Eight Percent of voters who used absentee or mail-in ballots in 2020 admit they were paid or rewarded for voting, Survey

According to PEW Research 46% of American voters in November 2020 voted by absentee or mail-in ballots (58% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans). A new Rasmussen survey has 30% of American voters claiming they voted by absentee or mail-in ballots in that election (36% of Biden voters and 23% of those who voted for Trump). Besides Democrats, young people, blacks, Hispanics, liberals, people living in major cities, and those who voted for Biden used absentee or mail-in ballots to vote at much other rates than others. But both Democrat and Republican voters say that they were compensated for voting.

But what is most interesting about the Rasmussen survey is the large number of those who voted by absentee or mail-in ballots who admit that they voted illegally. Of those who voted by absentee or mail-in ballots, 8% were paid or rewarded for voting (9% of those who voted for Biden and 6% of those who voted for Trump). So this means that 3.24% of Biden voters say that they were paid to vote and 1.38% of Trump voters, a difference of 1.86 percentage points. There are four states that Biden won where the election was determined by less than 1.86 percentage points: Georgia (0.2 percentage points), Arizona (0.6 percentage points), Wisconsin (0.6 percentage points), and Pennsylvania (0.7 percentage points). The closest Trump victory was in North Carolina, where he won by 1.4 percentage points. If Trump had won 38 more electoral votes to get to 270, he would have won the presidency. and winning Arizona, Pennsylvania, and either Georgia or Wisconsin would have given him the victory.

Was one reason for the high voter turnout in among young people due to them being paid to vote?

Also interesting is that only 2% of the likely voters who say that they wouldn’t vote if their state banned mail-in ballots for 2024.