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Trump calls for return to paper ballots, end of no-excuses mail-in voting
justthenews.com ^ | 10/5/2022 | john solomon

Posted on 10/05/2022 7:30:15 PM PDT by bitt

"You would have elections that everybody could be proud of. Because right now this country is a laughingstock all over the world," former president said in an interview with Just the News.

Former President Donald Trump is offering a specific policy prescription for restoring Americans' confidence in elections, saying it is time for states to return to paper ballots and to end no-excuses absentee ballots so that results can be finalized on Election Day and the nation can stop looking like a "laughing stock" to the world.

"I call them the fake vote store. That's the mail in ballots. We shouldn't have mail in ballots, unless somebody's very, very sick or it's military far away," Trump told the Just the News, No Noise television show in a wide-ranging interview aired Wednesday night on the Real America's Voice network.

The former president said the long delays -- sometimes stretching days or a week or more -- before many states finalize election results in close races has shaken America's confidence and created doubt in foreign countries. The delays, he said, are from the prolific use of mail-in ballots in some states that can sometimes be counted several days after the election if they have an Election Day postmark.

"We should go to paper ballots, like they did in France. Thirty-six million people (voted) and they had no disputes. Everyone had paper ballots, and it was one-day voting. They didn't store them over there in the corner, and you see the boxes moving all over the place," he said.

The state "should go to one-day voting. They should go to paper ballots. And you would have elections that everybody could be proud of. Because right now, this country is a laughingstock all over the world. They're laughing at our stupid elections," he added.

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To: hoagy62
Our county has a system that provides the best of both worlds-- a machine to mark your ballot, print it out and take it over to a scanner which counts it electronically, dropping the printed ballot (which the voter has the opportunity to review before scanning) into a sealed lock box which will be open and counted manually if scanned in results are challenged.

We also voted for DJT by over a 2-1 margin.

41 posted on 10/06/2022 5:34:36 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Chickensoup

The fact that this hasn’t been done since the stolen 2020 election shows how spineless, and weak supposed conservative republicans are. They are the washington generals playing against the globetrotters. “Dang ,they outsmarted and beat us again”!


42 posted on 10/06/2022 5:36:24 AM PDT by ozarker
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To: LadyDoc

Exactly. That’s how we do it in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.


43 posted on 10/06/2022 5:39:45 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ProudGOP

See my post #41.


44 posted on 10/06/2022 5:42:08 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BlackbirdSST
'fraid not.

This is the single issue that needed to be hammered since day 1. The 2020 election should have been attacked on the ground that it was unreliable, not stolen. More people would have paid attention to a forward looking argument that wasn't drowned out by a backwards-looking one.

Instead, we've had this broken record refrain about how the election was stolen, which a lot of people tuned out. That's the truth whether you want to admit it or not.

45 posted on 10/06/2022 5:49:54 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: bitt

Trump, as great as he is, failed to address voting crimes after the 2016 election. Huge failure. He could have dealt with each state legislature. Terrible shame.


46 posted on 10/06/2022 5:50:35 AM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
How is Cheating NOT POSSIBLE, no matter what is tried? Decreasing cheating will be possible, but not getting rid of cheating 100%, unfortunately. There will, always, be new ways to cheat that will be created. Cheating v.s. Non-Cheating will be a never ending war. This is an ongoing problem, worldwide.

That's true, but we can make it much harder and therefore less prevalent. We need to get rid of no-escuses mail-in balloting, and any absentee ballot that doesn't arrive by Election Day is not valid regardless of when it was sent. We need to get back to having elections where the result is known the night of - or early morning at the latest. This crap about counting dragging in for two weeks is ridiculous.

47 posted on 10/06/2022 5:52:46 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Vigilanteman

Good system.


48 posted on 10/06/2022 5:53:45 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

We must win every race by such a large margin so as to overcome all the invalid fraud dem votes.
20%, or at least 15.
And pray that God will fact check EVERY race!


49 posted on 10/06/2022 6:30:44 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good--Facts is Facts)
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To: Singermom

“AND dipping your finger in purple ink after you vote”

Purple finger is a blatant violation of the civil rights of the fingerless, thus super racist because it disproportionately affects women and minorities


50 posted on 10/06/2022 6:49:18 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: bitt

That’s one of those suggestions that sends the leftists into orbit.


51 posted on 10/06/2022 6:49:32 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Revel
brucecampbellsChinese propaganda service

That is actually quite funny seeing that you guys are on the exact same side of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as is the Chinese Communist Party. And North Korea. And Iran.

52 posted on 10/06/2022 8:03:54 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (0 OOP )
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