Posted on 04/18/2020 9:21:10 AM PDT by krny9
One of Donald Trump’s special talents is to hold every conceivable position on a given subject at the same time. So it is with voting by mail in American elections. The president used a postal ballot to vote in Florida’s Republican primary last month. He has also denounced postal voting as an invitation to fraud. He has said voting by mail “doesn’t work out well for Republicans”. And he has said that postal voting should be expanded for older voters and for members of the armed forces, two groups he assumes would favour him in November.
The president’s interventions have turned something that should be uncontroversial into yet another excuse for partisan warfare. America has a presidential election this year. It also has thousands of congressional, state, county and mayoral elections. As the country with the most recorded cases of covid-19, it needs to start planning in case voters cannot get to polling stations. There is only one practical way to hold elections under these circumstances: to expand the use of voting by mail.
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In 2018 a Republican strategist in North Carolina allegedly collected and spoiled absentee ballots, which led to a re-run of a congressional election. Back in 1998, 18 people were arrested over a scam involving postal votes in Miami’s mayoral election. Such incidents are serious but exceptionally rare. Between 2000 and 2012, a period in which billions of votes were cast, America saw 491 cases of absentee-voting fraud. During that same period 497 Americans were killed by lightning.
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Sure. And all ballots will be returned to the Democratic National Committee.
“exceptionally rare”
They can’t prove that.
2016 will go down as the last Free election
“During that same period 497 Americans were killed by lightning”
Is that like saying only 497 people died from coronavirus in a given area?
There’s a difference between absentee ballots which must be applied for and return postmarked prior to a deadline set before election day. Expanding to generalized mail voting will lead to all kinds of shennanigans. Live in a ward that votes Republican — your ward’s sorted votes end up in the dead letter office. Democrat candidate came up a little short? Oh, look what we found (2 weeks later). Keep counting those votes says the Judge in the DNC’s pocket.
The Economist is now as bad as CNN or MSNBC, in terms of Trump-hatred.
So of course they support anything that might help to remove Trump from power.
All of a sudden it’s too hard for people to go and vote once every few years ?
The stupid party will NOT be ready for this.
The economist is a British communist magazine
Democrats are going to cheat, cheat, cheat.
That’s why they’re propping up Biden who is senile; makes defeating Trump even better for them.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
Then let’s start now lining up non regular voters to allow us to help them through the process. Some nice nonpartisan sounding group like ‘Help Americans Postal Vote.
Line up hundreds of thousands of Republicans proclaim their support for the effort and start announcing how many people they have commitments for “help.”
Never!!!
I am opposed the absentee voting except in cases the voter is away from home (out of town) or sick and can’t get to the voting precinct.
This business of taking ballots to nursing homes should not be allowed. The carrier usually does the voting, not the patient. Not good!!
I see they are proponents of unadulterated horse manure. No credibility in my eyes now.
Whoever has the biggest stack of fake ballots wins!
What could possibly go wrong?
:-(
NO MAIL-IN VOTING!
Voting is a privilege of Freedom, something this nation fights for 24/7 at home and abroad and now in the ether...Mail-in ballots have a tainted history of being lost or not getting counted at all if they ever got to the "addressee" on time. There is no way to check the voter's ID...or validity of actually being at the address the ballot is sent.
Vote at your polling place period regardless of what this propaganda is saying.
Yep, almost every financial public is now staffed by former Slate, Salon, HuffPost and other libtard communist writers.
Soros’ tentacles reach into colleges, finance, media, music, and tech.
I really, really, really hate that man.
You know it’s bad when they drop the first lie in the first sentence.
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