I doubt red states will restrict mail voting. Several red states pioneered the practice, and despite the partisan divide this year, Republicans have traditionally enjoyed voting by mail. Utah conducts all-mail elections! Most GOP’s voters won’t want a benefit taken from them.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1325479893258342400
As @daveweigel notes, it would be EXTREMELY easy to fix the problems that arose from mail voting this year: count ballots early and establish a grace period for late-arriving ballots. Many states already do this. Time for the rest (ahem, PA) to get on board.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1325480314077110272
Also: mail voting is significantly cheaper than in-person voting. It costs states way more money to open (and staff) polling places than it does to mail out ballots. The red states that have adopted mail voting won’t want to jack up the costs of their elections again.
When the smoke from Trump’s bullshit clears, states that expanded mail voting in 2020 are going to discover that it worked really well: easier, cheaper, popular, safe, and reliable. There’s no going back.
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