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Mass Mail-In Voting Is Democrats’ New ‘Blue Wall’ To Beat Republicans
The Federalist ^ | 09/16/24 | William Doyle

Posted on 09/16/2024 10:07:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Democrats are counting on greatly expanded, no excuse mail-in voting in swing states to win the 2024 presidential election.

The most striking feature of the contentious 2020 election was the sudden explosion of mass mail-in voting in states that had little experience with it, and the unprecedented levels of election interference that occurred as left-leaning nonprofit organizations such as The Center for Tech and Civic Life (which was behind “Zuckbucks”) and Democrat “lawfare” experts tried to make the best of this chaotic, mail-in ballot free-for-all.

The mail-in ballot election of 2020 created the template for the Democrats’ new “Blue Wall” election strategy, as a deluge of mail-in ballots propelled Joe Biden to victory, especially in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The rate of mail-in voting rose to above 50 percent in Michigan and Wisconsin, and almost 40 percent in Pennsylvania.

The old “Blue Wall” was an impregnable fortress of safely Democrat states because of large blocs of blue-collar voters — mainly in the Rust Belt of the upper Midwest — that could be relied upon to get Democrats an electoral college victory in a close election. The old “Blue Wall,” however, dramatically failed to protect Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, as an unexpectedly large number of formerly Democrat, working-class voters in Rust Belt states became Donald Trump voters.

Democrats have countered the defection of working-class voters by going all in on no-excuse mail-in voting, first as a temporary, emergency measure during the Covid-19 pandemic, and now as a natural and inevitable evolution of the election landscape, according to partisan media propaganda. States that adopted extremely liberal mail-in voting regimes during Covid are being counted on to function as a new “Blue Wall,” where it is hoped that mountains of mail-in ballots will provide Democrats with an insurmountable electoral advantage.

How the New ‘Blue Wall’ Works, and How It Changes the Election System

Even with a more credible candidate than Kamala Harris, it is doubtful that today’s Democrat Party could win an electoral college victory in a close election in the absence of the current, expanded mail-in voting regime in the swing states.

This is because mass mail-in voting increases the political power of the geographically concentrated urban and university voters who are key parts of the Democratic coalition. It also damages election integrity in ways that are only now beginning to be understood.

Heavily funded mass mail-in “ballot harvesting” and ballot canvassing at a scale that is likely to have a significant impact on election results will not be successful outside of densely populated areas where homogeneous, highly partisan voting blocs can be identified. Deep-blue urban areas and large universities, with their heavy concentrations of Democrat voters, are perfect settings for successful ballot harvesting and canvassing efforts based on mail-in voting.

Vast new powers flow to the process-oriented election activists, nonprofit organizations, and liberal nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that propagandize for expanded mail-in voting, and plan and administer the mail-in ballot regimes behind the new “Blue Wall.”

The logistical difficulties and expense of a mass mail-in ballot mobilization in less densely populated areas with politically diverse populations would be prohibitive. This reduces the impact of conventional, in-person voters who live in rural and exurban areas.

This explains the inherent partisan advantage of mail-in voting for the Democrat coalition, but it doesn’t explain the damage that mass mail-in voting inflicts on the election system.

The problem is, when the emphasis in elections shifts from turning out conventional voters to chasing mail-in ballots, as it has for the Democrats in swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, we have entered a qualitatively different electoral world than the one we inhabited before.

Elections won on the basis of mail-in voting and ballot harvesting tell us far more about the ingenuity and logistical efficiency of ballot harvesters, community organizers, and the election activists of the liberal nonprofit world than about voter enthusiasm, voter policy preferences, and whether voters are satisfied with the performance of their elected representatives.

 An electoral consensus reached through mail-in voting is certain to be a “manufactured” consensus, imposed on the election by the partisan media, and by the powerful nonprofits and NGOs that have financed and promoted the expansion of the current mail-in voting regime. This is in contrast to the role that free and fair elections have always played in providing a public affirmation of a specific candidate or governing agenda, and in checking abuses of government power.

