It’s worth considering as Trump rails against vote-by-mail as a scheme to steal his reelection that both parties lose some of the control on the levers of power they’ve gotten used to when voting becomes easier, especially for people who are only casually engaged or even disengaged from politics.
Votes postmarked as late as 8 p.m. primary day that arrive by the following Tuesday are valid, so New Jersey tallies won’t be final for a while. But if estimates by The Associated Press about the overall number cast are accurate, all signs point to a surge in turnout. In 2018, there were about 421,000 votes cast in the Democratic primary that nominated Sen. Bob Menendez. As of Thursday, more than 572,000 votes had been counted in Sen. Cory Booker’s primary and the AP estimates that’s 52 percent of the total cast.
In the 2nd District two years ago, Democrat Van Drew got just under 17,000 of the nearly 30,000 primary votes cast. By Thursday, Kennedy had more than 30,000 of the nearly 48,302 votes counted, which the AP estimated was 68 percent of the total cast.
It’s no secret that when campaigns talk about turnout, they don’t mean turning out as many people as possible. They mean turning out the people they believe will support them. If other people can’t be bothered, or don’t even know there’s a primary, that’s fine with a machine.
Voting by mail is not new in New Jersey. For more than a decade, the state has allowed people to request mail-in ballots without an excuse, and voters can even check a box asking that ballots be mailed automatically for every future election. Organizations have worked to encourage reliable Democratic supporters to do just that.
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