Weird voting in New York State

 Vincent J. Curtis

13 Dec 20

New York is a state in decline.  It has been losing population for decades, and this trend has gotten worse under relentless Democrat rule.  New York City began a rapid and shocking decline under the mayoralty of Bill DeBlasio.  The pandemic caused a loss of population in this city of 8.5 million of an estimated 1.5 million.  Governor Andrew Cuomo famously caused the deaths of 35,000 people by sending old people infected with the corona virus back into nursing homes.  Trump sent New York a 1000 bed naval hospital ship and turned the Jacob Javits Center into a 2900 bed hospital, neither which Cuomo used.  In addition, Cuomo was forced to complement Trump on the latter’s rapid assistance given to New York.

In short, conditions were such that Trump might be able to increase his vote total but there was nothing on the Democrat side that would stir up excitement.  Native daughter Hillary Clinton was not running with the prospect of being the first woman president and a progressive to boot.  Instead, the Democrats ran with the oldest, whitest, most establishment man they could find, Joe Biden, who had no association with the state.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the reliably Democrat state with 4,556,124 votes as compared to Trump’s 2,819,534 votes.  In 2020, Trump increased his vote total to 3,171, 289, an increase of 12 percent.  However, Joe Biden received 5,009,506 votes, increasing the Democrat total by 10 percent.  Third party votes collapsed, from 285,000 in 2016 to 101,000 in 2020, a drop of 65 percent.

New York State is not renowned for voter fraud.  This year, however, New York experimented with mail-in balloting and the results in the primaries were disastrous.  The rejection rate was 25 percent, and results weren’t known for four to six weeks after Election Day.  As a result of the pandemic, mail-in ballots were sent to people who hadn’t resided at the address for months.  Ballots were undelivered all over the City.  Conditions were ripe for fraud, even though New York is reliably Democratic.  Fox News called New York State for the Democrats within seconds of the closing of the polls in both 2016 and 2020.

Strangely, the ballot rejection rate of the presidential election was small.  One would not expect the total ballots cast in 2020 to be higher than in 2016, but they were by a lot, 621,000 votes.  In a state with a declining population, with its major city in population exodus, and with a mail-in ballot that ought to have a high rejection rate.

I get that Trump can raise as much hostility as he does support, but we’re supposed to believe that he generated more hostility than support in New York, a state in chaos, where people have better things to do than go out of their way to register hostility towards Trump?

As in California, The Democrat’s majority in New York was not threatened by Trump increasing his vote total in 2020 over 2016.  There was no need for fraud to ensure Biden carried the state.  But Trump was more popular in New York in 2020 than in 2016, and yet the Democrat increased his vote total by even more than Trump did?  Hostility to Trump among Democrats indifferent in 2016 was such that they got out to vote against him in 2020?

That’s pretty weird.

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