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America should prepare now for voting by mail in November’s election
The Economist ^ | 04/18/2020 | Economist

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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KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; nationalpopularvote; npv
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A lot of states will use this as an excuse to open up the rules for absentee balloting. Efforts to sign up people and detect or expose fraud will be important. Do we have the ground game to win this?
1 posted on 04/18/2020 9:21:10 AM PDT by krny9
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NO Fing WAY!!


2 posted on 04/18/2020 9:22:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The Economist is propaganda for the globalists and ‘free’ trade.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 9:23:53 AM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Ann Archy

The Economist is the outrider for the New World Order.


4 posted on 04/18/2020 9:24:10 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: krny9

No.


5 posted on 04/18/2020 9:24:22 AM PDT by Skywise
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Amazing how the financial publications were targeted and taken over by the rats.


6 posted on 04/18/2020 9:24:30 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Should we just change the name of “elections” to “ballot harvests”?


7 posted on 04/18/2020 9:25:28 AM PDT by Seaplaner
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To: Bookshelf

“The Economist is the outrider for the New World Order.”
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Exactly.

I had a subscription from 1984. After they endorsed Bammy in 2008 I let it lapse.

No regrets.


8 posted on 04/18/2020 9:26:33 AM PDT by sevlex
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The communist liberal Democrats have been working to make America a global communist Country. They will continue until the ignorant communist loving Democrats succeed. We are at the crossroad now. Civil war is on the horizon.
9 posted on 04/18/2020 9:26:43 AM PDT by Logical me
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No.

And I will not recognize the results of any such farce.


10 posted on 04/18/2020 9:27:18 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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How do states have any say in federal elections?


11 posted on 04/18/2020 9:27:30 AM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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I would not accept that. RATs only push for something when they need it as a cheat mechanism.


12 posted on 04/18/2020 9:27:32 AM PDT by dforest
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I’ll take his advice and buy more ammo.


13 posted on 04/18/2020 9:28:36 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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Propaganda MUCH, NOOB!


14 posted on 04/18/2020 9:28:57 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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Nope. Nope nopeity nope


15 posted on 04/18/2020 9:29:04 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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No way!


16 posted on 04/18/2020 9:29:19 AM PDT by bewildered
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“America saw 491 cases of absentee-voting fraud.”

That were caught. How many weren’t caught..or purposely ignored?


17 posted on 04/18/2020 9:29:33 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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Colorado already had mail in ballots. My votes are being stolen as the first vote to be counted is the official vote. Since someone took a ballot and got it counted first my vote was disregarded when it came in.


18 posted on 04/18/2020 9:29:40 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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So we all get to vote by mail. Ten days before the election, but after millions of mail-in votes have been cast and harvested, Joe Biden, openly displays his advanced dementia in a public forum. He is quietly whisked away and the DNC appoints a substitute for him on the ballot, let’s say Hillary! What could possibly go wrong with such a system?


19 posted on 04/18/2020 9:30:18 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Now this whole flu scam makes sense. Democrats spreading the panic to ensure that mail in voting becomes the primary method of voting this November.


20 posted on 04/18/2020 9:30:19 AM PDT by dowcaet
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