Hence why it’s a big strategic misstep. The pure mail-in states all send in ballots without asking and it’s easy to harvest them. Scaring their own constituents into believing that it’s dangerous to step outside the house to vote, and also killing off all the ground game to get them to turn in ballots, is backfiring.
I still don’t see this as good news for Republicans.
Is the author saying that only a massive wave of voters showing up to vote in person will deliver a Trump victory?
Maybe. But if something — widespread riots, or perhaps a failure of the power grids outside of major cities in a few swing states — causes a sharp decline in in person voting on Election Day, the left will have far less to worry about, because their votes will have already been cast.
In NC they send you a request form that you have to mail back to get a ballot. My daughter’s apartment was damaged in a storm. Her mail was trashed, soaked. In it were numerous ballot requests sent to former tenets. Considering the lease is annual, they were sending ballot requests to people who had not lived there for six or more years. Independents and Republicans are physically going to the polls. Many of those millions of ballot requests are going to the trash. It is obvious how the system could be abused. I could have mailed in those ballot requests, then voted for Trump on each of them. While this may happen, I do not believe it could change the State result if Trump supporters go to the polls.