Mail-It-In Doug

Almost all Republican voters who chose Doug Mastriano as their gubernatorial candidate in the May 17 primary voted in person. Only 13,383 votes out of 380,798 cast for Mastriano used mail-in ballots. That's 3 out of 100. Meanwhile, 386,314‬ of 788,288 Democratic voters who cast a ballot for Josh Shapiro did so by mailing in. (Those results were as of 10:45 p.m. on Election Night.)

Be careful what you say, Doug – someone may record it. Mastriano claims he wants to get rid of voting by mail if he's elected governor. But he voted for universal mail balloting just three years ago .

More recently, in a campaign statement in January, Mastriano wrote that Pennsylvania Democrats "hijacked" the 2019 law, the same law Mastriano voted for twice.

As is so often the case with Republicans, Mastriano found a way to pass the buck, this time on the question of mail-in voting. And as is also so often the case, he passed it to Democrats. Using the pretext of COVID, Pennsylvania Democrats made their move to hijack Act 77 … Mastriano wrote.

Never mind that historically, Republicans have used mail-in voting more heavily than Democrats. What appears to be bugging Mr. Mastriano (and his mentor Mr. Trump) is the fact that Dems have learned to use if effectively, and have won thereby.