h wrote:With competing bills seeking to either restrict or expand voter access being fought over in state legislatures, the outcome will have an actual impact on election outcomes unlike the challenges against the 2020 general election results.
H,
You know much more about these issues than I do. My understanding is that Democrats pushed mail-in voting because it would get a lot of potential democrats who are poor voting who otherwise would have a difficult time voting in person. My understanding is that Republicans pushed in-person voting in order to lay siege on remote voting, knowing they are outnumbered.
But aren't there a couple other important factors here? Isn't strategy a moving target, where people change their habits based on feedback from the system?
Given the unprecedented desperation people have felt on either side to vote this year, and given that a sitting president lied through his teeth about an election he was trying to steal being stolen, and that his gang of goons have now embraced QAnon and faqs-level dumbness and are out for a second try at a coup, couldn't this change the strategy of Democrats?
I mean, when Democrats said vote by mail, they didn't know there would be 60 baseless lawsuits, an attack on the capitol, and an unprecedented attempt to destroy votes not for Trump. Knowing what we know now, supposing that Republicans were to substantially limit remote voting, couldn't Democrats go all-in on in-person voting? Yes, it might be hard for many people, but those many people have additional reasons to be motivated now, and those organizing voting efforts such as those who did a stellar job in Georgia, as I understand it, could get a plan in place to get more people out to the voting site.