I see this come up a lot in discussions about voting in America. Postal votes disproportionately go to Democrats, hence the Democrats want to expand postal voting while Republicans want to restrict it (and insist there is totally a bunch of fraud going on).
I’ve googled with a few search engines and haven’t found a convincing reason. Lots of evidence that the skew is real, but no explanation as to why. Indeed, if one just looks at demographics, one would expect postal voting to benefit Republicans by facilitating votes from people in the countryside who live far away from voting centers.
So what actually gives?
Good point. This was part of Trump’s plan in 2020. He told his followers to vote in person, then declared victory on election night before any mail ballots could be realistically counted. Playing into the idea that it was “stolen” because “he was ahead on election night.” Which only happened because he specifically told all his followers NOT to vote by mail.
Afaik mail-in ballots were not the deciding factor in the 2020 election, which Trump lost handily. He was never ahead on election night, though that wouldn’t stop him from claiming it
He was briefly “ahead” in very early vote totals, when in person voting was mostly counted and mail in ballots were mostly uncounted. I remember it was not yet midnight pacific time on election night.
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-trump-falsely-and-prematurely-claims-2020-presidential-victory/19370968/
It was kinda a key thing in the 2020 election. The whole “stop the count” thing. They wanted to stop counting while Trump was still technically ahead in vote totals.
Yeah, Trump is just a blowhard who can’t accept losing. (He’s also a liar, but I’m not sure he doesn’t genuinely believe the election was rigged).
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