Is there some version of expanded voting by mail that Republicans can accept? ed_kilgore considers what that might look like
Ballots processed in all-voting-by-mail Washington. Photo: Jason REdmond/AFP via Getty Images As the legal, logistical, and political chaos surrounding the planned April 7 primary in Wisconsin shows, holding elections during a pandemic is a nightmare. And it can also become a partisan playground, as evidenced by the determination of Wisconsin’s Republican legislative leaders to plunge ahead with Election Day in-person voting with the sure knowledge that turnout will be very low .
The answer will vary according to the Republicans involved and the degree to which Democrats have any leverage to influence them. Some very loud conservative guardians against “voter fraud,” particularly at the Heritage Foundation, are generally hostile to voting by mail, seeing it as prone to abuse engineered by scheming liberals inclined to stuff ballot boxes .
Though there’s no actual evidence that lurid suspicions involving “ballot harvesting” are true , it’s probably not a fight worth waging for proponents of voting by mail. They should trade the general opportunity to collect and deliver ballots for less controversial practices like drop boxes or prepaid envelopes.
3. Non-repressive “fraud” monitoring mechanisms. Yes, Republican accusations, past or present, that there is a threat of widespread “voter fraud” are mostly disingenuous, or at least based on nonexistent evidence. But it is true that voting by mail at least makes fraud marginally more possible, if not likely.
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