What Will Happen Behind the New ‘Blue Wall’ in 2024

Corporate media has transformed Kamala Harris from a has-been, far-left presidential contender and generally awful vice president into an unbeatable presidential candidate, appearing to ride an unstoppable wave of organic popular support among a majority of voters.

It is all an illusion. This obviously manufactured enthusiasm for Harris as a presidential candidate is analogous to the manufactured wave of electoral support for a Harris-Walz ticket that will take shape behind the new “Blue Wall,” as Democratic mail-in votes will likely swell to at least 50 percent of total Democratic votes cast in the key swing states, if 2020 is any indication.

For better or worse, this means that the success of a Harris-Walz ticket will be more reflective of the efficiency of the Democrats’ mail-in ballot mobilization machine, and the political fetishes of the inhabitants of the left’s nonprofit and NGO world, than of rational citizens engaged in public acts of self-governance.

Republicans should therefore take some comfort in the fact that a Harris-Walz victory, if it occurs, will not be the result of a widespread repudiation of a Trump-Vance ticket, or a Republican policy agenda, but rather will reflect the peculiar dynamic of mass, mail-in voting, and the way it enables the rabidly partisan outside influencers who manage mail-in ballots in deep-blue urban areas and college towns to have an outsized influence on election results.

As long as what were sold to us as temporary emergency voting measures associated with the pandemic are allowed to remain in place, Republicans will be working against an implacable force that far outweighs the mythical “margin of fraud” that Republicans always took as an electoral fact of life as a result of urban government corruption.

Republicans who have thrown up their hands and adopted an “if you can’t beat them, join them” stance toward mass mail-in voting and ballot harvesting are likely to be dissuaded by the 2024 election results, which will be far more favorable to Democrats than they otherwise would be if voting norms returned to their pre-pandemic status.

The decadent accouterments of the pandemic, such as face masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates have disappeared just as rapidly as they originally burst on the scene, and with little resistance at this point.

The mass mail-in voting era deserves to be as short-lived as the draconian Covid-19 lockdown and vaccine mandate era, and Republicans should fight tooth and nail to dismantle the current mail-in voting regime.


William Doyle, Ph.D., is research director at The Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irving, Texas. He specializes in economic history and the private funding of American elections. Previously, he was associate professor and chair in the department of economics at the University of Dallas.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; ballots; cheating; mail; mailin; rigging; usps; voterfraud
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1 posted on 09/16/2024 10:07:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The RATS’ anonymous voter base. Nobody know who the hell is sending in these crap ballots.


2 posted on 09/16/2024 10:09:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (abc ! America's lower case far-left network.)
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To: All

Democrat voter fraud is in high gear.......globally.

Case in point.

Pres Reagan signed into law the 1986 Uniformed and
Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA):
<><>to protect a time-honored tradition of overseas voting
<><>to enhance US citizens abroad and U.S. military members’ right to vote
<><>yet, federal law doesn’t provide clear, commonsense rules
<><>for how overseas voters register to vote
<><>or how their votes are compiled and counted.
<><>ergo, states can make their own laws — even bad ones.

But in August, we learned that Democrats have gone global, committing $300,000 to register and influence 9 million overseas voters — even though the federal government says only 2.4 million legal voters live in other countries. That’s 6.4 million votes that Democrats want to find...that don’t exist. The group financing the efforts——Democrats Abroad—— told CBS News that the ballots are likely to favor Kamala Harris.

Contact the RNC
310 1st St SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 863-8500


3 posted on 09/16/2024 10:10:39 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: All

The Biden/Harris regime glad-handed illegals pouring over
the border, bringing crime and chaos to American communities.

Migrants are used in a prime Democrat election fraud.

