Republicans are playing catch-up with Democrats to boost the number of voters requesting mail-in ballots in key states, an effort complicated by Trump’s criticism of all-mail voting
Republicans are playing catch-up with Democrats to boost the number of their voters requesting mail-in ballots in key states, an effort that is complicated byIn North Carolina, Democratic registered voters requested 53% of the absentee ballots compared with 15% from Republican voters, according to an Aug. 19 analysis by Michael Bitzer, a professor of politics and history at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C.
The rest of the requests came from voters unaffiliated with either major party. North Carolina will start mailing ballots to voters who request one on Sept. 4. North Carolinians have three options for voting this fall: mail-in absentee ballots, an early in-person voting period and going to a polling place on Election Day. The surge in absentee voting is “uncharted territory for North Carolina,” said Mr. Bizter.
The North Carolina Trump Victory committee recently sent an appeal to GOP voters with an image of President Trump and a partial quote from one of his July tweets: “Absentee Ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege.” The mailer blurred out the second half of the tweet in which the president said: “Not so with Mail-Ins.
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