Posted on 11/15/2022 4:45:55 PM PST by lightman
The Democrat strategy of using mail-in ballots to vote played a pivotal role in last week’s election results. Pennsylvania Republicans are talking amongst themselves about how to react in the next election. Republicans have two views: get rid of mail-in voting—which seems unlikely with more elected Democrats in power—or learn how Democrats got an avalanche of mail-in votes and employ the same strategy.
The Epoch Times asked the Pennsylvania GOP to discuss the 2022 results and its strategy regarding mail-in ballots in future elections, but it chose not to participate in this story. Pennsylvania Democrats were also asked to comment on their mail-in strategy but did not not respond.
In stump speeches and on social media, Pennsylvania Democrats actively encouraged voters to vote by mail in the days before the election. Often supporters would tweet at a candidate that they just mailed in their ballot.
A look at the numbers behind the election show just how much Democrats relied on mail-in voting. Democrats Asked for More Mail-in Ballots
According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, 1,439,579 voters requested mail-in ballots statewide. Of those, 986,540, or 69 percent, were registered Democrats, and 303,438, or 21 percent, were Republicans. The rest were independents.
In 60 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, 50 percent or more of the requested mail-in ballots were for Democrats. In all counties, less than half the mail-in ballot requests came from Republicans, and often far less. In 29 counties, 29 percent or fewer of the mail-in ballots requested went to Republicans.
When looking at individual counties, the disproportionate use of mail-in ballots by party is clear.
For example, in Philadelphia County, 165,980 mail-in ballots were requested, and of those, 86 percent went to Democrats and just 5 percent went to Republicans. That may not be surprising in a majority Democrat county like Philadelphia, which has 807,979 registered Democrats and just 120,949 registered Republicans, or in Democrat majority Allegheny County, which received 190,684 requests for mail-in ballots, 76 percent of which were Democrat and 15 percent were Republican.
But it is more surprising in majority Republican counties like Washington County, where 68 percent of requested mail-in ballots went to Democrats and just 23 percent to Republicans, or Lancaster County where Democrats requested 58 percent of the mail-in ballots and Republicans requested 29 percent. The rest of the requests in each of these examples went to independents.
More of Pennsylvania’s purple swing voters—independents—supported Democrats in this election. Shapiro received 1,011,783 mail-in votes. But statewide, 986,540 Democrats requested mail-in ballots. It means Shapiro earned 25,243 more mail-in votes than ballots requested by Democrats, meaning independents and possibly some Republicans offered their support.
But they were not as keen on Fetterman, who received 949,616 mail-in votes, that is, 36,924 fewer mail-in votes than the total number of mail-in ballots requested by Democrats.
And by strategy, they mean cheating their asses off.
If you have proof this is illegal and people have been arrested for it in pa then do so. If not the GOP better get a VBM operation or they are just writing off states now
Exactly. I had hoped the GOP would have upped its ground game after 2020, but frankly, I don’t see anything changing until Trump is off the stage. I don’t blame Trump, I blame the GOP. They’re sitting on the sidelines until Trump is gone. They’d rather lose than see him or his candidates win.
Anyway, once we are trying to win again, I would hope we will start whipping up the mail-in votes. We’re trying to get the occasional voter to the polls. Democrats have him sign his name, and check a few boxes. We ask him to give up 2-3 hours of his life driving and standing in line. No wonder they’re getting the turnout.
More of Pennsylvania’s purple swing voters—independents—supported Democrats in this election. Shapiro received 1,011,783 mail-in votes. But statewide, 986,540 Democrats requested mail-in ballots. It means Shapiro earned 25,243 more mail-in votes than ballots requested by Democrats, meaning independents and possibly some Republicans offered their support.>>> Funny conclusion. An audit might show that they just counted the mail in ballots twice and the dem numbers add 8-2 more votes. WIthout a real audit no one knows how many votes are real.
I agree but until these laws change the GOP better fight fire with fire or kiss states with many electoral votes goodbye
Read that paragraph again. The writer assumes that every Dem who requested a ballot mailed it in and voted for the Democrat plus some Republicans and Independents did as well.
Excuse me if I don’t believe the 100% of Dems returning their ballot story. Not a single Dem didn’t get around to filling out his ballot? Not a single Dem voted Repulican? Give me a break.
I think the GOP should very publicly state its intent to push vote by mail and ballot harvest. Talk frequently about ballot harvesting strategies, etc. and make sure everyone knows that term. As it stands today few people are really aware of how Dems are gaming the system, so the sooner we get this issue at the forefront the better it will be.
Mail ballots is how the USA dies
The thing is 1.6 million people in PA voted for Trump that didn’t vote at all in this election. There are people who only vote for Donald and won’t even consider voting for another candidate even if these candidates are hand picked by Donald they need an operation to reach these voters
Nearly 700,000 votes before the debate was cast.
Face it people can tell about fraud all they want. Either the GOP
gets in the ballot harvesting and vote by mail deal or continue to lose even with a moderate candidate like Dr Oz>>> And at the end of the day they won’t double count the republican votes. Just the dem ones. WIth out real audits it is a fraudulent system.
in the current situation, there will never be a Republican President again
Yeah and we could replace those pesky plastic cards that we carry around as money and replace all that paperwork like bills, contracts, mortgages, medical records, birth certificates. /s
According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, 1,439,579 voters requested mail-in ballots statewide. Of those, 986,540, or 69 percent, were registered Democrats, and 303,438, or 21 percent, were Republicans. The rest were independents.>>> And you can’t audit this system. it is fraudulent, per report from dem auditor general on dem SOS. https://www.paauditor.gov/Media/Default/Reports/Department%20of%20State_SURE%20Audit%20Report%2012-19-19.pdf
The SURE system he is getting the numbers from is not updated correctly from the election processes.
The PA GOP are effing stupid.
Just remember….republicans went along with the original bill. Saw something fishy after the SOS, at the time, unilaterally changed the law allowing for all the fraud.
Republicans sued. Court said there was no injury so suit had no merit. Biden wins in a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 way, SOS & Gov certify the vote. Back to court and court decides they were too late.
On a side note, didnt a Pa Court decide earlier this year that mail in ballots were unconstitutional? Yes.
So, how were they allowed to be counted?
The Republicans aren’t losing because of mail-in voting. They’re losing because they have too many retarded candidates.
Damned right. Where the dems use mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, do exactly the same.
With multiple free Obama phones.
Or just drop envelopes full of human SH** into all their beloved drop-boxes.
No one will want to touch the corrupted ballots then.
I really despise Marc Elias.
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