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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much everyone in Utah votes by mail.  I read Republicans are actually more likely to vote by mail than other groups which have a mistrust of three mail.   This is just Trump trying to get attention in battleground states.[/quote]
Interesting.. I googled that, and it's true.

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/4/14/21215746/coronavirus-covid-19-utah-vote-by-mail-republican-democrat-election-2020-trump-nancy-pelosi

[quote]The Beehive State launched its universal vote-by-mail system in 2012 and remains one of the most reliably Republican states in the country.[/quote]

It seems to me that some Rs are trying really hard to justify not having mail in votes by saying it's being forced on people, which IMO, is a weak argument.  If you force people to go to a physical place while a pandemic is going on, that's also "forcing" people to endanger themselves.

[quote]Declining voter turnout was the problem Utah officials were trying to solve when they looked at expanding the existing program of sending absentee ballots to those who requested them to a universal vote by mail for everyone.

For decades, participation by eligible voters in Utah had been dropping and fell below the national average in 2000. Easing restrictions to absentee balloting and registration had modest effects on turnout in the ensuing years. In 2009, a state commission looking to shore up the sagging numbers explored vote by mail, which was well established in Oregon and Washington, as a possible solution. But[b] it wasn’t until Eliason sponsored legislation in 2012 allowing counties to voluntarily conduct elections by mail that the idea took hold in Utah. [/b]

“[b]The key difference between what we did and what’s trying to happen on the national scene is ours was voluntary,” said state Rep. Steve Eliason, a Republican who sponsored the state’s first vote-by-0mail legislation. “It wasn’t crammed down any political subdivision’s throat.”[/b][/quote][/quote]

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