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06 Aug 2020 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 08/06/2020 10:46:57 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

What is the difference between Voting by Mail and Absentee Voting?


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KEYWORDS: 2020elections; absenteevoting; votebymail
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To: EEGator

Ah, the early days of just clearing browser cache to vote as often as you’d like.

Then there was the balloting tied to email addresses, where one could set up 30 accounts and vote them all every day.

And scripting all that.


21 posted on 08/06/2020 11:05:20 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Red Badger

True !!!


22 posted on 08/06/2020 11:05:36 AM PDT by dp0622 (Patriots: Better stand tall when they're calling you out. Don't bend, don't brweak, don't back down.)
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To: MortMan; US Navy Vet
Someone pointed out that one of the Left Coast states, either Washington or Oregon, went to complete vote-by-mail.

Thereafter, the Democrat party in the state ceased to lose elections.

23 posted on 08/06/2020 11:05:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Pajamajan
Yes, I think so.😁
24 posted on 08/06/2020 11:06:32 AM PDT by jch10 (S's)
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To: US Navy Vet

absentee ballots are so few in number they rarely get counted. Mail in ballots are so numerous they never get counted.


25 posted on 08/06/2020 11:06:40 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: US Navy Vet

Requesting a ballot with identication.

5.56mm


26 posted on 08/06/2020 11:07:19 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Psalm 73
Thank you for such a concise, clear answer! I saw a post from someone on Twitter, who said that is how Either Oregon or Washington State lost Their representation 😶 Dear Lord, please hear our prayers. Tatt
27 posted on 08/06/2020 11:07:19 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: ping jockey

AZ is a hybrid. I’ve voted my mail (not absentee, but a ballot is sent to me for each election) for many years - but in-person voting is also available.


28 posted on 08/06/2020 11:07:23 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Thank you sir, for your service & for asking!


29 posted on 08/06/2020 11:08:04 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: shelterguy; US Navy Vet

Even if they actually address the ballot to every registered voter, how many of those are going to be dead, no longer in the state, or otherwise ineligible to vote?

If you live in the average apartment building, when someone moves out without a forwarding address, their mail just piles up in the lobby under the mailboxes - ripe for anyone to go around and harvest, and use in whatever way they want.

In my state, to vote absentee, you have to request an absentee ballot, explaining your reason/need, and they send it to you. It’s not just a matter of mailing out ballots to everyone, as mail-in voting would be.

Someone else here noted that pre-paid mail, as this would probably be, isn’t tracked by the post office. How do you know if your ballot even made it to its destination, or when? Who is going to keep a record, and how, if you want to track whether your vote was registered?

There are lots of reasons why mail-in voting is dangerous - fraud, long delays in counting and knowing results; and lots of legal disputes will arise.


30 posted on 08/06/2020 11:08:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: US Navy Vet

For all practical purposes? Nothing.


31 posted on 08/06/2020 11:09:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: US Navy Vet

absentee ballots also have to be postmarked by election day... or they are not counted...

voting by mail has no limits so far...


32 posted on 08/06/2020 11:10:48 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: dp0622; US Navy Vet

What is the difference between Voting by Mail and Absentee Voting?

Absentee Voting - They mail out REQUESTED ballots, maybe 10%, to people. get maybe 98% of them back, properly filled out and certifiable.

Voting by Mail - They mail out 100% of the ballots to every listed voter. they get back 110% of them..................


33 posted on 08/06/2020 11:12:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
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To: Aevery_Freeman; All

Some states or communities allow early
voting in person a couple weeks before
the election.Had to sign with my name
and address (don’t think I had to
show ID IIRC) at the one polling place in my city that had it—City Hall, Beverly
MA. I wasn’t even going to be out
of town on election day. It was the
general election in 2016 and I
voted Trump.


34 posted on 08/06/2020 11:12:50 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: US Navy Vet

The requires a request and a valid reason, the other is fraudulent push for ballot mischief?


35 posted on 08/06/2020 11:14:06 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Psalm 73

“”””Mail in Voting”:
Actual ballots get mass-mailed to every possible voter at every address - not knowing if they are a valid voter, if they even live there, or if they’re even alive.
ANYONE can get ahold of that ballot, fill it out and mail it in. ANYONE.”””


I would add additional step in the process.

1. ANYONE on the voter registration rolls would be sent a ballot

2. ANYONE who lived at the address where the ballot was sent could get a hold of the ballot

3. ANYONE could fill it out

4. ANYONE could sign the outside of the envelope that the ballot is mailed back. (ANYONE, Knowing that if millions of ballots are mailed back, the election supervisors will not be able to check any of the signatures on file).

I have voted absentee many times in two different states and both states require that I signed the outside of the envelope used to mail the ballot back to the election supervisor.

Point #4 is critical. The Democrats know that the election supervisors will not have the time to compare signatures if millions of ballots are mass mailed to every registered voter.


36 posted on 08/06/2020 11:15:10 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Red Badger

Lol


37 posted on 08/06/2020 11:16:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (Patriots: Better stand tall when they're calling you out. Don't bend, don't brweak, don't back down.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
notonevote
38 posted on 08/06/2020 11:16:38 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Pajamajan

Are we to assume this means we can vote twice in the upcoming election? ..................................... Take any extra mail in ballot you received, and I am sure if you take to any DNC office, they will pay you for it, or give you a scratch off lottery ticket.


39 posted on 08/06/2020 11:20:23 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: US Navy Vet

Voting Fraud Is a Real Concern. Just Look Around the World | Opinion
by John R. Lott, Jr.

https://www.newsweek.com/voting-fraud-real-concern-just-look-around-world-opinion-1522535


40 posted on 08/06/2020 11:22:04 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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