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On 4/25/2020 at 6:00 PM, B-Man said:

 

While it would be easy to overlook in these crazy times, there’s a special election coming up tomorrow in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. Voters there will be deciding who will replace Elijah Cummings in the House. But they’re doing things quite a bit differently than usual this time around. To avoid exposing more people to the novel coronavirus at crowded polling places, Governor Larry Hogan ordered that the election be conducted using mail-in ballots.

 

Smart move, right? I mean, you’re not going to catch COVID-19 sitting at your kitchen table and filling out a form. But there’s one small hitch in this plan. Okay, it’s not really “small” at all. Hundreds, if not thousands of people still hadn’t received their ballots by last Thursday and it takes, on average, five days for the ballots to reach their destination after they are dropped in the mail. (Baltimore Sun)

 

 

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On 4/8/2020 at 12:51 PM, Warren Zevon said:

According to some (although Trump's voter fraud commission failed to find any evidence of voter fraud) mail in ballots are rampant with fraud. Should absentee ballots then be made illegal?

USA Today reports, “Two-thirds of Americans support voting by mail as an alternative to voting in person on Election Day during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Suffolk University.”

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4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

USA Today reports, “Two-thirds of Americans support voting by mail as an alternative to voting in person on Election Day during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Suffolk University.”

  Most of those 2/3 are unaware as to the potential fraud that can happen with mail in balloting.  Why are you afraid of going to a place to vote where illegal activity such as voting machine tampering can be watched for?

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2 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  Most of those 2/3 are unaware as to the potential fraud that can happen with mail in balloting.  Why are you afraid of going to a place to vote where illegal activity such as voting machine tampering can be watched for?

Mail in balloting reduces fraud risk. There is a hard copy, easy to check. Machine are very vulnerable to hacking. Trump and Russia know this

 

Jul 25, 2019 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked a ... concluded all 50 states were targeted in 2016 and ahead of the 2018 election “top election ... and another that makes it a federal crime to hack elections systems. ... The most pressing issue is replacing electronic voting machines that do not ...
 
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2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Mail in balloting reduces fraud risk. There is a hard copy, easy to check. Machine are very vulnerable to hacking. Trump and Russia know this

 

Jul 25, 2019 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked a ... concluded all 50 states were targeted in 2016 and ahead of the 2018 election “top election ... and another that makes it a federal crime to hack elections systems. ... The most pressing issue is replacing electronic voting machines that do not ...
 

  Which is why you pull the old style machines out of the back of the town hall that your grandpa used back decades ago.  Nobody from afar can interfere and I think that you knew that when you made your post.  Not all technology is good if it can be put to corrupt uses.  Simply take the current generation voting apparatuses and put them out in the shed next to the salt spreader for the town.  With any luck they will rapidly corrode to the point where they are gutted for reclaimed metals and the rest of it sent to the landfill.  Lesson learned.  

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26 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  Which is why you pull the old style machines out of the back of the town hall that your grandpa used back decades ago.  Nobody from afar can interfere and I think that you knew that when you made your post.  Not all technology is good if it can be put to corrupt uses.  Simply take the current generation voting apparatuses and put them out in the shed next to the salt spreader for the town.  With any luck they will rapidly corrode to the point where they are gutted for reclaimed metals and the rest of it sent to the landfill.  Lesson learned.  

I'd just use the mail in ballots, easy, accurate and increases turnout 

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13 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

I'd just use the mail in ballots, easy, accurate and increases turnout 

  I'd just have people go to their designated polling places.  Representatives from any interested political party can be on hand to monitor for irregularities.  The few dozen mail-in ballots could be double checked for authenticity.  Voting is so important that a nation such as ours should push for at least partial time off on election day to insure maximum participation.  This is not 3 generations ago where people had to fear goons keeping any registered voter away from a polling place.

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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:

USA Today reports, “Two-thirds of Americans support voting by mail as an alternative to voting in person on Election Day during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Suffolk University.”

 

An even higher % of posters on PPP support absentee ballots

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Just now, Warren Zevon said:

 

An even higher % of posters on PPP support absentee ballots

  This is evidenced how?  Do we get a mod to insure that socks are not unduly counted?  

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1 minute ago, RochesterRob said:

  This is evidenced how?  Do we get a mod to insure that socks are not unduly counted?  

The lefties have to win November at all costs, or it will be years before they are relevant again. They are fully aware of this fact. 

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Just now, Reality Check said:

The lefties have to win November at all costs, or it will be years before they are relevant again. They are fully aware of this fact. 

  Which is why I fear the Democratic governors of populous states will renew shutdowns in October to have the excuse to implement mail in balloting.

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2 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  Which is why I fear the Democratic governors of populous states will renew shutdowns in October to have the excuse to implement mail in balloting.

 

That's 100% the plan. 

 

It won't work, but that's their plan.

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Just now, Deranged Rhino said:

 

That's 100% the plan. 

 

It won't work, but that's their plan.

 

You better be damned sure Wolf is gonna dig deep into the dirty deeds playbook in PA.

 

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1 minute ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

You better be damned sure Wolf is gonna dig deep into the dirty deeds playbook in PA.

 

  My fear as well.  There is a whole generation of lefties who ache to see their dream fulfilled before they die.  Time is running out for a number of them such as Rob Meathead Reiner.

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39 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  I'd just have people go to their designated polling places.  Representatives from any interested political party can be on hand to monitor for irregularities.  The few dozen mail-in ballots could be double checked for authenticity.  Voting is so important that a nation such as ours should push for at least partial time off on election day to insure maximum participation.  This is not 3 generations  2008 when people had to fear goons keeping any registered voter away from a polling place.

FIFY. Philadelphia New Black Panthers to be specific. 

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Would Mail in ballots and Ballot harvesting be abused by desperate liberals...........................There is no question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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