1/ So, with the "President" rage-tweeting about vote-by-mail (again!), it's important to remember that the conventional method of stealing elections is through voter suppression, not through voter or tabulation fraud.

2/ Think about it: in the Jim Crow South, whites didn't maintain racial dominance by stuffing ballot boxes or altering the results; they did it by preventing Blacks from voting through intimidation & suppression. And when Blacks started voting, they started winning elections.

3/ Actual voter fraud is exceedingly rare and inconsequential. Tabulation fraud (or hacking) is always a danger with electronic systems, but where there's a paper trail and random precinct audits, ultimately preventable.

But voter suppression is endemic.

4/ Combine voter suppression (onerous ID laws, registration obstacles, voter roll purges, polling place closures, etc) with gerrymandering and the undemocratic nature of the US Senate & the Electoral College, and you have the GOP strategy toward maintaining minority rule.

5/ This is why Trump sees vote-by-mail as such a threat. His only path to victory is to prevent enough Democrats from voting in enough swing states so as to eke out an Electoral College win in the face of a massive popular vote loss. Like in 2016.

6/ But with vote-by-mail, there are no long lines at the polling place because there are no polling places. There is no ID to show. There are weeks to challenge officials and request a ballot if you've been wrongly purged from the rolls. And there is ALWAYS A PAPER TRAIL.
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