The Fight Over Ballots Has Already Begun in Wisconsin

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 19, 2024 | Julie Bosman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Karen Cannestra does not like that drop box in front of West Bend City Hall.

Ms. Cannestra, 72 and retired, prefers to vote at her polling place in Wisconsin on Election Day, the way it was always done. It goes beyond personal preference, she says. Who knows the motives of the person who’s pulling those ballots out at the end of the day? Couldn’t somebody tamper with the process?

Isn’t that exactly what happened in 2020, she asked, when, she felt, the election was stolen?

“I don’t trust it, the drop box,” Ms. Cannestra said, before walking into City Hall to pay a utility bill. “No, no, no.”

Many Republican voters still believe former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claim that he won the presidential election in 2020. In Wisconsin, they are taking those fears over election fraud and directing them at the dozens of ballot drop boxes across the state, though there weren’t any major problems with voter fraud there in 2020.

Drop boxes, which had been used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after the claims of fraud, are back, and they have become the subject of bitter debate. City Council and county board meetings in the state have been consumed with battles over the boxes in recent days, a glimpse of what could soon be a repeat of 2020: the results of a legitimate presidential election being questioned and rejected by a wide swath of Americans.

In the central Wisconsin city of Wausau, Mayor Doug Diny stoked fears over drop boxes in September by personally removing one that had yet to be fully installed. Last week at a City Council meeting, one Wausau resident insisted that she had seen drop boxes covertly stuffed with ballots on four different occasions when she was living in...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Democrats know they can't win without cheating.

[brownsfan]

“Democrats know they can’t win without cheating.”

They’ve know that for a long time, that’s why they’re going to do it like we’ve never seen before.

[kiryandil]

though there weren’t any major problems with voter fraud there in 2020.

Even thought the Wisconsin state supreme court said there was a major problem with the vote-from-home ballots...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Many Republican voters still believe former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claim that he won the presidential election in 2020.

The Slimes says the 2020 election was not stolen, without evidence.

OBAMA 2008
69,000,000 votes
Wins 873 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
WINS ELECTION

TRUMP 2020
74,000,000 votes
Wins 2497 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
LOSES ELECTION

BIDEN 2020
81,000,000 votes
Wins 477 Counties
LOSES 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
LOSES Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
LOSES House seats
WINS ELECTION

[BenLurkin]

[God luvs America]

Good to see our side is fighting back so early...

[dp0622]

And....are we gonna be little girls again and watch it?

or step up if we’re sure it happened?

Too many people here talk like we’re VICTIMS and can’t do anything about it.

Our founding fathers discussed things a lot, I’m sure, before making drastic decisions.

If this election IS in fact stolen, are we gonna type another four years?

Or act?

I’m only advocating not saying “oh well” this time if it happen.

But hopefully it wont

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The NYT is churning out these gaslighting articles at ten to twenty per day. They must have hired a lot of prog freelance writers with hefty bonuses to write them. Or the NYT AI is grinding away 24x7.

Many Republican voters still believe former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claim...

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Big Steal Part Deux has begun. The DemonRATS are at it again.

[Carl Vehse]

"Democrats know they can't win without cheating."

This time, the Demonicrat cheating will be so massive and obvious they can't (nor do they care anymore) to hide it. The DeepStaters have corrupt judges and the military to quell any protests.

[unclebankster]

And....are we gonna be little girls again and watch it?

*******************

They’re insufferable.

I’d like to send that crowd a pacifier, a bottle, baby formula, & a box of diapers.

Not an ounce of fight in them......just “Waahhh ...Waaahh” everyday....all day.... about the ‘invincible’ democrats and their cheat machine.

[detective]

The Democrats have the same dishonest media, the same voting machines, the same fraudulent drop off ballots and the same corrupt judges that they had in 2020.

Republicans have the same corrupt RINOs that had 2020.

Will results be different from 2020 or more massive fraud?

[gw-ington]

Wrong. You freepers just refuse to understand that "81 Million!" American voters patiently waited for decades and decades to FINALLY get to vote for a dementia patient as pResident of the United States. Joe Biden gave them that. So it's no surprise that Joe Biden is "the most popular pResident in American history" with over "81 Million votes!"

Dementia is what American voters have ALWAYS wanted in their pResident! The 2020 Election proved that.

81 Million votes!

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Good post.

[mononymous]

The complete joke this country has become will be fully evident if there’s an in-your-face steal again this cycle. Last OCTOBER, I posted this, specifically, the second item:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4186367/posts

I’m not aware of anything being done (and yes, I know there’s been some progress in a few states); still, the idea that what is nominally a first world country cannot have elections where everyone can be confident that the will of the people is the outcome is what is a joke. No one, on the left, should ever be allowed to say they are “protecting democracy,” because it’s utter bull$hit.

[IAGeezer912]

A tube of super glue on each lid would help solve the stuffing problem.