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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:01PM (#11716874)
That doesn't explain Washington State, where the Democrats didn't use their state-provided primary at all (all of their primary delegates were allocated by a caucus you had to attend) and the Republicans did (though only one candidate is running now, so it doesn't really matter).

The Democrats made you physically get up on a Saturday and go, unless you had a valid excuse. Elections in Washington are by mail, so to vote in the Republican primary, you only had to walk to your mailbox.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by delecti on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:08PM (#11716946)
That's irrelevant, because the turnout in-person among Democrats isn't comparable to the turnout via mail of Republicans.
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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by debracleaver on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:24PM (#11717102)
vote-by-mail patters are changing, however, to be more representative of the electorate as a whole. i think it tended to skew more conservative in the past because the RNC invested considerable resources into VBM programs. the DNC has been a little later to the VBM process.
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