Posted on 09/09/2020 5:32:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Left and its media allies are warning Americans not to expect a winner on election night. If Donald Trump leads on Nov. 3, the victory will be nothing more than a "red mirage," says Josh Mendelsohn, whose firm consults for the Democratic National Committee. In the days or weeks afterward, a Trump victory will be beaten back and undone as mail-in ballots tip the election for Joe Biden, predicts New York Times columnist David Brooks. "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances," warns Hillary Clinton.
Don't swallow this propaganda that election night victories are a thing of the past because of mail-in voting. Election night is a hallmark of American democracy. The public should be demanding the easy reforms that would protect it.
The 2020 election is likely to come down to a few battleground states, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. Unless these states reform their election laws now, on election night, they will be swamped with uncounted mail-in votes. States need to require that mail-in ballots are received well in advance of Election Day and counted as they come in.
Otherwise, the uncertainty will drag on, the voters lose their power, and the outcome will be decided in courtrooms and backrooms.
Or even in the House of Representatives. All states must allocate their Electoral College votes by Dec. 14. If even one swing state is still dithering, then it's possible neither Trump nor Biden would have 270 electoral votes. Then, the decision would be thrown to the House of Representatives. An Electoral College deadlock hasn't happened since 1876, but foolish state laws regarding mail-in ballots could produce one this year.
Half of all ballots are expected to be cast by mail. These ballots have to be processed by hand, and the signatures verified against signatures in the state database. Eleven states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, bar election workers from even opening ballots and beginning the time-consuming verification process until Election Day. That's crazy.
Fortunately, election officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan are calling for reform. More states need to act. If they don't, then Congress should step in.
The U.S. Constitution gives states primary authority over presidential elections, but Congress likely can still act. Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to improve vote-counting accuracy after the 2000 fiasco in Florida, when candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore both claimed victory. This time, Congress should stave off a crisis by requiring all states to count mail-in ballots in time for election night.
Anybody who opposes these simple reforms has mischief in mind.
Many Democrats don't want election night certainty. The DNC and allied groups are in court now suing to require that even ballots postmarked after election night or lacking signatures are counted. Why should people who mail their ballots late have their vote counted any more than people who show up at the polls late?
U.S. postal officials have made it clear that voters should mail in ballots at least seven days prior to Election Day to guarantee delivery. States should make that a legal deadline.
Late ballots threaten to throw the selection of our president into the newly elected House, which will convene Jan. 3, 2021. Each state delegation would get one vote. Republicans narrowly control a majority of state delegations in the current Congress, but that could change. A House decision is a crapshoot for Biden and Trump. It's also a moral defeat for the voters, who will have to stand by and watch Washington pols pick the president.
Worst, it will plunge the nation in a leaderless void from early November until early January, a perilous situation.
There's still time to prevent this potential chaos by processing mail-in ballots as they're received and requiring that they're mailed a week before the election.
How hard is that?
Democrats who oppose these simple reforms have a different agenda: anarchy in the streets, mobs demanding a Biden victory, and a president, ultimately, chosen behind the scenes long after election night.
Just a part of cancelling everything until you elect people “we” like.
Democrats are corrupt scum. They will openly steal the election. And little is being done.
” This time, Congress should stave off a crisis by requiring all states to count mail-in ballots in time for election night. “
I think Federal law says that people need to cast their vote on or before election day. That would mean postmarked by Election Day. So, impossible to have results by election night. Even the IRS allows postmarked by April 15th.
The message they’re sending is we should prepare for massive election fraud; by Democrats.
Makes no sense to allow votes counted for an extended period beyond election night. It’s no big secret understanding what Democrats are doing in asking for this. The only late votes that need be counted are the ones coming in from military personnel that are stationed overseas. I think the Democrats know they are predominately Republican votes. Any improper voting or election tampering should carry a good stiff prison sentence.
I don’t like counting mail in ballots early. That just helps the democrats know how much they need to cheat at the ballot box.
there should be a better way to count mail in ballots that makes it more efficient/quicker without requiring people to read the vote early.
This is BS though.
Polling booths close at 8pm in a lot of places, so you can still go to a post office if it’s open and get it mailed by 12pm? Or what if you’re in a different time zone or out of country?
I think reasonable delivery times should be considered and then the states should have a requirement for you to be able to check if your ballot has been received. So for that to happen it must be delivered early enough for the state to get the ballot process who sent the ballot (don’t tabulate the vote though...that waits until election night).
--and this Congress is about as likely to act as I am to fly by flapping my arms and growling , imitating an engine--
BS or not, it’s too late to change the law for this Election Day. They have to decide the interpretation....received by or postmarked by.
“ In the days or weeks afterward, a Trump victory will be beaten back and undone as mail-in ballots tip the election for Joe Biden,”
Who in the hell do these democrats think they are? I say when there is a landslide for Trump on Election Day we declare victory and walk away. They will NOT steal this election through the mail. Anything not postmarked by and counted by the election is too late. Dem officials will pay a steep price for such shenanigans.
It’s not too late. The democrats are currently changing the laws in their favor, so why can’t we?
I have never personally understood why.. when it says very clearly in the constitution what day the election is suppose to be on, that we allow voting on any other day.
It has to be voted on & that takes time.
Youtube: 25m18s: 6 Aug: THE GREAT RESET: Davos & the Plot to Cancel Trump
by The Remnant
From the Editor’s Desk, Michael Matt takes a look at some good news regarding the Covid recovery rate before exploring what’s really going on with the global pandemic.
To understand this, he takes us to Switzerland—to the World Economic Forum—where the movers and shakers of the world have been meeting on a regular basis, especially since January 2020, to plan ‘The Great Reset’ at the Davos 2021 Summit in January.
Using multiple video clips, Michael shows how everyone from Soros, to Gates, to Schwab, to Al Gore and the Secretary-General of the United Nations are only too eager to admit that Covid offers them a rare opportunity to reset the world economy, population control, global commerce, climate change regulation, education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals in order to “reorder,” “reimagine” and fundamentally transform every aspect of life as we know it.
Is this the rest of the story behind the Russia hoax, Ukraine, the phony impeachment and all the other deep state attempts to cripple Trump’s efforts to ‘make America great again”?
The folks at Davos want a new world order, and the only thing standing in their way at the moment is US. And if they get their New Normal, nothing will be the same ever again...unless, perhaps, if Donald Trump wins in November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9jRqgDOJ8
Huh? Like a day of they want to pass it. Or we can just surrender now to make it easy.
A blast from the past to help everything get through today’s BS polling numbers:
quote “With the nation closing ranks behind the President in a crisis, Jimmy Carter
has swept to a massive 59-36 percent lead over Ronald Reagan in the latest ABC News
Harris Survey test.
ROFL
It goes to Congress. They won’t vote on it in a day. Get real.
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