Posted on 05/03/2021 7:03:22 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine State’s 1988 U.S. Senate race.
Floridians went to sleep that Nov. 8 believing that Democrat Buddy MacKay had prevailed with a slim lead of less than one percentage point. The television networks had called the race for him. The St. Petersburg Times published a story the next day declaring that Republican Connie Mack had “failed to win big” in crucial conservative strongholds Lee and Pinellas counties.
Then the last of the absentee ballots came in. They went 3 to 1 for Mack, delivering him a 34,518-vote victory.
“It was legendary,” said David Johnson, a longtime GOP consultant in the state. “The Republicans had done such a good job with absentee ballots that they eked out a narrow win.”
So began a long and fruitful relationship between the GOP and absentee voting. Republican campaigns invested millions of dollars encouraging their supporters to cast ballots by mail. State legislators passed laws making it easier. Over the ensuing decades, GOP voters in Florida became so comfortable with casting ballots by mail that in 2020, nearly 35 percent of those who turned out did so, according to state data compiled by University of Florida political science professor Daniel A. Smith.
Virtually every narrow Republican victor of the past generation — and there have been many, including two of the state’s current top officeholders, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott — owes their victory, at least in part, to mail voting.
Now, some Florida Republicans are reacting with alarm after the GOP-dominated state legislature, with DeSantis’s support, passed a far-reaching bill Thursday night that puts new restrictions on the use of mail ballots.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WashPost with its not-so-subtle defense of the mail voting scam the Dems need to cheat
expect more of this kind of propaganda from this rag
Exactly.
It’s called “Election Day” for a good reason: It’s supposed to be on a specific Day.
Translation: Mail-in ballots will lower Democrat-authored ballots in Republican elections ...
WP Fake News.
Republican votes to be counted Washington Post whines.
Well only if they run a RINO. But that will be because nobody will vote for them.
Wife and I voted by mail when we lived in Florida. Florida has a very good, secure system in place. Making it better will only hurt the scum dems in the Miami area.
The Florida absentee-ballot mail-in program differs in many ways from the mass mailings that were instituted (often illegally) by many states after the COVID-19 Wuhan virus restrictions were put in place. In Florida, the ballot must be requested in advance, and the deadline for mailing it in is strictly observed, none of these “flexible” rules that proved so convenient to implement widespread fraud.
RATs know all they have to do is vote for a RINO in the GOP primary.
I said "Do you want to vote?" She said yeah she could do that. As she filled it out I asked her how she got it and she said some lady came by and handed it out.
I told her I would take care of it for her. At the time I was a precinct chair and I knew where it needed to go.
My point being that she did not request the ballot. Someone, probably from the democrat party, made a run to places where old people live and just passed them out. That is illegal.
But that is how the dems operate. They skirt the law. That is lawlessness.
Very true.
"worried" = Dem Projection
This WaPo ‘writer’, Amy Gardner’ is the one who reported the story, attributed to anonymous sources, that President Trump told a Georgia government official to “find the fraud” in the GA election and you’ll be “a national hero”...
This story created an uproar in the DS MSM...
Later, actual tapes of the conversation were released to show the Trump quotes were not accurate, and the WaPo had to do a retraction...
And, she’s still employed by the WaPo to put out propaganda for the DS industrial complex...
yeah, the wapo wishes....
Washington Post? Seriously?
The crux of the article: an anonymous consultant. I can make shit up too, and make it more entertaining. Anyone that believes a damn thing the Compost prints is hideously stupid.
Methinks the Wash Compost protesteth too much!
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