A possible alternate reason that DeJoy and Trump are trying to suppress mail-in voting [View all]
The reason that I've been hearing that DeJoy and Trump are trying to suppress mail-in voting is that Democrats are more likely to vote by mail than Republicans. That may be true, but I have an additional theory that I haven't heard anyone suggest yet:
Trump and his minions might be planning some sort of late October surprise to be released just before Election Day so that Democrats won't have enough time to counter it. This strategy could work if everyone has to vote on the same day.
But since mail-in voters will be mailing their ballots over a spread-out period well ahead of November 3rd, Trump's last-minute claim won't be effective on them even if they believe him. If they've already mailed their ballots then it will be too late for them to change their votes.
And if Trump releases his bogus claim too soon there will be time to wait and see if it pans out, and if it's successfully discredited that could work against him.
One might argue that if this is true then Trump should also be against in-person early voting, but maybe he can't think of any plausible reason to be against that.
So, could this be one of the reasons that Trump wants to stop mail-in voting? Has anyone heard this suggested already?
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