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Trump threatens to withhold Michigan funding over mail-in voting
The Hill ^ | 05/20/20 08:22 AM EDT | BY MORGAN CHALFANT

Posted on 05/20/2020 5:36:13 AM PDT by RandFan

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To: Balding_Eagle
She’s the resident shallow thinker here on FR

Truth hurt?

61 posted on 05/20/2020 7:22:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

We received absentee ballots in Maryland. I looked to see if we could vote in person, at least for the primary. Nope.


62 posted on 05/20/2020 7:23:04 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: RandFan; All

In certain areas of the country mail is not delivered to a residence but to a post office box holder. Any ballot so addressed should not be allowed because the recipient’s resident citizenship cannot be proven.Any such ballot not containing the voters residential address should be challenged .


63 posted on 05/20/2020 7:27:05 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: RandFan; All

Remember Soros’s SecState initiative of the last 4-5 years. He spent billions supporting candidates —some of which would be in position now to push things like this mail-in vote stealing. AsG similarly.

It’ll be up to legislators and judges to stop this. Swing states like Michigan worry me.

They are stirring anger amongst us...to put it mildly. Fury.


64 posted on 05/20/2020 7:29:26 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: freepertoo
We received absentee ballots in Maryland. I looked to see if we could vote in person, at least for the primary. Nope.

States like Oregon haven't had in-person voting for years.

65 posted on 05/20/2020 7:35:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

“You have a say at every election time.”

Only if there’s integrity in the process, which I now question.

I’m no lawyer, she may or may not have broken the law, I’m questioning the spirit of the action relative to the ideals of our Constitution. Something so ripe for fraud, wanted only by one party, seems wrong regardless of what the current law says.

Even if the law has been broken, I have little faith that anything will be done - which is the most disturbing aspect.


66 posted on 05/20/2020 7:37:58 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RandFan
While voting experts say there are higher levels of voter fraud in mail-in voting than in-person voting, they agree that overall cases of voter fraud are rare.

I think we've had enough of 'experts' for awhile.

67 posted on 05/20/2020 7:56:58 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: DoodleDawg
I wish he’d stop with the empty threats. States control their own elections, even for federal office.

Empty...how, exactly?

68 posted on 05/20/2020 7:57:59 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Rusty0604

July 14 are the runoff primaries. ....just saying. ..


69 posted on 05/20/2020 7:58:51 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: DoodleDawg

Truth hurt?

Hardly, I normally skip your postings, shallow thinking.


70 posted on 05/20/2020 8:00:32 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Unless it's also illegal in Michigan then there is nothing Trump or anyone else can do about it.

Really? What is PT threatening to do?

71 posted on 05/20/2020 8:01:58 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: DoodleDawg

But, not when they involve a Federal “vehicle” to facilitate it.


72 posted on 05/20/2020 8:21:17 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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To: fuzzylogic

Simple.
Our legislature will need to pass a law that establishes a STATE postal service to facilitate the vote.
Oh, and the State can’t print stamps, so there’s that.
The (new, Trump-appointed) Postmaster General can exit the USPS from the State effort, citing national security and ballot custody.


73 posted on 05/20/2020 8:25:36 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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To: RandFan

I will argue the mailing gambit will nor encourage voter fraud, the gambit is voter fraud.

Further it is not voting

To vote, one must show up at the polls and present a picture ID proof of citizenship and social security number.

Those who are unable to show up at a bonefide polling place are not eligible to vote. The myriad of reasons for not showing up are null and void.


74 posted on 05/20/2020 8:30:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: RandFan

I will argue the mailing gambit will nor encourage voter fraud, the gambit is voter fraud.

Further it is not voting

To vote, one must show up at the polls and present a picture ID proof of citizenship and social security number.

Those who are unable to show up at a bonefide polling place are not eligible to vote. The myriad of reasons for not showing up are null and void.


75 posted on 05/20/2020 8:30:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Fai Mao

If you are to scared to go vote at the polling place, then apply for an absentee ballot.


76 posted on 05/20/2020 8:31:52 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: chiller

Trump just tweeted an identical threat to Nevada.


77 posted on 05/20/2020 8:33:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: gogeo
Really? What is PT threatening to do?

Nothing really. Just saying he'll withhold funding.

78 posted on 05/20/2020 8:57:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Balding_Eagle
Hardly, I normally skip your postings, shallow thinking.

And yet here you are.

79 posted on 05/20/2020 8:57:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: gogeo
Empty...how, exactly?

He can't withhold funding because Michigan did something Michigan has the authority to do.

80 posted on 05/20/2020 8:58:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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