I’ve seen this pivot of the Left to vote in-person (anecdotal only, of course). They’re afraid Trump will steal the election by slowing down the mail!
I think their plan is that now that all their voters have mailed in votes, and some or all of them get counted, why not have them vote again in person? It’s not like their name is on the one they mailed in.
Funny they are pivoting the day after the democrats have successfully for now increased the days the mail in ballots can be received and counted. An extension anywhere from 3 days Georgia) to 14 days Michigan and so on in all the battleground states. Why did they bother to do the extensions if they don’t want you to mail in your ballot?
Everything the democrats do is suspicious and purposeful.
I would say that the high rejection rate is what is panicking the Democrats. A middleclass Republican is more likely to properly fill out a mail-in ballot than high school dropouts and convicts who use it to wipe their butts first.
I think that they have looked at the response by team Trump to the legal rulings and determined that he will get them reversed expeditiously at the appeal level if not at the SC.
Bush v Gore set the standard that the courts could not change the election laws and that the laws, as written, and any changes have to be done by the legislature. Also, numerous cases in the past few years have made clear that changes, (even those done by judicial fiat for constitutional reasons), close to an election should be stayed and not implemented until the next cycle.
The extension of mail-in ballot acceptance dates are in violation of current laws. The acceptance of non-postmarked or illegible post marks being accepted after the close of the polls are also in violation of current laws. The court, instead of allowing these changes, could have ordered the State election officials to conduct PSA’s ensuring that voters know that they need to mail their ballots early enough to ensure they arrive on or before 3 November. The “cure” is not how these cases should have been decided and I believe that the appeals courts, (or SC if they take it directly there), will rule against the district courts and order the current laws to be followed for this election.
The “emergency” is not immediate. There is time to educate the voters.