follow their dear leader's example, that bill won't be paid.