Mail-in voting is as old as the Civil War, but of course, back then, you needed an excuse to avoid Election Day furor. As liberal states and progressive organizations began a concerted effort to push state legislatures to allow no-excuse mail-in voting, so did efforts to create robust voter contact operations that would allow Democrats to make frequent contact with mail-in voters to ensure that their ballot is banked into the system in a process called “ballot chasing.” The result was a huge advantage over Republicans in pre-Election Day voting. In 2022, Republicans captured a mere 33.8 percent of early votes, the percentage drops when you look at strictly mail-in ballots.
Twenty-eight states and Washington D.C. allow absentee voting without an excuse, and with about 25 percent of voters in the 2016 Presidential Election voting by mail, Democrats and their donors reacted to the…
