[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

I’m not overly educated on this issue so I’ll ask and see what you guys think. Would it be a bad idea in future elections to limit mail-in ballots to citizens living/working abroad, military personnel, and those with severe disabilities that prevent them from leaving home? I think they could extend in-person voting by a few days to reduce wait times at the polls. Maybe give three days to vote in person? I just don’t see any reason Joe Blow who lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia needs to be mailing in a ballot instead of voting in person.

I understand the concerns with COVID this year but there has to be a way to avoid this fiasco in the future.

I don’t know how feasible this is and I might be overlooking some problems here.

Here is a good summary of the GOP plan to sabotage mail in voting and win on a “Red Mirage”.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...701750785.html

So Trump comes full force after mail voting, and since he's the ultimate elite signaling for Republicans, Republican voters abandon that voting method everywhere they have the option to.

That actually ends up making the GOP's strategy of this "Red Mirage" viable, bc they now have high confidence that election day vote is going to heavily favor them and that disqualifying mail ballots, en masse, normally a crazy plan in a swing state, is now a great approach bc they are likely to break strongly in favor of Biden.

So they begin to roll out their Red Mirage plan- spend months preparing the Rep electorate to see mailed-in ballots as inherently corrupt & thus, accomplish a very hard task of normalizing the idea of disqualifying these ballots in a democracy.

They have, of course, a not-insignificant asset. They have Fox News, which serves as the linchpin in a massive & impenetrable propaganda machine on the political Right that has pushed out, buried, and utterly marginalized conservativisms traditional "thinkers" and publications.