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Democrats have huge edge in early mail-in voting with massive leads in number of ballots requested and leap among those who didn't vote in 2016
Daily Mail ^ | 9/11/2020 | Geoff Earle

Posted on 09/11/2020 11:12:32 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Democrats have begun running up a lopsided advantage in early voting as well as absentee ballot requests, in an election what has seen an unprecedented split on voting strategy and furious attacks by the president on mail-voting.

The advantage is pronounced in the battleground states that will decide the election, and that are attracting candidate visits and a TV air war.

The differential in absentee ballot requests has hit three-to-one in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, two states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 that Joe Biden is hoping to strip back.

The advantage in the Keystone state has extended to ballot requests by people who didn't vote in 2016. A total of 175,000 Democrats who skipped 2016 have asked for ballots, more than double the number of Republicans, Politico reported.

The Democratic lead in ballot requests in Florida – a state Trump carried where Biden is making a run and holding a slight lead in the polls – is 700,000.

A similar dynamic is playing out in Ohio, a state Trump carried that lies just outside the 'blue wall' of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that Democrats are focused on.

The Democratic advantage has carried over to key counties in Ohio, Statehouse News reported.

In strongly Republican Warren County, Republicans and Democrats are running about even in ballot requests. But Republicans accounted for three times as many requests four years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; mail; mailinvoting; voting
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To: marcusmaximus

Well noob this is a pointless post


61 posted on 09/11/2020 12:01:03 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Agreed. Us Republicans aren’t willing to take a chance with our vote not counting so we’re going to the polls in person.


62 posted on 09/11/2020 12:02:02 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: marcusmaximus

The strategies are going to come back and bite someone and we can’t be certain who.
More mail in votes get disqualified which creates danger for the democrats who are voting big by mail because that’s what their party told them they need to do.
Republicans are going to show up and vote in person which is great because those votes usually count. However, if we have an event like major storms on election day that could suppress in person voting.
I would also caution people that we continue to see polls showing Biden leads in some important States.
This is going to be an election in which trump supporters get out there and vote but we are also going to see a lot of democrats vote who did not like Hillary Clinton and stayed home last time.
Even before we discuss democrats cheating this election is far from in the bag for us.


63 posted on 09/11/2020 12:04:16 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Trumplican

Burned the mail-in ballot and the post card telling us how great it was to vote that way.


64 posted on 09/11/2020 12:04:32 PM PDT by madison10
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To: marcusmaximus

I wonder if the surge in non-2019 voters is planned vote harvesting.

Nah - They wouldn’t do that, would they? /sarc


65 posted on 09/11/2020 12:04:56 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: nbenyo

Don’t think so.


66 posted on 09/11/2020 12:05:07 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: WashingtonSource

You are mistaken republicans requested more mail in and absentee ballots in Florida last time this time democrats outnumber them by something like 6 or 700000.


67 posted on 09/11/2020 12:05:49 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Red Badger

How is it known what the party affiliation is of someone requesting a ballot?


68 posted on 09/11/2020 12:07:19 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: marcusmaximus

This sounds like absentee ballot requests, not mail in ballots. The difference in numbers may just be the number of dims scared away from physically going to the polls.


69 posted on 09/11/2020 12:11:53 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: marcusmaximus
Only a corrupt election system would have people voting this early, among other travesties like publishing the early vote count.
70 posted on 09/11/2020 12:14:14 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: gibsonguy
Name and address on voter registration?....... Just a guess..... 😁
71 posted on 09/11/2020 12:14:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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It’s the Daily Mail. They’re a liberal news site.


72 posted on 09/11/2020 12:19:02 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: marcusmaximus

Dumb question:
Suppose Biden strokes out completely and has to be replaced as the dem candidate. Just for grins we’ll call this new candidate “K”.
Would a mail-in vote for Biden count for “K”?
Why?


73 posted on 09/11/2020 12:22:23 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: pfflier

The difference in numbers may just be the number of dims scared away from physically going to the polls.”

The fact that this is true for multiple states makes me think you might be right. There have been many stories that indicate the rats will outnumber us in the mail voting by a lot which is consistent with this story. We need to vote in person, period.


74 posted on 09/11/2020 12:27:48 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: marcusmaximus

l8r


75 posted on 09/11/2020 12:28:02 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: marcusmaximus
Democrats are just going to flat-out steal the election via the "counting" of the mail-in ballots, and the GOP will of course roll over and accept the results. I can't even tell what the GOP plans campaigning on to win back the House and hold the Senate - my guess is they won't even try, which has been their default position since 2006.
76 posted on 09/11/2020 12:30:15 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (America has a DemocRat and RINO problem.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Biden promised no campaign commercials today (9/11). They are all over satellite TV here in AZ. Promises made. Promises NOT kept. Biden (D)


77 posted on 09/11/2020 12:30:45 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Red Badger

Ok so obviously we are talking about registered R or D’s versus a non declared requesting a ballots.


78 posted on 09/11/2020 12:33:58 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Trumplican

I enjoy going to the polls too.
I vote as early as I can and as often as I can.
I took my son when he was 6 to the polling booths to impress upon him the importance of voting.
He is more of a hard core conservative than I am now. Chides me for subscribing to Netflix and ordering from Amazon. I know,..... I’m weak.


79 posted on 09/11/2020 12:36:00 PM PDT by Auslander154 ("Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: gibsonguy

From the Daily Mail UK:


HOW THE STATES LINE UP

PENNSYLVANIA

Trump margin of victory: 44,000

Democratic lead in ballot requests from 2016 non-voters: Nearly 100,000

MICHIGAN

Margin of victory: 10,704

Democratic lead: 20,000

WISCONSIN

Margin of victory: 22,000

Democratic lead: 10,000

FLORIDA

Margin of victory: 112,911

Democratic lead in mail-in ballot requests: 700,000

GEORGIA

Margin of victory: 211,142

Republican lead in mail-in ballot requests: 211,141


Okay, who’s the guy in Georgia that didn’t?.................


80 posted on 09/11/2020 12:37:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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