Strange: Suddenly Democrats Are Pushing For Voting In Person

Hey, here’s Joe pushing vote in person, even as he hides in his basement

In-person early voting should be easy and convenient for all. The Flint, MI City Clerk’s office will be open the last three weekends before Election Day for folks to cast their ballots. It’s an example that cities and states across the country should follow.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 24, 2020

Two points: first, why do Democrats have such trouble voting in areas that are run fully by Democrats? All sorts of problems, including long lines and incompetent counts. Second, Joe is pushing vote in person!

Democrats’ mail voting pivot

Democrats spent the early months of the coronavirus pandemic urging their base to vote absentee. But as threats of U.S. Postal Service delays, Team Trump litigation and higher ballot rejection rates become clearer, many are pivoting to promote more in-person voting as well.

Why it matters: Democrats are exponentially more likely to vote by mail than Republicans this year — and if enough mail-in ballots are lost, rejected on a technicality or undercounted, it could change the outcome of the presidential election or other key races.

Driving the news: In Colorado, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, who’s running against Sen. Cory Gardner, told Axios that he’s encouraging voters to physically take their mail-in ballots to a dropbox and to do so “early, really early.”

Black PAC has moved from exclusively educating voters on voting by mail to informing about all available options: in-person, absentee, early voting and voting on Election Day.

The Collective PAC — the largest Black-led political action committee targeting Black voters and candidates — is pivoting, too. “We’re shifting away from making plans to vote by mail to voting early in person,” Quentin James, the group’s founder, told Axios.

Dems are starting to realize that there is lots of fraud, and their own ballots may get “lost” because the Democrats who run the voting in certain areas are incompetent. And that Dem voters may fail to put their ballots in their post box, or put them in too late, disqualifying them.

Last week, Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, voted in person one day before Delaware’s primary.

If they can do it, so can everyone else. And Democrats are concerned that people will wait till the last moment to mail in those ballots, meaning that lots of squishy Dems will see Low Energy Joe hiding in his basement and the gaffes and mental issues. What if that happens during a debate? How might that effect the vote, versus getting people to vote early?

On the first day of early in-person voting in Virginia, long lines formed quickly with voters waiting two hours or more to cast a ballot.

It’s September: why are we voting now?

(The Hill) A handful of ballots cast by members of the military for President Trump were found discarded in Pennsylvania, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.

Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis asked the DOJ and FBI to open an investigation into the discarded ballots on Monday following reports of “potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a release.

Democrats also might be realizing that cheating could come back to haunt them in the days and weeks after the election.