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Nate Silver ranks this as only “semi-interesting”, I guess because Nevada is less likely to be in play than some other swing states, but it strikes me that the Trump campaign have been very vocal and boisterous about what they claim is their superior ground game to the Biden campaign. But these figures suggest a gap…
This is semi-interesting.In Nevada, 1.4% of mail ballots so far required a signature cure, when the voter didn't sign the ballot or the sig didn't match the one on file.Dems have cured 51% of their rejected ballots so far, vs. 35% for Republicans.https://t.co/jxCrxz1urt
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US president Donald Trump said he’s preparing for legal challenges to the counting of mail and absentee votes in Pennsylvania. Speaking to reporters in Charlotte ahead of a rally in Hickory, North Carolina yesterday, Trump said ‘we’re going in the night of - as soon as the election is over - we’re going in with our lawyers.’ Trump has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court in recent days for not blocking the counting of late arriving ballots for days after election day.
We've been counting absentee ballots since the Civil War. And we will do it again, safely and securely, this year.
Trump’s campaign has really given up on the idea of persuading voters and is instead turning to the idea of suppressing voters. These manoeuvres to try to make it harder to get absentee ballots? This is especially shocking. I don’t know what Donald Trump has against soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are returning absentee ballots from abroad. Continue reading...

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