How Democrat fraudsters plan to steal 2024 for Kamala:
Battleground America ^ | 7/10/24 | Tara Servatius
FR Posted on 7/11/2024, 8:06:56 AM by Babsig
Source —— Talk radio 989 WORD Greenville SC:
<><>they register illegals to vote at proliferating migrant centers,
<><>they get ballots mailed there (to “harvest” them later)
<><>most illegals dont even know they were registered to vote, and have already moved away.
<><>Dem fraudsters then use the mfg ballots to boost Harris into the WH.


The opportunities for voter fraud abound.
<><>early voting (before debates are held),
<><>ubiquitous mail-in ballots (even Obama originally opposed them),
<><>pervasive ballot harvesting
<><>reams of envelopes dumped anonymously in the middle of the night,
<><>non-citizens automatically registered to vote
<><>illegals given vote-enabling driver’s licenses,
<><>no ID necessary in various states,
<><>no real signature verification in various states,
<><>people voting from non-existent addresses,
<><>people voting in the wrong state,
<><>dead people voting
<><>and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum


4 posted on 09/16/2024 10:11:47 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

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5 posted on 09/16/2024 10:13:13 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Our current system of government hinges on voters who are unknown and mysterious, putting someone in office who isn’t really going to govern anything because all the decisions are made by unamed individuals who are mysterious and hidden. This system is known as “Our Democracy”.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 10:13:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: Liz
Why contact the RNC? What are they going to do about it?

They rather like the situation. They don’t have to put as much effort into losing elections.

7 posted on 09/16/2024 10:13:43 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: SeekAndFind

If it isn’t fraud, they wouldn’t need to use the US Mail.


8 posted on 09/16/2024 10:14:21 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The millions of illegal immigrants registered by motor-voter laws are the mother life of fraudulently harvested ballots … Dems cast the ballots en mass while the registered voters haven’t a clue.


9 posted on 09/16/2024 10:14:46 AM PDT by dodger
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To: ClearCase_guy

I agree with you 100%.


10 posted on 09/16/2024 10:15:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (abc ! America's lower case far-left network.)
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To: sjmjax

Contact whomever you prefer.


11 posted on 09/16/2024 10:15:56 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Supreme Court will need to step in. Institutionalized vote cheating is a civil rights violation and a denial of equal protection of the law. The Constituion does not give the states an unrestricted right to cheat.


12 posted on 09/16/2024 10:17:10 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: SeekAndFind
The problem is not "mass mail-in voting" per se; the problem is mass mail-out of unsolicited mail-in ballots to every street address on record.

-PJ

13 posted on 09/16/2024 10:18:32 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. I hope it happens. All DEM DC starting in 2025. Americans need it good and hard for their stupidity, apathy, and standing on the sidelines. I’ve made my peace. Let’s get it over with.


14 posted on 09/16/2024 10:21:34 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“A New Way Forward” has now given way to the new Democrat campaign motto: Bullets not Ballots (Balas no ballotas).


15 posted on 09/16/2024 10:21:53 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Pretty good article. Thanks for posting it.


16 posted on 09/16/2024 10:22:41 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: SeekAndFind
ALL of it brought to you by RINOs who hate MAGA so much that they are happy to allow hundreds of thousands of cheat-by-mail-in ballots with no signature verification in order to hand the election on a platter to the commies.

Republican-controlled state legislatures rolled over to accommodate unelected "election officials" in 2020 without any plan to verify the ID of the mail-ins.

Don't blame the Democrats.

RINOs are the lowest form of traitor scum there is.

17 posted on 09/16/2024 10:25:42 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Socon-Econ
The Supreme Court will need to step in.

It will be "no standing," same as it was in 2024.

There are two full-blown conservatives on SCOTUS. The other Rs have varying degrees of RINO in them.

18 posted on 09/16/2024 10:28:18 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: SeekAndFind

A perceptive analysis. Thanks for posting.


19 posted on 09/16/2024 10:31:18 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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20 posted on 09/16/2024 10:33:01 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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