“Cargo Cult”. This is shorthand for behaviors and beliefs that are maintained by societies based on tradition and word of mouth rather than some tested and verified body of knowledge.
Didn’t mean to call us a cult, just allowing that mailing limitations could hurt either side and the standard belief that it just hurts democrats could be off the mark.
Has the potential to benefit Trump in a battleground state. Gives everyone’s vote a chance to be counted.
Provided Trump hasn’t done anything stupid like repeatedly call into question the validity of mail in ballots and convince his base not to take advantage of it, that is…
if your ballot doesnt arrive in time for election day because youre irresponsible or because of widespread mail fraud or incompetence, or because youre too stupid to fill it out right
trashed
wait till 2024 or stop off at the polls on your way to walmart
Yeah,I’m using it a little loosely. My history with the term is not anthropological but rather from it’s adoption by the software world as shorthand for practices everybody swears are necessary or good but which nobody can really point to why.
To clarify my intended meaning I was saying that people’s jump to declare mail in voting extension benefits part X may just be repeating a belief rather than a measured phenomenon.