1. FYI @smerconish the vote by mail rejections looks disproportionate bc certain demos ARE more likely to commit "simple" user errors that can cause their entire ballots to be cast disqualified- like sig match.

So the @DemocracyDocket's latest W in NC 🎇is BIG! 🎇We want sign.
2. match requirements overturned in every state and here is an imp point, if we had a normal Justice Dept- the one we are SUPPOSED to have- the one we've had since the 1960s anyway, it'd be leading that charge. The DOJ is normally an ally fighting to protect the sanctity of the
3. right of every single American who is legally eligible to vote, TO VOTE, not what Atty. Gen Bill Barr is using the DOJ to do which is to sue states and limit voter rights. And in 10 days- he plans to deploy a plan he's constructed w the Trump & RNC to suppress counting mail-ed
4. in ballots. They want to delay the arrival of mailed ballots by gumming up mail delivery schedules, which they've already done, and this is why it is baffling to me that @BarackObama pushed people specifically to this method of casting a ballot. That was the OLD PLAN, before
5. the whole of the Rep Party, including the sitting potus who controls the entire fed gov & a willing atty gen who is out making public statements affirming his personal belief that ballots cast by voters in expanded mail vote magically become invalid/fraudulent "things" that
6. cannot be counted. This amounts to millions of ballots in PA, MI, WI, NC, and other states that added mail balloting options for voters to avoid in-person voting during a deadly pandemic. As these accommodations were added they would have been used by voters from both parties,
7. bc Donald Trump believes that mail ballots "cost him the 2018 Midterms" (they simply took longer to count, and so the Blue Wave took longer to manifest- a fact I knew but forgot to prep my followers for & as I've mentioned, made it hard for me to convince anyone on
8. night that my large wave prediction in the House was, indeed, going to be right once ballots got counted. In Trump's brain, these ballots came from nowhere & are thus made up, fraudulent ballots. So he launched his personal war on mail balloting & the signal coming from him
9. has been so powerful that GOP voters have pulled away from vote by mail, even in FL, a state that has had vote by mail for years. Now polls indicate that mail ballots will be at least 60% Dem. And the GOP is intent on disqualifying them. Millions of them. Barr is using the DOJ
10. for THIS purpose. So not only are we missing the most imp protection of voting rights its actually been turned aggressively against them- at least if Barr is able to pull the trigger on his plan. For these reasons, many orgs have been pushing their voters to vote early
11. in-person, or to vote in-person on Election Day. Its also why a lot of the election indicator data we have now has become noisy to use for predictive purposes.
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