I see this come up a lot in discussions about voting in America. Postal votes disproportionately go to Democrats, hence the Democrats want to expand postal voting while Republicans want to restrict it (and insist there is totally a bunch of fraud going on).
I’ve googled with a few search engines and haven’t found a convincing reason. Lots of evidence that the skew is real, but no explanation as to why. Indeed, if one just looks at demographics, one would expect postal voting to benefit Republicans by facilitating votes from people in the countryside who live far away from voting centers.
So what actually gives?
its because poastal is harder to RIG and suppress than in person voting. gop controlled areas use voter machines that are often rigged. its also hard to voter suppress since closing polling stations, removing times and place likely doesnt affect how much votes get counted. thats why the GOP has to use things like voter purges, voter deregistration, voter ID(which is voter disenfranchisement to be honest) and the most recent tactic in the 2024 election, immediately STOP counting the votes.
Regarding rigging voting machines, that’s conspiracy theory territory, however you did miss that Democrats are more likely to be working jobs where you can’t easily take time off to vote, or it’s that or lunch, or the time they give you isn’t enough, so doing it in advance by post is pretty much the only way you can vote.
Except where attempts are doucmented: https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2025/10/15/fulton-county-fined-for-allowing-access-to-voting-machine-2020-election/
Did get them in trouble though and the voting machines in question had to be removed. And the county got a fine. Also weird that it’s a republican stronghold that let a 3rd party into their voting machines.
I’ve got a bridge I could sell you that would look marvelous next to that tin foil cap you’re wearing.
Why don’t we have schematics and source code for the voting machines?
As much as R complains about it… “Every accusation is a confession” rings VERY true here, especially when Trump called Georgia to “find votes” lmao.
https://youtu.be/oGbeA7Nrtic