{"id":1740618,"date":"2022-11-16T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740618"},"modified":"2022-11-16T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:32:31","slug":"gen-z-can-do-everything-from-home-if-that-becomes-the-voting-norm-theres-no-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-z-can-do-everything-from-home-if-that-becomes-the-voting-norm-theres-no-going-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z Can Do Everything From Home. If That Becomes The Voting Norm, There\u2019s No Going Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgen-z-can-do-everything-from-home-if-that-becomes-the-voting-norm-theres-no-going-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans have raised a host of legitimate concerns about the push to turn Election Day into election month and do away with the in-person voting model for a weeks-long process of disseminating and collecting votes by mail. Mass mail-in balloting increases the opportunities for fraud and ballot curing and harvesting, and it contributes to the ballot-counting fiascos we see in places like Arizona, delaying the determination of winners and undermining voter confidence. But there\u2019s another, under-discussed consequence of the push for a permanent mail-in voting infrastructure: Gen Z is coming of age without knowing anything else. <\/p>\n<p>As renting a movie evolved from driving to a Blockbuster, to ordering a Netflix DVD in the mail, to instantaneously streaming anything we want, we\u2019ve grown up. We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chargedretail.co.uk\/2021\/09\/23\/54-of-gen-z-say-theyll-shop-entirely-online-in-next-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shop<\/a> from our phones, and our purchases are influenced by social media. We take Prime two-day delivery and pre-printed return labels for granted. Even online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1284828\/us-food-subscriptions-generation-z\/#:~:text=The%20food%20subscription%20market%20in,include%20Candy%20Club%20and%20Grubhub%2B.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grocery shopping<\/a> subscriptions have taken hold, fueled by but outlasting the Covid lockdowns. We gravitate toward the convenience of working from home. Many of us can renew our driver\u2019s licenses <a href=\"https:\/\/hip2save.com\/tips\/states-let-you-renew-your-drivers-license-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is the lifestyle and attitude Gen Z brings to voting. It\u2019s already typical for many young people to cast their first few ballots absentee, if they start voting while they\u2019re in college. Gen Z voters who voted for the first time (or their first time post-college) in 2020 may have never cast a vote in person, thanks to the mass mail-in ballot operations that were shoved through under the guise of Covid concern. Republicans need to understand that if Gen Z comes to see mass voting by mail for any reason as normal, it will be next to impossible to go back.<\/p>\n<p>Research in 2020 by The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/04\/opinion\/coronavirus-vote-by-mail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analyzed<\/a> the all-mail voting system in Colorado, in which all potential voters were mailed their ballots and could simply mail their completed ballots back, leave them in a drop box, or show up at the polls to cast them in person. The Times found that all-mail voting increased turnout overall, but particularly among young voters, where \u201cturnout increases by 16 percentage points.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That turnout increase is not a surprise, as having a ballot mailed to you eliminates a lot of the already-minimal initiative and ownership required for an able-bodied American to get himself to the polls on Election Day. If the state mails you a ballot unprompted, a Democrat ballot chaser calls you or knocks on your door, hounds you to fill it out, and offers to drop it off for you (and even offers you a voting guide!), then suddenly your ownership of your own ballot is close to zero \u2014 you\u2019re a cog in Democrats\u2019 voting machine, and they like it that way.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, also, Democrats \u2014 who have long capitalized on massive, month-long \u201cget out the vote\u201d operations while Republicans are still trying to win on Election Day alone \u2014 have a cushy surplus of votes. While the prevailing corporate media narrative <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gEnUP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insists<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Republicans in office ever want to go back to Election Day as they know it, they&#8217;d better work now to make sure Gen Z knows &#8216;Election Day&#8217; at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1740621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}