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1. If huge swaths of Americans are forced to vote by mail, wouldn't you expect the rate to decrease? 2. Trump is incredibly polarizing, so, sure 3. What was t
by drchopchop 6y ago
1. If huge swaths of Americans are forced to vote by mail, wouldn't you expect the rate to decrease?
2. Trump is incredibly polarizing, so, sure
3. What was the previous turnout / percentage increase?
4. The GOP specifically passed laws that disallowed counting ballots until election day in many districts, which, combined with lots of mail-ins, makes things much slower
5. This was an accident, and was corrected
- laverya 6y ago1. No, I would expect people filling out a mail-in ballot for the first time to get it wrong (and thus have the ballot rejected) more often than people who have done it before. This would track with previous elections, where first-time mail-in voters are more likely to have their ballots invalidated. Protections on mail-in ballots have unambiguously been reduced this election - many states skipped signature validation, for instance. This may be acceptable, but IMO should not have been implemented due to being easy fodder for conspiracy theorists. Yes, the mere appearance of illegitimacy is reason enough to not do something when it comes to potentially contested elections.
- dukeofdoom 6y ago2. This election turn out was 2 standard deviations above average. That has never happened in the past. 3. Detroit region of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Oakland had a 15% increase in turnout compared to 2016 and Macomb was up 18%. More black people came out to vote for Biden than Obama in these historically Black counties. https://www.mlive.com/politics/2020/11/see-2020-election-turnout-by-michigan-county-compared-to-2016.html https://www.mlive.com/politics/2020/11/see-2020-election-tur...