Mail in voting probably a countermeasure as the Republicans had managed to get id required in quite a lot of states. They never give up, they never give in, and they’ve been doing it since 1827. Well it’s almost impossible to put dates on things like this. I expect they were the ugly side of the American Revolution, the side that were only in it to loot as much as possible, to take property from loyalists who owned it, and to expropriate land from the Indians, which the Crown never allowed them to do, having had treaties with the Indian nations and lines of territorial control.
Sometimes I don’t know which side I would have been on in the Revolution. Things got really ugly. If you opposed the revolutionaries, the so called Committees of Safety, bad bad things would happen to you. For example, your house might be burned, you might be tarred and feathered, and you might get put on a ship leaving for England naked without a farthing to your name. To be a loyalist would have felt a lot like we feel now, or at least so feel a faint echo of. I don’t know what to make of that.
War is never, ever pretty. Living the mortal world is never pretty, actually. Always a dark side, people who choose wrongly, choose evil, etc. That darn free will...
Of course if you were a poor Scot or Irishman without a pence they’d put you on a ship as a slave and send you to America and make you work for seven years for nothing just to gain your freedom, and so I imagine a lot of the lower class support for the rev had a lot to do with prior ill treatment at the hand of the King’s men.