(11-05-2020, 12:02 PM)mal234 Wrote:

(11-05-2020, 11:59 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: What difference does it make whether they used mail-in or voted in person? I don't think the number would be any different.

I wonder if there may have been some people out there who wanted to vote for him but maybe at the last minute opted not to. Maybe people like some older/higher risk people who decided not to go out due to COVID. (Or went out to a voting site, saw a long line and decided to go home). But maybe at that point it was also too late to do the  mail in ballot. He probably would have been better off encouraging his voters to vote any way they could, especially given the pandemic. We are seeing how mail in votes are making a difference right now. I do wonder how the numbers might have differed had Trump embraced the mail in voting more.

NC had drive up voting where folks could drive up to the voting place and a volunteer would get their info, get them their ballot and have it processed. All without the person getting out of their car. They also had drop boxes for mail-in/absentee in in case folks didn't want it to go through the mail.

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