In a lengthy jeremiad titled “Experts: GOP Botched Early-Voting Ground Game,” right wing political news aggregator RealClearPolitics quotes some “election integrity” douchebag’s morose surrender to the reality that banking votes early helps push campaigns over the top in tight races.
“Given that the rules are what they are, if you aren’t playing by the rules, you are conceding an advantage to your opponent,” said “Honest Election Project” founder Jason Snead, while likening the early vote to “performance-enhancing drugs” advantaging Dem campaigns. “Unless states ban these drugs, then everyone’s got to use them, or they’re just going to constantly be behind.”
Fortunately that message of “they ‘cheat’ so we have to ‘cheat’ too” is still lost on the Holy Orange God Emperor of MAGAmerica, who in his Tuesday night 2024 campaign launch speech said if reelected he would “immediately demand voter ID, same day voting [emphasis added], and only paper ballots,” be imposed on election systems, which we’re going to go ahead and assume that he won’t be encouraging his fans to vote early in either the primary or general elections.