The “elections” being held in this country these days make those held by dictators look honest. Amerika has taken banana republic style “elections” to a whole new level.
This is an argument you will never win, because as the official said, he was just giving voters another opportunity to cast their ballot.
You aren’t going to win an argument that starts with the premise that you want to keep democrats from casting their vote, in the hopes that fewer of them will show up.
No matter how ridiculous early voting is, they will always sell it as providing more opportunity for people to cast the votes they are entitled to. And since we wouldn’t object to those same people voting on election day, we lose the argument because we are arguing to make it harder for them to vote.
The alternative is for our side to find the same chances, and to do the same things. There apparently was nothing to prevent a solid republican district from setting up the same after-church absentee ballot opportunity.
Of course, since they only got 200 votes out of it, this isn’t really a cure for the loss we experienced.