• WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That tracks. Trump has effectively vilified mail-in/early voting to reduce the republican numbers.

    If he’s losing, he intends to undermine mail-in votes and attempt to characterize them as fraudulent and get as many of them tossed out as possible. Even if he can’t get them tossed, he will say it’s clear democrats are using illegal immigrants and other non-eligible voters to steal the election to rile up his voters for more extreme action. He will point to how “impossible” the democratic bias in those votes are as evidence of the “fraud.” If they weren’t overwhelmingly democratic votes, that wouldn’t work.

    Along with other strategies involving certification and armed militia patrolling polling places, this is generally what he wants to see for mail-in votes. His campaign has been quite clear that this is part of their multi-pronged plan to undermine the election if he’s losing.