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Torillian on 07 December 2023
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Shtinamin_ said:
Torillian said:

I don't find it strange at all that the percentage was so much higher in 2020 as it was by far the easiest time I've ever had voting. I was in Michigan at the time and voting was a chore that took an hour or so and I felt like I was only informed on a couple races. In 2020 they opened up the ability for everybody to do voting by mail and it was amazing. So much more convenient and I got to sit there with the ballot and look up every single person to feel truly informed on my votes all the way down the ballot. I was so disappointed to see everything moved backwards after that towards more difficult and restrictive methods that will inevitably lead to more people not bothering. 

Im pretty sure people have been able to use absentee ballots and mail those in since the 1980's. Even in Michigan. Voting by mail has always been an option since the 80's with absentee ballots.

And I agree voting by mail was very nice, but it was weird when my aunt got three 2020 presidential ballots to fill out with her name on them. Thankfully she was a good citizen and filled out one. 

Also regarding the 2020 election who else was confused when the counters decided to end counting at like 10pm MST (midnight EST), when that has never been the case in any election before. Because I honestly was.

Absentee ballots have been a thing since the Civil War if I recall correctly, it's about ease of access in 2020. 

Here's an article on voting by mail. 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-absentee-voting-looked-like-in-all-50-states/

You see that giant spike at 2020? My understanding is that was caused by a combination of the pandemic scaring people to go in person and the changes different states made to make it easier for people to vote by mail. 

From the article: 

"And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest spikes in mail voting occurred in places that went the furthest to encourage mail voting (i.e., those that automatically sent every registered voter a ballot), especially those with little history of mail voting prior to 2020. These include New Jersey (where only 7 percent of voters voted by mail in 2016, but 86 percent did so in 2020), the District of Columbia (12 percent in 2016 versus 70 percent in 2020) and Vermont (17 percent in 2016 versus 72 percent in 2020)."

So in my world this increase in the voting percentage is understandable because of the pandemic and the increased ease of voting compared to previous years. What's the reason in your world? Based on the few other comments you've tossed in I can guess but I'm curious if you'll stop beating around the bush and just say "I don't believe the 2020 election results". 



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