Does Vote-by-Mail Favor Democrats? No. It's a False Argument by Trump.

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News Analysis
Does Vote-by-Mail Favor Democrats? No. It’s a False Argument by Trump.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/politics/vote-by-mail.html


By Reid J. Epstein and Stephanie Saul

April 10, 2020

President Trump said that if the United States switched to all-mail voting, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

The G.O.P. speaker of the House in Georgia said an all-mail election would be “extremely devastating to Republicans.”

Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, said universal mail voting would be “the end of our republic as we know it.”

Yet leading experts who have studied voting by mail say none of that is true.

As with false claims by Republicans about vote-by-mail fraud, there is no evidence to back up the argument from the right that all-mail elections favor Democrats. But Mr. Trump and some of his allies are warning that vote-by-mail poses an existential threat to their party, in hopes of galvanizing Republican opposition to a voting method that is widely seen as safer than in-person voting in the era of the coronavirus.


Five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington — now have all-mail elections, in which ballots are sent to every registered voter without their having to request one. Others, like Arizona and California, allow voters to add themselves to a permanent list of mail voters.

And there are also cases like Nebraska, which allows counties of less than 10,000 people to mail ballots to all voters (many of them Republicans) but forbids it in large urban areas (where many voters are Democrats). Texas allows no-excuse absentee voting for people 65 or older, another group that skews Republican......................

[Newest Reality]

1. I really like to hear him say...

“you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

How sweet that sound sweeps into my ears and what a wondrous vision unfolds in my mind, like a Pure Land of peace and prosperity for the people of this country arising as the overcast shadow of malevolence wanes and a new day dawns with a bright and smiling Sun.

[CrispyQ]

2. I thought there was evidence that when more people vote it favors democrats.

So it would make sense then, that they want fewer people to vote. Right?

[CaptYossarian]

3. The true advantage of Vote-by-mail for Democrats is

it won't matter when the cheating party closes or moves polling places without warning.