Vote by Mail in Wisconsin Helped a Liberal Candidate, Upending Old Theories

NY Times via Yahoo! News ^ | April 21, 2020 | by Reid J. Epstein

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The liberal candidate in Wisconsin’s hard-fought state Supreme Court race this month prevailed in voting by mail by a significant margin, upending years of study showing little advantage to either party when a state transitions from in-person to mail voting.

The gap suggests that Democrats were more organized and proactive in their vote-by-mail efforts in an election conducted under extraordinary circumstances, with voters forced to weigh the health risks of voting in person against the sometimes unreliable option of requesting and mailing in their ballots. Still, it is likely to add to the skepticism President Donald Trump and Republicans have expressed about mail voting, which they worry would increase Democratic turnout at Republicans’ expense.

The liberal jurist, Jill Karofsky, performed 10 percentage points better than her conservative opponent in votes cast by mail than she did in votes cast at Election Day polling places, a gap that powered a surprising 11-point victory overall in a state both parties view as crucial to winning November’s presidential election.

The voting data, collected by The New York Times from 27 Wisconsin municipalities that segregate ballots cast on Election Day from those sent by mail, shows that Karofsky’s advantage in mail ballots over the conservative incumbent, Justice Daniel Kelly, was consistent across communities of varying size, geography and partisan lean. In a state with little history of voting by mail, more than 1.1 million of 1.55 million votes cast came by mail.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[2banana]

Motor voter

No purge of voter rolls

No ID needed

Sanctuary city/state

Mail in ballots

Voter harvesting

[Steamburg]

It’s going to take far more lipstick than is found in this story to hide that pig!

[DesertRhino]

Effing criminals.

[dead]

The gap suggests that Democrats were more organized and proactive in their vote-by-mail efforts

Yeah, thanks New York Times, but I'll decide what the gap suggests.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Vote fraud.

[Varda]

Not just that, IT’S THE POSTAL WORKERS UNION.

They somehow find that military and conservative areas have slow mail delivery. It’s been done for decades.

[exDemMom]

The gap suggests that Democrats were more organized and proactive in their vote-by-mail efforts in an election conducted under extraordinary circumstances, with voters forced to weigh the health risks of voting in person against the sometimes unreliable option of requesting and mailing in their ballots.

So that's what they call massive organized fraud these days.

Even with pandemic, voting can still be done in person. And should be, with voter ID and vetting of voter rolls. Otherwise, we can never know what the actual will of the voters is.

[Geoffrey]

They keep finding mail in votes from 2016 at the Post Office, uncounted, undelivered. Millions in fact according to Tom Fitton & JW.

[tomkat]

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[Varda]

I received a blank application in the mail for absentee voting. It was supposedly from the Republican party (I live in a heavily red district). I wonder how many people fell for that.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Slimes is stunned that this helped a "liberal"???

VOTER FRAUD:A RAT PARTY SPECIALTY SINCE 1960

[IronJack]

Democrats were more organized and proactive in their vote-by-mail

Yeah, that's it. It's a matter of being proactive and better organized. Fraud and corruption had nothing to do with it.

[BraveMan]

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The U.S. Postal Service is investigating the failure to deliver at least 175, and possibly hundreds, of absentee ballots requested by voters in the village of Fox Point and other communities in Milwaukee County. The scrutiny comes as scores of voters across Wisconsin say they never received ballots requested long before Election Day.
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VOTE BY MAIL FAIL: SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF WISCONSIN ABSENTEE BALLOTS WERE NEVER DELIVERED