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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
One of the benefits in terms of election reform from this whole debacle of a year is the sheer volume of mail in voting. By 2024, literally every state should have an apparatus like Florida's to handle mail-in ballots, and should be counting those votes ahead of time in the same manner. Now that so many people have voted by mail once, it's probably how they'll vote from now on. It's just more convenient than standing in line.
The thing is, it's not like mail-in voting has traditionally been so heavily in favour of democrats. In a lot of states, the GOP is really good at getting their vote in that way, particularly from the elderly. They should have built on that instead of ceding that whole voting method to their opponent.
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Agreed on this, and from what I read, there was a proposal to institute Florida-style pre-counting in Pennsylvania, but it was blocked by the Republican house (for the obvious purpose now of trying to create cover for Trump to claim an early victory). It'll be interesting to see if they and other GOP-controlled states do an about face before the next election when it may benefit them for the reasons you point out.