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They aren't really discarding them blindly though. There's currently a preference among democrats to use mail in voting compared to Republicans. It used to be the other way around, but many Republicans, Trump especially, continue to tell their followers not to use mail in voting. So yes some of the votes they throw out will be republican votes, but more will be democratic. So throwing them all out throws out more democratic votes than Republicans and helps them. Similarly in states where democrats are making more use of early in person or drop off voting, republicans are trying to restrict those methods.
Republicans are constantly trying to implement "fair" rules that disenfranchise many voters but are blatantly crafted to proportionally decrease democratic votes more than Republican ones. Another good example is Texas's ridiculous rule of one ballot drop off box per county. Meaning the small rural counties that vote heavily republican get one drop box, but there's less people so this isn't too much of a problem. Meanwhile, heavily democratic Harris County (containing Houston) with 4.8 million people, more than a lot of entire states, is only allowed one single ballot drop off box too. I think you can see how this "fair" rule that applies to everyone is crafted to hurt democratic voters more, like all the republican voter suppression efforts. They look for any discrepancy between how republicans and democrats access voting, and then pounce on those.