1. El auge del voto por correo como medida de seguridad sanitaria.
La crisis del COVID-19 obligó a los estados a expandir el acceso al voto por correo, permitiendo una participación récord en 2020 a pesar de las restricciones de movilidad.
- Mail-in voting became prevalent among dems in 2020 because of the pandemic. Well,were not in a pandemic anymore.
- Please understand that the pandemic allowed millions of people who were not usually able to vote by mail to do so in 2020, but not in 2024.
- Without mail-in voting,we could not have had an election in the middle of a pandemic.
2. La seguridad del rastro de papel frente a sistemas electrónicos.
Diversas opiniones sugieren que el uso masivo de boletas físicas durante la pandemia actuó como una salvaguarda contra posibles manipulaciones digitales o hackeos de máquinas de votación.
- The pandemic-level in 2020 of mail-in votes couldnt be hacked.
- The paper ballots due to pandemic saved us in 2020 imho. My red state allowed paper ballots for everyone then, and its harder to manipulate paper ballots than computer.
- 2020 was our most secure election because of the pandemic. Paper ballots and mail-in ballots ruled the day.
3. Controversias sobre la gestión del Servicio Postal (USPS).
El papel de Louis DeJoy y el desmantelamiento de infraestructura postal durante la pandemia generaron fuertes críticas sobre intentos de supresión del voto.
- He had fast sorting machines mothballed and dismantled and had mailboxes removed in areas that hrc won in 16. All during the pandemic, while mail in ballots would be popular.
- Us postal service head dejoy to step down after 5 years marked by pandemic, losses and cost cuts.
- Trump openly admitted to blocking funding for the u.s. Postal service in order to slow down the processing of mail-in ballots during the covid pandemic.
4. Comparativa de participación y el efecto de la inflación post-pandemia.
La transición de las elecciones de 2020 a las de 2024 muestra un cambio en la motivación del votante, pasando de la urgencia sanitaria al descontento económico.
- 2024 was a lot of global anti-incumbent backlash because people wanted to blame someone for the pandemic inflation.
- How in hell did nearly 3 more people vote during pandemic than in the 2024 election?? something stinks.
- Voters remained traumatized by the pandemic but couldnt actually pinpoint why because people forget pandemics quickly, but they still wanted their leaders to do ghost dance.
5. Cambios permanentes en la legislación electoral estatal.
Aunque muchas medidas fueron temporales, algunos estados han mantenido las reformas de la era pandémica, mientras otros han revertido el acceso al voto anticipado.
- The pandemic changed how we vote. These states are making the changes permanent. Source politico.
- A number of states made it harder to vote after easing voting regulations during the pandemic.
- Utah is the only republican-dominated state that mails a ballot to all voters, a system that republicans adopted before trump polarized the gop against mail voting during the pandemic.