Push for Mail-In Ballots Favored Democratic Turn Out in 2020 Elections
Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin | April 13, 2021
But for the Covid pandemic and the subsequent push for mail-in ballots, and former President Donald Trump would have likely been reelected and Republicans may have even won back the House of Representatives and kept the U.S. Senate.
If the swing states of Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, whose total 43,000 vote swings favored President Joe Biden had gone the other way, it would have caused the Electoral College to be split 269 to 269 and sent the race for president the House of Representatives.
Across the country, absentee ballots favored Biden by a practical two to one margin. In two of the aforementioned states, Georgia and Arizona, it favored Biden by 65 to 34 percent and 52 to 47 percent, respectively, according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight.com. Data for Wisconsin was unavailable. But in Pennsylvania the margin via absentee ballots was 76 to 23 percent.
Trump won the in-person voting overwhelmingly. The lesson is Republicans prefer to vote in person, and Democrats apparently are more likely to vote by mail than they would otherwise in person….
(Excerpts from Daily Touch)