A number of states also made it so that mail-in ballots couldn't be counted before election day. They could have permitted mailed votes to be counted before election day, like they do in Florida, but they wanted to sow doubt in our democracy and help Trump with election denialism since they all knew he would lose the election.sycasey said:dajo9 said:tequila4kapp has a point in that, all over the country election laws were changed in ways that made it easier for Americans to vote safely during a pandemic, and naturally that is a benefit to Dems because when Dems vote, Dems win.sycasey said:I'm just curious about this point. How?tequila4kapp said:
Dems all over the country changed election laws in ways that favored Dems.
They made it easier to vote by mail. It used to be that Republicans gained more from mail-in ballots, until Trump told them not to use those.
In the last 4 years, the GOP and Democrats could have worked together to improve our election laws and infrastructure to make voting by mail more orderly and to help reduce the amount of time it takes to declare winners, but the GOP was maniacally focused on making it harder to legally cast votes because they know that democracy is a threat to the extremely unpopular modern GOP.
As I've said numerous times (h/t to Frum), if forced to choose between democracy and conservativism, the modern GOP will abandon democracy. They continue to prove that every day.