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Mail-in voting was first used on a wide scale in the election of 1864, in the midst of a bloody civil war. Upon being re-elected (not even a likely outcome for much of 1864), he told a crowd: 1/ https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1325945872828469248
“We cannot have free Government without elections, and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us... 2/
“What has occurred in this case must ever recur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good...” 3/
Those seeking to deny the validity of a practice we’ve had in place since the worst national crisis our country has faced surely have no claim to be the party of Lincoln. 4/4
