Posted on 10/21/2020 4:30:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most people supporting President Trump in this election are confident that he will get more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, but they fear that fraudulent mail-in ballots will steal or delay the election results. After analyzing state voting laws -- and the 2016 electoral map -- I feel confident in saying that neither is a likely outcome.
First, only ten states mail ballots to every voter on their registration rolls. Those states have faced justified criticism for risking their results' integrity because voter rolls are outdated and make verifying identity difficult. But under the Electoral College system, this issue won't affect the outcome of the election. Eight of those ten states went blue in 2016, and the other two -- Utah and Arizona -- are likely to stay red. Vote by mail will not affect the outcome of the election because it is mostly done in states that Trump does not need to win.
The second group of concern is the 14 states, including Ohio, who mailed absentee ballot applications -- not ballots -- to all of their "registered voters."
Unlike blanket mailing of ballots, this system allows for voter verification and provides the state's Board of Elections with an accurate count of ballots to expect on Election Day -- which is handy if there are issues with mail delivery.
In all, 35 of the 45 states allowing absentee voting are doing so with a ballot request requirement. Widespread use means most election boards will have accurate information -- like who received a ballot before the election and how many are still in circulation -- when verifying their state's results.
So, unless the number of outstanding absentee ballots is greater than the margin of victory for Trump, they will not matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Does the author take into account the states where the court allowed counting to continue past election day, and accepting un-postmarked ballots?
Seems Michael Savage still has not gotten the filter between his brain and his mouth working yet.
...oops, that comment was meant for a different article...nevermind...
The problem is the blue states dragging their feet to announce the results even though you know Biden won the state. By not announcing Biden doesn’t concede and the country is in turmoil.
How is that a problem?
Fortunately, conceding is not mentioned in any law as part of the presidential election process and is not required. It’s as much a fiction in presidential elections as the “popular vote.”
The problem is the blue states dragging their feet to announce the results even though you know Biden won the state. By not announcing Biden doesn’t concede and the country is in turmoil.
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Once Pres. Trump passes 270 electoral votes, it’s irrelevant if a blue state announces the results. It’s like an errant child threatening to hold its breath.
Maybe I missed it but I didn’t see record in-person voter turnout mentioned.
If you had taken the time to read the article, rather than doing a FReeper post {i.e. post first read only if embarrassed by your post} you'd have known your question was redundant.
Look it up.
Once Trump passes 270, it does not matter if they report. Trump has still won. To refuse to concede once your opponent has a majority, regardless of what is outstanding, is stupid. Their ONLY hope is that a state that is going to Trump like AZ or UT pulls shenanigans to give them cover, but that would only work if the election is a lot tighter than 2016, which I dont think it will be. I could see this being over before the West Coast reports.
Did you read the article?
Mean culpa!
I went and checked; author said the delay would be at most 3 days after election day.
Also said a lot of folks are esrly-voting and voting in person, and any absentee votes are already in.
Matters not if the EC vote that comes in is tallied and equals
270 or greater. Then that candidate has won regardless of the
other EC votes that aren’t counted.
Oh good, that makes a huge difference.
Mail in ballot counting is not meant to stop a victory... It’s a ruse so the media can avoid declaring a Trump victory. It gives them an excuse to not acknowledge Trump winning the election, which in turn will lead to rioting and violence from Trump haters in the days following the election.
I fear for Florida, just because it’s always close. After that, I’m concerned about North Carolina and Pennsylvania because of RAT governors allowing RAT shenanigans to push through thousands of fake ballots.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota also have RAT governors but I’m less worried about them, particularly Minnesota, since Trump didn’t even win it last time.
Arizona is a concern on multiple levels.
We also need to be concerned about the Senate races because a RAT House and/or a RAT Senate means four more years of impeachment and investigations.
Trump really needs 300 or more EVs to survive. If he just crosses the finish line with 270-290 EVs, you can bet the RATS will try a Florida 2000 to flip a state for Biden that was Trump’s on election night. That’s really what the whole mail-in morass is about - stealing a state after the fact and using any resource necessary to claim the results are illegitimate.
“...you’d have known your question was redundant”
You know “redundant”. You look it up in the dictionary and it says “see: redundant”.
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