I understand a general cynical attitude towards voting but not the idea that absentee voting is somehow less effective, what?
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Replying to @atonal440 @arthur_affect
In 2004 a bunch of absentee ballots hadn't even been opened in Ohio before Kerry conceded
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @atonal440
I mean, if they would have been less than the margin of victory that makes sense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @atonal440
I seem to recall it was an arguably fairly prodigious number
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And if anything the seriousness with which absentee ballots are treated between then and now has only gotten worse in most of this country
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Since then it's only become easier to vote absentee and early voting has been introduced in many states.
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Replying to @atonal440 @Nymphomachy
Yeah at this point multiple states have vote-by-mail as the default
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Replying to @arthur_affect @atonal440
and yet we're still seeing a lot of elections called before anybody even cracks them open
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @atonal440
Well, again, if the votes that are already in have a margin of victory too large for the absentee ballots to make any difference, that makes sense
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Although I think you may be confusing absentee ballots with provisional ballots
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Like, this is an issue for sending in absentee ballots late Whereas in states where vote-by-mail is common a lot of them come in early
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