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It was the obvious: Mail-in votes favor Democrats. There were more available mail-in vote systems in 2020 due to covid.

Mail-in voting favoring democrats is well known, and is why the Republican party vilifies it and and anything that may be biased toward Democrat votes.

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Except, mail-in voting does not favor democrats. It was about even, and the GOP actually had an advantage in many states in both the mail-ins and the election day votes. This bit of folk wisdom is done. Republicans have embraced early voting, and it only made more GOP voters.

Ah yes, the well known fact that Democrats love using the mail more than Republicans.

Is this a joke? It's widely known by anyone paying attention that Democrats embraced mail-in voting much more aggressively than Republicans, especially in 2020.

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