The dems are playing to a longer end game.
The Holy Grail that they are looking for is to find a basis for enacting online voting. In that way, they will just have downloadable voting apps, maybe just a picture of the candidate (as in McDonalds they have pictures of the meal items on the cash register with buttons for those workers who cannot read or recognize numbers.) Online voting will bring the entire population of people who are uninformed and unmotivated into the process. In other words it favors democrats who would not walk across the street to vote on a sunny day but will text in a number to vote or whatever. I can guarantee ya that 99.9% of those who say they are terrified of going out to vote due to covid will be going out to Target or Walmart this weekend just fine, and many will hit the liquor store to get a little sumpin-sumpin. They will have to flash an ID to get it. The very same ID that dems allege that none of them have if it were needed for voting.
It's a tricky balancing act this time around. Ideally they can continue to create total chaos at ballot time which will give them the pucker power needed to adopt online voting if they are elected. On the other hand, they have to be careful that the chaos does not result in Trump being elected. No siree. That would not be the desired outcome.
They need to be careful about outsmarting themselves.
Trump also is starting to wonder and talking two different games a little. He has started to get wind in his nostrils that this mail in voting may favor him.
We don't know. We do know that the dems will impact the structure of the process in the name of improving it, and it will result in a total mess. Look no further than all their cities for that. There is a limit to the number of "improvements" by dems that any system can handle before collapsing. I think that is part of the Pivens-Cleavage theory as well, or whatever it is called.