Axios is reporting the Democrats are pivoting away from mail-in voting. This change comes after months of pushing the idea. The reasons? Well, that’s where it gets fun.
It seems they are concerned about the number of mail-in ballots that get disqualified. In previous years, about a fifth of all mail-in ballots were rejected. This time around, that number has the potential to be much higher.
A recent ruling in Pennsylvania will automatically disqualify so-called naked ballots, that is ballots that aren’t in the second, security envelope that they’re mailed with.
And in Florida, voters who are mailing their ballots for the first time are twice as likely to have their ballots invalidated.
In North Carolina, “Black voters’ ballots are being rejected at more than four times the rate of white voters,” per FiveThirtyEight.
Overall, data shows new, younger, Black and Hispanic voters are more likely to have their ballots rejected.
More than 550k mail-in ballots were rejected during the presidential primaries this year, per an NPR analysis.
from the axios report.
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Why are the Dems making this pivot now? Their voters are far more likely to vote by mail. It’s not even close, with more than two thirds of Democrats saying they are likely to vote by mail, compared to less than a third of Trump voters.
The thought of losing so many votes to disqualification has to be giving the Biden team the night sweats. Just in Pennsylvania, where Trump won by 44k votes in 2016, the election commission is warning of up to 100,000 votes being invalidated due to the naked ballots ruling. If anywhere near that number get tossed, so does Joe Biden’s chance at the presidency.