Texas Republicans have largely abandoned voting by mail, a stark departure from when GOP voters used to cast mail-in ballots at a higher rate than Democrats....
Rottinghaus said that GOP mail-in ballots are down in Fort Bend and Tarrant counties, but also in places where the party is trying to make additional inroads.
He added a primary reason for the GOP drop in voting by mail is that the process is no longer in vogue with many Republicans. “I was poll greeting over the weekend in Keller and I talked to a lady that came up there to spoil her mail-in ballot. She wanted to vote in person to protect against voter fraud,” Bradford said. “Voting by mail is still a right afforded to those who can’t get to the polls. If they can’t get to the polls, then, yeah, vote by mail. If mail-in voting is an option for me, it would be a last resort of voting.
As of Wednesday, Republicans in Collin County had returned 4,765 mail ballots, compared to 3,102 for the Democratic primary. In 2018 Republicans had 5,615 mail-in ballots for the same period, compared to 2,812 for the Democrats. “We’ve spent the last two years hearing President Trump and some other Republicans say that of all the methods of voting, mail ballots are the least secure,” Ryan said. “After hearing that message for at least the last few years, you’re now seeing that there are Republicans that are probably opting to use a different method to vote this election.”
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