Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I rarely have much sympathy for Trump but on the business of postal voting I do, not so much about fraudulent voting (he may have a point there but I have no idea to what extent that might be) but just asking the question why is it necessary? I understand it is an essential service for folk who find it physically impossible to get to a polling station for health reasons but we have neighbours who are perfectly capable of getting to the polling station yet still opt for a postal vote. Apart from sheer laziness what other reasons might there be?

Knowing Trump there must be some evidence that a greater proportion of Democrat voters rely on postal voting than Republicans otherwise he would be shooting himself in the foot surely?
I don't know for sure what the reasons are for people preferring a postal vote but my guess is that many (mainly Democrat supporting people) have memories of massive voting queues, missing ballots and defective voting machines (strangely mainly in Republican controlled states) and also know the extent of voter suppression that Trump has been trying to engineer - and want to get their vote into the system as soon as possible, so there is more chance it will be recorded and count!

That and people who for a range of reasons can't easily get to their polling station on election day.