...such as this one.
It was because they were more effective at ballot harvesting. They put drop boxes in Protestant churches, and had church elders help parishioners fill out the ballots, and then take them in person to ensure they were counted.
Here is some more on the strategy, but alas it is a podcast: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ep-1269-THIS-Is-The-Ballot-Harvesting-Strategy-That-Will-CRUSH-The-Dems-in-2024-Podcast/B0BMN8G4R6
Podcaster oversells the tactic, as in places where ballot harvesting is illegal but still done by the Democrats, there is no effective answer yet that I am aware of for the GOP to respond.
The election of 1876 had so much fraud in it that both sides participated in, that it resulted in the Compromise of 1876 because the whole thing was a mess.
We had a period in this country with reasonably clean elections. With punch hole voting card machines and some limited reforms from the late 1960s (the 1968 Dem convention in Chicago was a spur to many of these reforms), such as voter roles on record and eliminating same day registration. The result was that all it took was 3-4% of Democrats voting for Reagan and he wins a 49 state landslide.
Ever wonder why we don't have landslide elections anymore? Even 2008 wasn't a landslide. Last "landslide" election was 1994 and the GOP taking Congress. It's not the voters, it's the voting systems. These landslides were all prior to electronic voting machines in 2000s and onwards. Coming out of the Dems losing FL in 2000, both parties pushed electronic voting machines, which are now everywhere, with the obvious consequences.
Interesting comment.
I think that massive mail in ballots allows for much more fraud than was ever capable of taking place before.
They can keep finding new ballots and delivering them for weeks after election day. There's no accountability. No audit trail. No tracking of where those ballots have been or who possessed them or who filled them out or who took over custody, disposed of them, delivered them, etc.
The CIA stole the Egyptian election early on in Obozo's presidency and stole the Ukraine election in 2014. I think they had plenty of practice testing their election stealing methods in other nations. Then once perfected utilize those same election rigging methods here in the USA.
Remember that redistricting occurred between 2020 and 2022. That likely plays some part in many seats flipping.
They were still +4 or +5 Dem districts. In short, the better cheaters win.