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Carl Marlinga: “In this last cycle, everybody in the Democratic Party was…”

Featuring: Carl Marlinga, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 10

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And Democrats tend to be the older voters and the voters who tend to vote by absentee ballot. And therefore, in any election cycle, the majority of the absentee ballots would be democratic. And In this last cycle, everybody in the Democratic Party was urging people to get their votes in and get them in early by going to absentee ballots wherever they could. And so that process was heightened then in the last election. And so all you saw is just a natural occurring thing where the later ballots tend to favor one party over the other. (14:00–14:11)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party urged early voting through absentee ballots in the last election cycle.

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