Expanded Access To Voting Yielded Huge Turnout. Will States Take It Away?

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In 2020, nearly every state did something to make voting easier. Those changes helped propel the U.S. to its highest turnout election in more than 100 years. Soon, state governments will decide which of those changes to keep — and which to scrap.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Rules Committee, which has jurisdiction on the rules for federal elections.Susan Walsh/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

When Morrell was overseeing elections in Utah's Weber County, it offered what was going to be a onetime, all-mail election to decide a"People were surprised at turnout, I do remember that," said Morrell, now an elections consultant. "Voters were saying, 'You mailed me a ballot over the summer! Why didn't I get one now?'"Morrell said."There were enough calls that we took note. It wasn't just a few calls."

 

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“A republic, if you can keep it”

Republicans already said, more votes less Republicans elected. So Republicans will go back to massive gerrymandering districts and Voter Suppression. It will be ugly come 2 years.

Be sure to scrap all the changes that enabled the Dems to steal the election. Get rid of mail in voting designed to enable fraud. Voter ID is a must - it disenfranchise no one. The 2020 election had us on the verge of a civil war. Fix the problems or the country is done.

Republican, the republican states will take it away. This is a consistent theme of the gop for decades, to make voting harder for certain people.

it’s should be as easy as possible in every single election in all of america.

She is one Democrat I hate. She is as phony as they come !

Fraud didnt hurt too

As Freudian JoeBiden once said, 'We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics'

So happy to see the highest voter turnout in many decades!

When this is over, the full extent of voter fraud will shock the nation. I predict we will return to in-person voting of mail-in w substantial verification.

They didn't do anything for the highest voter turnout, all they did was to point out the biggest fraud ever committed in this country.

Why are taxpayers paying for this propaganda

Everyone knows wide spread mail in ballots are extremely prone to cheating and fraud and that's why they used COVID 19 to promote this - after all fair and free elections are not as important in a democratic society as getting rid of big bad orange man using any means possible.

You can bet the red States will...🗑️

All Government or fraudulent to me. When it comes to🗳 it’s nothing but lies. You mean you’re happy with storing the Countries wealth and Security info online. Because it makes business easier. But every time it comes to🗳 it’s fuel by potential fraud. With no evidence.

They managed to have more dead people vote than ever before. And the new computers allowed them to guarantee a win for their favorite candidates by padding the results. Genius!!

A lot changes were made in a period less than 6 months. We had recomd level of vote, record level of mail in.. This is why I think we should do audits. A lot of processes are manual & subjective (does a signature match enough). Identify issues and fix for next election.

Defund NPR for its partisan views

KEEP DROP-OFF VOTING. We’ve voted this way exclusively for decades, in Oregon, and it’s excellent. Drop-off in you’re mailbox, or, if you prefer, in a drop-box or even the elections office itself.

Why wouldn’t we make voting easier, safer, fairer & more secure? Tell us Republicans.

Georgia will vote out both Red Crooks and Trump will always be the victim...never admitting just another defeat/failure because his reality is like that of many lawless types.

Pennsylvania: 1.8 million ballots mailed out but 2.5 million returned? FRAUD

Expanded Access To Voting Yielded Huge Turnout. Will States Take It Away?

Why would any state in any democracy take steps to scrap any measure that enabled more people to vote 🤷🏻‍♀️👀🤣

Oh yeah, about that “turnout”....Amazing that Pennsylvania sent out 1.8 million mail-in ballots and got 2.5 million back, don’t you think? But there’s no reason to doubt the integrity of the results...unless you can add.

Keep them all. And expand on them. It’s simple. Let everyone vote, let every vote count. Better yet like Australia make voting mandatory?

Pretty sure red states will make it even MORE difficult to vote

A business colleague said 'we have to stop mailin ballots. If we continue to let those people vote, a republican will never win' yep... 'those people' in 2020!

Leigh29UF The biggest challenge will be convincing the public that future elections will be secure and dispelling rumors.

Yielded huge fraud

NPR is lying to you. This is what the Russians experienced in the Soviet era. Intellectuals knew the state was lying. But, they went along with the lies. Dont be that person. Liberals end up against the wall or re-educated. One can NEVER be Woke Enough.

This election was NOT a success!

Depends on the state.

Make 👏🏼 It 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 National 👏🏼 Holday👏🏼

You mean it helped expand the voting fraud!

Cope

I guess mail in ballots undercut voter suppression. if you can’t threaten a Black voter standing in line, kind of hard to suppress their vote. Fact: The only fraud we’re seeing is being peddled by Trump in ballrooms and landscape companies instead of in a courtroom.

Rethuglikkkans will do their best to restrict voting.

They were able to send out the census by mail and everyone had the option to return it by mail or go online and complete it. Simple and easy, voting should be no different. It should not be hard or time consuming to cast a vote for cryin out loud.

Listen to the first segment of this CPRNews piece for good information on making voting easier and more equitable for everyone in all states. (Spoiler alert: it involves 100% mail in voting... safe, secure and saves money!)

propaganda Turnout was so high in fact, each of 5 major cities in swing states received nearly 1 million MORE mail ballots than they sent out. Many of those ballots were sent to 'home' addresses such as thousands to Trader Joes or shopping Malls. Our ancestors bled for this?

A majority of gop led states will scrap greater ballot access.

Proud of how many Americans turned out to vote. Even the dead ones. Very patriotic.

Republicans will try their best!! Lol

Every state run by republicans are about to put voter id laws in place. No one trusts this election. Good job trying to gaslight about how mail in ballots are great for democracy. (I have two unsolicited ballot requests for previous owners from 10 years ago right now.)

Make it easier for people to vote, allow more voter turnout Can't have that !!!!

Thanks, John Lewis.

They did such a good job that Pennsylvania sent out 1.8 million absentee ballots and got 2.5 million back.

The huge turn out was due to who was running. Who did you hate the most

Keep them all and expand it. Automatic registration for any legal adult should be the law of the land. Early, mail in and drop off voting should be the norm.

Mail in voting like Oregon has works. I live here.

If anyone out there truly believes that the American election was not/has not been tampered with. Its time to go outside

This step has Republicans quivering in their pants. We need to make voting a national holiday and allow for votes to be cast by mail paper ballot in every state. None of this nonsense about using a voting machine that can be easily hacked.

More voting is good. Everyone deserves a vote.

Fraud! Unless we’re talking about the states Trump won and then it was a perfect election... 😂

Democracy is Beautiful! 🇺🇸

I suspect throwing Trump out or protecting him, depending on your point of view, had a lot to do with the turnout.

ParlerFirst

They enabled massive fraud. It was shameful

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