Some of you are no doubt wondering why Biden is doing so much better on the mail-in ballots than he did on the election day vote count. In Carbon County we encouraged Biden voters to use mail-in ballots. My friend René even made two movies for social media on how to vote by mail-in ballot in Carbon County, emphasizing the address of the one drop-off box at the Registrar’s office in Jim Thorpe.
We did this for two reasons. First, there were rumors that Trump supporters were planning to harass Biden voters at the polling places. There was some of that on election day, but probably not enough to deter Biden voters. The problem was that we did not know that ahead of time, so why take a chance that Trump thugs might make things uncomfortable.
Second, we were worried about Covid-19. I sent postage-paid applications for mail-in ballots to every Democrat in every senior living center I could find in the county, and I know from comments that many seniors took advantage of that. We kept stressing that people should act immediately because of postal delays.
The irony is that the Trump administration’s mail slowdown and the Trump supporters’ threats resulted in a huge mail-in ballot bulge, and that is what is being counted now, and that is why Biden keeps expanding his margin.
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