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New poll confirms Republicans’ wariness of voting by mail

Why that should concern Republicans hoping to get out the vote.

Republican officials have been worried for weeks that President Trump is scaring his supporters (and theirs) away from voting by mail with his near-constant, baseless warnings that it will lead to widespread fraud.

Now we have solid evidence that Republicans are way less likely than Democrats to vote by mail in the fall. They would much rather vote in person.

A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds that while Democrats are split on whether they prefer to vote in person or by mail, 71 percent of Republicans say they prefer to vote in personwith 21 percent preferring to vote by mail and 9 percent preferring to drop off their ballot. Continue reading.

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