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Posted on 11/07/2024 10:44:36 PM PST by SarahPalin2012
About 76% of the vote is counted.
In Texas each county's ballot board scrutinizes the security envelope of every incoming absentee ballot. They aren't just looked at hy two election workers. The ballot boards are controlled by the party that is in control of the county government. After Republicans took control of my county's county commissioners' court after the 2008 elections, Republicans took over the ballot board with a 1 vote majority of the board. The ballot board started rejecting lots more absentee ballots. They strictly enforce the requirements for signatures and postmarks.
From the start in 1988, early voting has been conducted just like election day voting, except that voters are allowed to vote from any of the early voting locations in a county rather than having to vote at the voting precinct location used on election day. Several counties in Texas now have newer voter validation systems that allow checking in voters at any location in the county. So now election day voting can be almost as convenient as early voting except for the lines.
One of the reasons my county got the vote anywhere on election day technology is that Texas was required to preclear any changes to voting and district lines, and of course we had lawsuits filed after redistricting in 2012. My county was also on the radar, because it was the first Hispanic majority county in Texas (and I think in the entire US) to elect a Republican majority in its county government. Our county commission hired very competent redistricting consultants from Houston that did their homework so well even the Obama Justice Department couldn't find much to object to. The one thing they did do even though there was absolutely no provision in any federal voting laws was to require ALL voting locations in my county comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990!
Maybe the Obama administration thought it was pulling something on us, but I laughed very hard that this had happened. Back under Democrat control, Democrat stronghold precincts were made small with as few as 300 voters. Republican precincts were large with as many 3,000 to 4,000 voters. Not only are Republican precincts much larger, but they have higher propensity to vote. The computer printouts of voter lists were huge and took longer to locate voters. Many of Democrat voting precincts were located in homes. It doesn't require a PhD in political science to figure out that precincts in people's homes did not comply with the laws prohibiting electioneering inside the voting precinct nor 100 feet around the building. Having very small precincts also facilitated vote fraud by making it hard to field enough poll watchers. One thing that greatly cut down on vote fraud was the law that was put in about 2000 or so that guaranteed that each political party is entitled to place an alternate election judge in each precinct. An alternate judge can't be kicked out by the presiding election judge the way a poll watcher can.
My attitude towards the the Justice Department's requirement to put all voting centers in buildings complying to the ADA was like Brer Rabbit's plea not to be thrown in the briar patch. It means Democrat precincts will never be able to be put into people's homes again. In fact the Republican dominated legislature's response was to pass a law requiring every voting center in the state be compliant with the ADA! Back in 2016 before the statewide mandate, my county was forced by necessity to adopt the vote at any location on election day model in order to meet the Justice Department's mandate. We were the smallest county in Texas to have that system and got lots of help from the Texas Secretary of State's office to help implement it. Now many more counties in Texas have that system for election day voting.
In Texas we get our votes counted on election day and don't have rioting. Compare that to other states. Californistan can't get its votes counted 3 weeks after the election.
Who is decision desk HQ?
Go Kari Go
#MAGA
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kari-lake-ruben-gallego-arizona/2024/11/08/id/1187235/
We are told another drop JUST came in giving Kari another Big Jump towards passing Gallehgo... she just got 56 percent of the last drop... in the last 15 minutes.
“in order to know how many more fake ballots to manufacture.”
A friend - very MAGA and conservative - supervises a precinct (?) in Tucson. Says most of the experienced people quit between 2020 and now. He’s been doing the work for 20 years himself. He says the counting is absolutely honest and there is NO “manufacturing of ballots” going on. Reps of both parties are watching everything with full access and live video feeds.
He is convinced the counting is very honest. Not quite the same as being convinced every ballot submitted in the weeks before the election is honest. And that is in PIMA county - a democrat stronghold.
No one in Maricopa is making ballots. They can’t. The total ballots are the total ballots. If they weren’t in by COB on Election Day, they are trashed.
God willing. Should they cheat Lake again I hope President Trump considers her for Press Secretary should Kayleigh McEnany not resume it.
(They’re so hard to look at. NOT, LOL.)
I would appreciate your friend’s take on this: are the mail in ballots legitimately tracked to a citizen voter who is alive and over 18 and not a felon voter who lives at a real address who only votes once?
Ask your friend how long the voter line wait is? Does it really take 20+ minutes to vote (reading the issues)?
It’s your neighborhood, Mr. Rogers. I’ll take your word that your not reporting that from the Land of Make Believe.
If the voting indeed is quite honest, then why does it take so much longer to count fewer AZ than the more numerous FL votes?
WTF goes on in AZ? I hope the pubbies are still on the job overseeing every count.
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“I would appreciate your friend’s take on this: are the mail in ballots legitimately tracked to a citizen voter who is alive and over 18 and not a felon voter who lives at a real address who only votes once?”
They are MAILED to a specific voter who is either on the Permanent Early Voting List or who (as in my case) requested a ballot to be mailed to me at my address. Those who registered after 1996 have provided proof of citizenship OR are voting in a Federal-only ballot that only requires the voter to claim citizenship. The latter is due to federal law.
I don’t know how felons are handled. My son mentioned a guy he knew who was told he couldn’t vote because of his record (2 felonies involving sentences just over a year each). And he was denied in Pima County, which is the Democrat stronghold of Arizona.
The only person I know who voted on Election Day said the line was short where he voted (a conservative area of Pima County).
This year’s ballot had a ton of referendum issues. The ballot was 2 pages, both sides, small print. It would be impossible to vote on them intelligently if one waited until at the voting booth to read them. I spent 90 minutes researching them before I voted. My wife carried a cheat sheet from the Arizona GOP into the booth with her. Arizona needs to put stricter limits on ballot issues. It was on the ballot this year (prop 134). It is currently losing by 15 points.
“If the voting indeed is quite honest, then why does it take so much longer to count fewer AZ than the more numerous FL votes?”
Don’t know. I know the voting stops overnight and suspect Arizona spends less in resources to the count. Also, I think - don’t know - that counties do the count in a single place and the transport of ballots securely apparently is a long process. It looks like signature verification and having everything done in front of both parties may be the issue, but I don’t know. Will probably see the guy again next week and will ask.
BTW - I don’t know how clean the ballot process is BEFORE they start the counting. I know I dropped my ballot off early with no ID check. A measure requiring some form of verification besides “signature” was voted down in 2022:
“Arizona Proposition 309, the Voter Identification Requirements for Mail-In Ballots and In-Person Voting Measure, was on the ballot in Arizona as a legislatively referred state statute on November 8, 2022.[1] The measure was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported making multiple changes to Arizona’s voter identification and mail-in ballot policies, including requiring dates of birth and voter identification numbers for mail-in ballots and eliminating the existing two-document alternative to photo ID for in-person voting.”
It lost by an 18,000 vote margin (0.75%).
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