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More Democrats are voting in person after Trump’s threats about mail ballots
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 22, 2026 6:00 a.m. EDT | Laura Meckler and Patrick Marley

Posted on 10/22/2026 5:43:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Data from this fall’s early balloting and interviews with officials and voters suggests Americans, particularly Democrats, are moving away from mailing ballots and toward in-person voting and drop boxes, following President Donald Trump’s relentless attack on voting by mail.

Requests for mail ballots are down compared with the last midterm election in six of eight states analyzed by Michael McDonald, a University of Florida professor who is the leading authority on early voting data. In Georgia, he found, requests for mail ballots are down 40 percent, while in-person early voting is “through the roof.”

In Wisconsin, mail voting is down compared with four years ago, but early in-person voting swelled on Tuesday, the first day it was offered. More than 55,000 people cast early ballots in person, a 65 percent increase compared with four years ago, state data shows.

And in Nevada, Democrats are shifting away from mail voting faster than Republicans. Eighteen percent of Democrats who have voted early in person this month used the mail in 2024; among Republicans, it was 10 percent, according to data analyzed by Zachary Donnini, head of data science at VoteHub, a nonpartisan political data media company.

“If you’re an MS NOW watcher, a CNN watcher, a high political engagement voter who consumes a lot of news, you saw so much about Trump trying to gut” the U.S. Postal Service, Donnini said. “They are saying, ‘I don’t trust the USPS to handle my ballot. I’m going to hand it over myself.’”

Nationally, more than 15 million people have already voted, including more than 5.6 million at in-person locations and about 9.7 million by mail, which includes drop boxes, according to McDonald’s tallies.

For a time, it was uncertain whether mail voting would...

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1 posted on 10/22/2026 5:43:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More idiotic BS from the TDS WSJ.


2 posted on 10/22/2026 5:47:06 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Without the New Black Panthers as guards there could be intimidation by white racists who think they also have the right to vote in person. Won’t let them do it.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=2ceecd03995af008&sxsrf=APpeQns_MxVR4jlePTWFTZtDosNeK6lm0Q:1792716974600&udm=2&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8c4u0nXx4bEIpwm1lnNH832QGGMdFXpDyzkQgEdtB8w9zZ67Faapx8wIWp8O3JpX8ZbooJTg6IC0i9eLmD380spMllksdFpgm79ImriDjfCnT5t_2mxGef8boiF2YBYg7dE96tFIu_beN-U_XUi3eiJXsBHL9U5FCz5EfTuLsvPLwUif3TkySFt2aPQlPsKNyJl_vZNQ&q=images+new+black+panthers+outside+polling+place&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2itCT986XAxVdhSsGHdRPBRYQtKgLegQIGhAB&biw=1316&bih=621&dpr=1.21


3 posted on 10/22/2026 5:58:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good, go in person to vote and show you’re ID. That’s all anyone asked for. If it takes a little effort to vote that’s good. It’s more likely that if you’re not informed you’ll vote for the Rat but it’s also more likely that you won’t wait in a 2 hour line to do it.


4 posted on 10/22/2026 6:24:22 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who had 'more commies are voting in person?


5 posted on 10/22/2026 6:34:32 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I can believe that the Demoncrats are getting their vote out early and in person, based on my own observation.

I went to early vote today (Columbus, Ohio) and the wait to get to the voting machine was over 30 minutes. There were the usual people outside handing out lists of for whom you should vote - a blue list and a red list from people in blue and red shirts. It seemed to me that there were a lot of people in line with the blue lists. Just an observation, but Republicans need to get all the Trump voters out to the polls or we are going to have the Demoncrats in charge of the House, the Senate and the governorship.

6 posted on 10/22/2026 6:39:42 PM PDT by BruceS
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Schadenfreude.

Well, at least Trump is making commie Dems do something less….commie fraudster.

Get rid of mail-it-in voting, the drop boxes (how is this much different from mail), and early voting. All crap almost none of us even heard of until 2010.


7 posted on 10/22/2026 6:58:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Libloather

I love it! Just wish I knew what track it is.


8 posted on 10/22/2026 6:58:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Libloather

Looks like it’s at least 1950 and more likely 1952.


9 posted on 10/22/2026 7:06:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Del Mar? Bunch of older pics here -

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/old-school-odds-and-results-chalk-board-at-del-mar-this-is-where-the-phrase-betting-on-the-chalk-meaning-betting-on—31947478577303156/


10 posted on 10/22/2026 7:10:25 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Ok, can’t look at Pinterest most of the time.

But wow, seems Vivace won a Greenwood Cap in 1954 which seems to have been Woodbine….quite a ways from Del Mar physically and monetarily!


11 posted on 10/22/2026 7:13:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pure copium, they are trying to wishcast hoping the voters show up on election day.


12 posted on 10/22/2026 7:23:46 PM PDT by Skwor
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
More Democrats are voting in person after Trump’s threats about mail ballots
Crap headline. Should read:
Fewer Democrats mailing fraudulent ballots

13 posted on 10/22/2026 7:37:05 PM PDT by nicollo (TrumpO beat the cheat! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re just voting twice.


14 posted on 10/22/2026 9:20:07 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Mailing it in and voting in person.


15 posted on 10/22/2026 9:22:14 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So they vote in person and then vote again with their mail in ballot. How convenient.


16 posted on 10/22/2026 9:53:46 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh PLEASE!

More Democrats are voting in person because in the last Midterms we were still coming out of COVID!


17 posted on 10/23/2026 2:13:53 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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Except that all the democrats who are there in the news when they show talaffreako look like they all come from À nursing home and the early voting lines are much younger folks , and much longer than normal ,, IYKYK


18 posted on 10/23/2026 3:26:34 AM PDT by Callnote (Stacking sats, don’t have time to explain, study it for your self !)
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To: BruceS
There were the usual people outside handing out lists of for whom you should vote - a blue list and a red list from people in blue and red shirts.

How is that allowed? It's clearly electioneering.

19 posted on 10/23/2026 4:44:16 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: gibsonguy

It may not be.

Donald Dems are why Deep State has to steal elections.

And they may be less likely to entrust their ballot to the USPS.

I know I bloody well won’t.


20 posted on 10/23/2026 4:51:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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