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I honestly don't know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots. I would guess the majority of mail-in ballot users are established older adults, a demographic that usually leans more red. If the GOP is successful in stopping mail-in ballots, won't a higher percentage of their own voters be blocked from voting for the GOP?
First, republicans will still vote by mail, just like Trump himself does. Democrats think that they will somehow be embarrassed by the hypocrisy. Republicans don't care. They know it's just a tactic.
The point of all this anti mail-in ballots rhetoric is to give them control over the votes. It's just another reason they can use to discard some of them. They will have 0 issues applying some rules to votes from Democratic areas and ignoring those rules in Republican districts. It's hard for them to insert themselves in the vote counting process of in-person votes in Democratic districts and manipulate the results. With mail-in votes it's possible. This is what they are doing.
Mail-in ballots are their own paper trail. Not only can they not be fucked with, they can be used to demonstrate electronic fuckery in the rest of the same election.
Every mail-in ballot (and early vote) is much harder to account for and manipulate when it comes to fucking an election as a whole. And they've been doing this since electronic voting was a thing. If you haven't yet, you should definitely read Vanity Fair's The Path to Florida which is a dissection of the Bush v. Gore fight in Florida. Be sure to note the negative 16,000 votes in Volusia County.
It's not about actually stopping mail-in ballots. It's about gaining an advantage in other ways. If they lose in the courts, they will claim that mail-in ballots were illegitimate in areas where Dems won. If they win, they will say that Republican areas don't have the funds to change their voting method away from mail-in votes, so they get a reprieve. Also if they win, they hope to get access to voter lists in Dem areas to throw out votes.
As far as who votes by mail, that is a wash. In some states, EVERYONE votes by mail. Those states are both Republican and Democrat. In other states, the people who vote by mail can be anyone from old people, people who can't take off work, college kids who can't get back to their state to vote, military members, expats who live overseas, etc.
It looks like it's more-or-less a wash in historical data:
https://politicalscience.byu.edu/2020/08/28/do-republicans-or-democrats-benefit-from-mail-in-voting-it-turns-out-neither-three-decades-of-voting-history-reveals-vote-by-mail-does-not-give-either-party-an-edge/
You might be able to intimidate voters or pull some other stunts locally that you cna't do remotely.