Democrats sought more time as a way to help deal with an expected historic high number of absentee ballots.
Handed to love how they ALWAYS take leftists noble explanations of their crusades at face value. They never write "In a move Dems claim will help with.....but R's claim so open the door to election fraud...."
I have a very streamlined thought process:
If the left wants to change something relating to elections, it is bad. It is to rejected out of hand. I used to be involved in some Six Sigma work to make flawed workflows more efficient, and often it wasn't any one big thing you could do, it was identifying and fixing a host of small issues. Think of a strip of metal that is bent in a bunch of different directions, and you straighten this area here...then that one, and soon, a lot of smaller changes make a big impact.
With the Left, they want to gain the electoral advantage the same way. They know they cannot do it with their policies because there is no mandate for their policies. Who wants to pay higher taxes? That kind of thing. So they attack the electoral process on all fronts.
So they try to do it via changing the electoral process. Just look at everything they propose or reject:
- Soros backed Secretary of State Project (to get Leftists into office who can set the voting rules for states...people aren't paying any attention to this so this flies under the radar)
- Ballot Harvesting
- Ranked Voting
- Compacts between states to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote
- Efforts to persuade electors in the Electoral College to swing votes depending on what the Left desires, not the voters in the state.
- Efforts to outright remove the Electoral College and implement a national popular vote.
- Relaxation of absentee ballot provisions
- Extension of both absentee ballot and in-person voting time frames, opening the voting process up as much, and as long as possible to increase the odds of successful voter fraud
- Motor Voter Registration
- Opposition to Voter ID laws
- Opposition to maintenance of voter rolls to remove dead people and people who have left that area.
- Gerrymandering of voting districts (both sides do this, but it is done primarily by the Left for political advantage, not to correct a wrong situation)
- Outright voter fraud
They are attacking this on many fronts, and I believe they are succeeding. Things like The Secretary of State Project, ballot harvesting and ranked voting seem pretty innocuous, but they will eventually have large impacts.
We need to fight these traitors tooth and nail.