Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that President Trump should not concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election in part because Republicans will “never” be able to elect anoth…
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I personally like mail-in voting, but there for sure should be measures put in place to ensure it's very difficult to perform any kind of voter fraud with that system.
California has a difficult to duplicate water mark on their ballots as a start. Then of course there's the signature authentication on the envelope. And if you try to show up to vote in person, you are given a "provisional ballot" that also gets put into an envelope and signed, then gets set aside to be counted at a later date to ensure you did not also send in your mail-in ballot. Though surrendering your mail-in ballot might also allow you to use a normal ballot, but at the same time, if you bothered to go all the way to the polling location with your mail-in ballot, they do have a drop box specifically for those at polling locations along with other city and county buildings.
Or, if we still feel mail-in creates too much of a risk (even though up until this election, the instances of voter fraud by mail were insignificant and members of our military voted absentee all the time for many decades now) then can we allow more early voting? And have it all weekend before election day.
The biggest reason the democratic party is interested in making it easier to vote is because they believe they have the numbers advantage if the working class that has difficulty taking even a small bit of time off on a Tuesday to go vote has options that don't conflict with their work schedule. Continuing to make voting that little bit more challenging for the working class tends to favor republicans, who have the tendency to show up in consistent numbers every election. But it's the democrats who have proven to be more fickle, and if they aren't particularly motivated by their candidate (as was the case with Clinton 4 years ago), many of them just don't bother expending the energy to vote.
Also given that democrats tend to much more easily fracture within their ranks than republicans, you will see this pattern repeat quite often. Republicans are very good at rallying around a set of core ideals, whereas with democrats, they're always coming up with a new set of goals, but not everyone in the party wants to go along with parts of that. There's a lot more in-fighting and if one side doesn't get their way, some of them get apathetic and don't bother showing up at the polls.
I suspect that if Biden decides to run again instead of committing to being a 1 term president and then allowing the primary process to select a different candidate to run in 4 years, I don't think a Biden presidency is going to be exciting enough for the average younger, more progressive voter to really want to turn up to vote for him again. The main reason so many were fired up this time was more of a vote against Trump than it was a vote for Biden, such is how divisive a character he is. With that said, I think if Biden runs for re-election, I think he loses, unless the republican candidate is as equally polarizing as Trump and it motivates the left to come out to vote against the republican candidate once more.