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Republicans in states such as Florida and Utah set up robust systems of mail voting and kept expanding their footprint.
佛罗里达州和犹他州等州的共和党人建立了强大的邮件投票系统，并不断扩大他们的足迹。
In states such as Colorado that mail every voter a ballot, older, conservative-leaning voters were the ones most likely to return their ballots by mail.
在科罗拉多这样的州，会给每位选民都邮寄一张选票，年龄较大、倾向于保守派的选民最有可能通过邮寄的方式寄回选票。
Still, the GOP has traditionally been more skeptical of mail balloting, though it was not a central piece of party identity until Mr. Trump made it so in 2020.
尽管如此，共和党历来对邮件投票持怀疑态度，在特朗普2020年这样做之前，邮寄投票并不是共和党身份认同的核心部分。
But even conservatives who push back against expanding mail voting warn that the party has to wake up to reality.
但即使是反对扩大邮寄投票的保守派人士也警告称，共和党必须清醒地面对现实。
“There is a tension on the right between folks who say, ‘They’re the rules and you’ve got to play by them,’ and those who say, ‘No, you do not,’” said Jason Snead of the Honest Elections Project, a conservative group that advocates for tighter restrictions on mail voting.
“右翼人士之间存在一种矛盾，一派人说，‘这些是规则，你必须遵守规则’，另一派人则说，‘不，你不要遵守规则’，” 倡导对邮件投票进行更严格限制的保守派组织“诚信选举计划”的杰森·斯尼德说。
“I think there’s a lot of reevaluation and reassessment going on.”
“我想有很多重新评估和鉴定正在进行中。”
“You can stand on principle and say, ‘I am not going to do this,’ but it’s a drag on performance if you do,” Mr. Snead said.
“你可以坚持原则，说‘我不会这么做’，但如果你这么做了，就会拖累选票结果，”斯尼德说。
He noted that Republicans with robust early voting programs, such as Govs. Brian Kemp in Georgia and Ron DeSantis in Florida, easily won their elections while those who echoed Mr. Trump’s conspiracy theories mostly lost.
他指出，那些强烈支持提前投票计划的共和党人，如佐治亚州的州长布莱恩·坎普和佛罗里达州的州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯，都轻松赢得了选举，而那些附和特朗普阴谋论的人大多输了竞选。
One of the worst performances for election conspiracy theorists was in Pennsylvania, where the Republican candidate for governor, who had watched as protesters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, lost by nearly 15 percentage points.
选举阴谋论者在宾夕法尼亚州的表现最差，该州的共和党州长候选人曾目睹抗议者在2021年1月6日袭击美国国会大厦，他以近15个百分点的差距落败。
The GOP also lost a Senate seat there and control of the lower house of the legislature.
共和党还失去了参议院的一个席位以及众议院的控制权。
Democrats out-voted Republicans by mail by more than 3-to-1, netting 69% of the nearly 1.25 million mail ballots cast in the state.
在该州近125万张邮寄选票中，民主党以3比1的票数超过了共和党，获得了69%的选票。
That was almost one-fourth of a total of nearly 5.4 million ballots cast.
这几乎占了近540万张选票的四分之一。
Republicans who control the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a massive overhaul of the state’s voting system in 2019, allowing anyone to cast a ballot by mail.
2019年，控制宾夕法尼亚州议会的共和党人通过了对该州投票系统的大规模改革，任何人都可以通过邮件投票。
Many Republicans had second thoughts in 2020 after Mr. Trump began to castigate mail voting.
在特朗普开始抨击邮件投票后，许多共和党人在2020年改变了想法。
GOP lawmakers and their allies have since fought in court to throw out the law and inflate the number of mail ballots rejected for technicalities.
自那以后，共和党议员及其盟友在法庭上进行了斗争，试图推翻这项法律，并夸大因技术细节而未被录用的邮寄选票的数量。
Top party officials in the state are now reassessing.
该州的高级官员正在重新评估。
“Republican attitudes on mail-in ballots are going to have to change,” said Sam DeMarco, chair of the Allegheny County GOP.
“共和党人对邮寄选票的态度将不得不改变，”阿勒格尼县共和党主席萨姆·德马科说。
“President Trump is running across the country telling people not to use it, and it’s crushing us.”
“特朗普总统在全国各地奔走，告诉人们不要使用邮寄投票，而这正在击垮我们。”
