absentee vote

When it comes to maximising the absentee vote, he says, "both sides do it".

“I think when the autopsies are written about 2022, the early vote and the absentee vote are going to be a huge part of it and something that our party really needs to embrace early on,” said Kristin Davison, a political adviser to Mr. Youngkin.

Nationally, former president Donald Trump and other Republican leaders have encouraged voters to avoid mail voting in favor of voting in person on Election Day, while lobbing unsubstantiated accusations about fraud tainting the absentee vote.

“People always ask me, ‘Well, why don’t you absentee vote?

In 2020, Trump and his allies claimed that reports of absentee vote totals from Milwaukee in the early morning the day after the election were a sign of fraud.