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  • Let me show you an example. Let’s use easy ratios for easy numbers, so let’s say people vote Democrat to Republican 3:2.

    If you have 100 people vote, you’ll end up with 60 democratic votes, 40 Republican.

    If you have 200 people vote, you’ll have 120 Democrat votes, 80 Republican.

    Increasing the number of total voters in this scenario will never change the outcome. 400 people? 240 to 160.

    The only way getting more votes by mail will help Democrats win an election is if the ratio of Democrat to Republican voters is higher in mail-in voters compared to other population groups.

    Or are you suggesting Democrats are less reliable voters, so getting them to vote increases the relative percentage of Democrat voters?


  • This explanation doesn’t make sense mathematically, though. If the ratio of Democrat to Republican voters is fairly consistent amongst groups, increasing the number of people in any given group that votes will result in that same ratio, just with greater numbers. Saying otherwise is like saying you can add 2% milk to 2% milk to eventually get back to whole milk

    The only way voting by mail helps Democrats is if the vote by mail crowd has a heavier democratic skew.










  • Mate, I may or may not be qualified to diagnose anyone and don’t know this person intimately, but they’re giving off serious cluster B vibes. You can’t argue logic with a cluster B personality that doesn’t want to hear it. There’s the world we live in and there’s the world they fabricate, and the harder you push them toward reality, the deeper they delve into their denial of it.