Republicans have a post-election epiphany on mail voting

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 Republicans have a post-election epiphany on mail voting

There’s just one main hurdle: Donald Trump isn’t ready to drop his attack on the method.



By Meridith McGraw

12/08/2022 04:30 AM EST

As Republicans come to terms with their lackluster midterm performance, top GOP officials and conservative luminaries are acknowledging voters were led astray with calls to reject early and absentee voting.

They’re just not naming the leading figure who helped get them there.

“Our voters need to vote early. There were many in 2020 saying, don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early, and we have to stop that, and understand that if Democrats are getting ballots in for a month, we can’t expect to get it all done in one day,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel warned on Fox News.

McDaniel did not mention former president Donald Trump, who has railed against early, absentee, and mail-in voting for years and falsely claimed the methods led to widespread voter fraud that cost him the election. And a spokesperson said her comments were not targeted at the former president.

But, privately, Republican operatives concede that Trump has put their party in an electoral pinch and that the problems extend beyond voting methods.

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[Fishrrman]

"Republicans have a post-election epiphany on mail voting"

This will do nothing to "help" them.

Please take 20 seconds and read this post I put up a week ago on "mail-in voting":
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,486146.msg2748996.html#msg2748996

[Free Vulcan]

Dealing with these GOP mucky-mucks is like talking to retarded cats and expecting them to build a warp drive spaceship. 

It is NOT mail-in ballots. Not per se. Yes I would like to get rid of them, but note that the problems in AZ were with election day ballots, not mail-ins.

It boils down to the voter lists and the counting, i.e. the security, transparency, and chain-of-custody. If you don't have a hand on those you have nothing.

Mail-ins are easy to reign in: 1) No more than a three week window, 2) Last ballots are mailed out two weeks before election day, 2) they must be postmarked by a week before election day, 3) they must be received the day before the election, 4) they must be counted the day of election, and no more than one day after, 5) absolutely NO drop boxes - everything must be postmarked.

The GOP doesn't have to either hate or embrace mail-ins - they need to tightly structure and control them in a way where a jurisdiction isn't counting them a week later and where un-postmarked ballots keep magically appearing the whole time.