There’s no evidence convenience voting is corrupt. But Trump and DeSantis still attack it while advocating its use by their own voters.
Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imagesand his supporters that “convenience voting” — voting by mail, early in-person voting, third-party mail ballot collections, same-day voter registration, and other ways to make it easier to exercise the right to self-government — is an evil leftist scheme to steal elections. As The Federalist’s Ben Weingarten recentlyDemocrats largely developed and long fought for this system, willing it into existence under the cover of Covid-19.
Sometimes Republicans allege anything other than in-person voting with ID on a single day using paper ballots is inherently fraudulent, as Trump has repeatedly. Other times they simply suggest such practices are corrupt, in that they enable voting by people not informed or motivated enough to get off their butts and go to the polls on Election Day like their more responsible fellow-citizens.
was not about public opinion at all. It was about the campaign system – the combined elements of mobilization-friendly and early mail-in balloting, large campaign organizations to gather the votes, and an enormous amount of money. Whether they call it crime or corruption, Republicans’ sinister interpretation of convenience voting as largely a contemporary partisan scam is highly ahistorical. Voting from a distance is at least as old as the massive balloting among U.S. troops in the Civil War. And early voting began to pick up steam long before COVID-19, often in Republican-controlled states, as The Conversation
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