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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/simonwdc/status/1585092394134908929?s=46&t=11LV9vZ_J9XPQw9E88z6Lw[/twitter][/quote]

I guess that's interesting, but in 2018 it had not yet become Republican orthodoxy that any kind of voting other than election day in-person voting was evil and fraudulent.  [/quote]
I think it had. They had been smearing mail in ballots and early voting for quite a while by 2018.[/quote]

Really?  I didn't hear it until 2020, but maybe I missed it.[/quote]

DP here.  This was just one of many complaints about mail-in and provisional ballot counting.  Before March 2020, mail-in voting was only a minor grievance and the Republicans were already trying to discourage and eliminate mail-in voting. They wanted proof that the voter would be out of the state to get a mail-in ballot, etc.  Then the pandemic hit and it became a major political battle.  That's when you heard about it.  Before that, it was more of a page 6 type complaint.  Then in 2020, it became front page news.

[url]https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/california-2018-midterm-elections-results-voting-republicans-1031072[/url]

[quote]By CARLA MARINUCCI
11/29/2018 07:40 PM EST

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Ryan’s comments about a state’s elections process put him in league with some prominent California Republicans who have recently expressed befuddlement — and anger — about the series of GOP incumbents whose defeats came after officials completed the tallies of millions of absentee and provisional ballots.[/quote]
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I’m the PP who said the mail in vote obsession predates 2018 and I’ve got the kind of relatives who have viewed absentee and mail in and early voting with deep disgust and anger (which is pretty much how they approach everything in their lives). [/quote]

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