Republican Leaders Have A Choice: Roll Back Early Voting And Mail-In Ballots Or Learn To Take Advant

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Republican Leaders Have A Choice: Roll Back Early Voting And Mail-In Ballots Or Learn To Take Advantage Of Them
By: Eddie Scarry
November 14, 2022

There isn’t just one reason for the midterm shortcomings but none are more important than the party’s neglect in adapting to our new jungle of an election process.

Republicans apparently learned very little from the 2020 election which turned voting and vote counting into a chaotic multi-week affair, all to the great advantage of Democrats.

After finding their party blown out of the water by early votes and mail-in ballots, both vastly expanded to accommodate the pandemic hysteria, elected GOP leaders seem to have thought to themselves, “Well, better luck next time!”

And here we are. In an election year that should have seen major gains for Republicans across the board, the party failed to take the Senate, could still (a week after Election Day) fail to secure the House, and is now on life support for the governorship in Arizona. There isn’t just one reason for the shortcomings but none are more important than the party’s neglect in adapting to our new jungle of an election process.

For the past two years, every Republican should have been either attempting to beat back the flood of “no excuse” mail-in ballots saturating swing states, or building up a party network that could adapt to it. There were some efforts to manage the mail-in voting problem in Arizona and Georgia but otherwise the party said its prayers and hoped for the best heading into the midterms.

We see how that strategy turned out. Democrats once again turned on the ignition and their army of activists began knocking on doors and dialing up their reliable voters to be sure that every single one of them knew the time to vote was now. Whether it was three weeks or a month before actual Election Day, it didn’t matter. Now. In response, Republicans donned a toothy smile and told their voters to keep Tuesday open. Wait in line— no matter how long it takes.

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[Free Vulcan]

Does anyone pay attention? The problem we had in AZ was due to sabotaged election day voting machines, not mail-ins, and unsecure ballots at a printers where no one could see what is going on.

It is Who and How the ballots are counted, and the level of transparency of that count that is the problem, plus the security and chain-of-custody before the ballots are ever counted.

It's like a factory process, every link in the chain has to be scrutinized.

[Kamaji]

Does anyone pay attention? The problem we had in AZ was due to sabotaged election day voting machines, not mail-ins, and unsecure ballots at a printers where no one could see what is going on.

It is Who and How the ballots are counted, and the level of transparency of that count that is the problem, plus the security and chain-of-custody before the ballots are ever counted.

It's like a factory process, every link in the chain has to be scrutinized.

Absolutely.  The mail-in chicanery is just part of the overall fraudulent ecosystem into which our election process has descended.

[Fishrrman]

Title and presumption:
"Republican Leaders Have A Choice: Roll Back Early Voting And Mail-In Ballots Or Learn To Take Advantage Of Them"

In the blue and some purple states, the idea of "a rollback" is... impossible.
If anything, these states are going to EXPAND (cough) voting "opportunities" in the future.

What action that CAN be taken, must be taken in the red and a few purple states.
At least for now.

Could there be adapted by these states some form of "Uniformed Voting Code" that is INDEPENDENT of the DC government?
In the same way that the leftist states have signed onto "The National Popular Vote" compact?

If they can do it, why can't we?

[Hoodat]

Republican Leaders?  They are the ones who gave us this mess.

[libertybele]

No mail in voting.  No early voting.  Vote on Election Day only.