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?

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    in blue areas, polling stations are all over the place. in blue cities you have an option of dropping it a polling box like a mail box, or go to any polling station, i think some residents have been doing the community by having a polling area in thier house area, and some community center, libraries do the same.

    red states remove all these options. in blue area you can register right there and vote too. red states you have register in weeks or months in advance, plus they can purge whenever they can.