Posted on 08/11/2020 9:18:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
I begin with a personal story to make a greater point.
Two weeks ago, I mailed an 8-by-10-inch envelope from a Miami post office to an address in New York State. The postage was correct, as were the address and ZIP code.
One week passed, and the recipient emailed to say the envelope had not arrived. So I mailed another one. Last week, he wrote to say that the second one had arrived. A few days after that, he wrote again to say the one mailed earlier had finally been delivered after a 10-day delay. Normally, a first-class mailing would not have taken more than three business days.
Multiply my experience by the 100 million that could be expected from an all-mail-in election and the problem should be obvious.
President Trump has said the potential for fraud with all mail-in voting is enormous. While he has said absentee ballots are safer, the New York Daily News reported, "Systematic failures at the state Board of Elections and U.S. Postal Service resulted in nearly one in 10 absentee ballots cast in the June 23 primary being invalidated." That comes out to 84,000 out of nearly 319,000 ballots cast.
Many Democrats claim the fear over mail-in ballots is misplaced, but the evidence proves otherwise. In close elections, especially presidential elections, a few votes either way in key states can decide the winner.
In the 2018 congressional election, officials in Broward County, Florida, had trouble finding 2,040 ballots. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported, "The county's eternally beleaguered Supervisor of Elections, Brenda Snipes, said they either misplaced, misfiled, or mixed in with another stack."
The Associated Press recently reported, "Hundreds of thousands of applications for mail-in ballots that a voter-advocacy group sent to voters in Virginia had the wrong return addresses, adding another complication for state election officials who are already hard-pressed to pull off a smooth election in a pandemic."
In Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative election integrity watchdog firm, reports, according to the Western Journal, that "universal mail-in balloting resulted in one out of every six ballots being 'undeliverable' in a recent primary. ... Over 223,000 ballots bounced because the addresses were incorrect or outdated."
"CBS This Morning" ran a small test on mail-in ballots. The program set up a P.O. box and sent 100 mock ballots to it. A few days later the show sent 100 more. Only 97 percent of the first batch arrived after a week, and 21 percent of the second batch had not arrived after four days. The show stated the obvious: in close elections, such incidents could make a difference.
Then there is the possibility of fraud. During the 2018 election campaign, the New York Post reported, "Homeless people on Los Angeles' Skid Row were bribed with cash or cigarettes in exchange for bogus and forged signatures in a 'large-scale voter fraud scheme,'" according to state prosecutors.
There are many other examples of voting problems in several states. Republicans are mostly opposed to universal vote-by-mail. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., claims the process invites fraud, citing over a thousand voter fraud convictions and a study showing that 28 million mail-in ballots are unaccounted for over the last decade.
For these reasons, mail-in balloting should be limited and thoroughly checked. Voters can practice all the things medical experts tell us to do and vote in person. It is a civic duty and a privilege. It will also help reduce errors and fraud and improve the credibility and acceptance of the results.
Can’t the President’s team try to file injunctions against those who want to do mail in fraud voting?
We were expecting a book delivered via usps in end of April.
Well, postal service repeatedly tried to deliver it in Puerto Rico.
The address was in NY.
It had tracking, so it showed “out for delivery” in Catano and San Juan.
Last week we were expecting a belt for the mower, for some insane reason the seller sent it via USPS.
It was supposed to be here on Saturday.
Saturday comes, it says it was delivered.
No package.
Yeah... I trust them with votes.
Riiiiight.
Massive voter fraud is the only way the Democrats could win this November.
We know it. They know it.
They can be expected to abuse the voting system monstrously. If they cannot stuff the ballot box sufficiently to win, they can do it sufficiently to claim the election flawed and completely disrupt its results and the US system of government.
Be prepared for the worst.
The media is pushing confusion over mail-in ballots and absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are requested by a valid voter. Mail-in ballots are sent out to every registered voter on the voter rolls. The fraud is in that counties will not and have not purged ineligible voters, dead, moved, bogus voter registrations, etc. Picture this, dead momma gets a ballot and Jr. fills it out along with his, thousands of ballots undeliverable because of vacant addresses- someone gets those ballots fills them out and sends them in. The democrats are going to use mail-in ballots for their fraud.
Awwww, does it hurts and has a temperature?
I once sent a packet of legal papers to a family in Alaska registered mail with signature delivery. It finally got back in my office with the notion that the Arkansas post office could not deliver it. Apparently they not only did not know AK is Alaska not Arkansas (AR) but they did not read the zip code either.
Granted 98% of the time the post office does a great job. But we are talking about votes here and a 2% error rate can and will swing elections.
I lived in a state where they called them “Early ballots” you didn’t have to be absentee and they did not mail to everyone but you could request an “early” ballot mailed to you to mail back in or drop at polling place during early in person voting or on election day. I’m sure lots of mishaps happen each election - oopsie.
You’re absolutely right. And if the Democrats cannot use fraudulent voting to win the elections, they will use it to try to disrupt the elections.
Yup.
And that variance is unacceptable.
Leni
Due to health reasons I just voted "absentee ballot" in our state's August primary and mailed it in. There are many more legit reasons for "absentee ballots".
I had to fill in a mail-in form prior to that to qualify.
The enemedia is deliberately mixing in legitimate "absentee ballots" with flooding a state with "mail-in ballots"...and conservative commentators go right along with the misleading liberal wordage and don't point out the difference.
I feel like screaming at them when they go along with the marxist narrative.
Leni
bttt
“Systematic failures at the state Board of Elections and U.S. Postal Service resulted in nearly one in 10 absentee ballots cast in the June 23 primary being invalidated.” That comes out to 84,000 out of nearly 319,000 ballots cast.”
Someone needs to learn simple arithmetic.
Who runs the USPS? How are they connected to Democrats? Follow the money.
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