The problem is many people have been seduced into having Plan B, become their Plan A. It's like divorce....people used to talk, sort out their problems, and engage in hard work to stay together and honor your commitment. That was Plan A. PlanB, divorce, was a rarity. Then, progressivism took hold, hard work fell out of favor, selfishness trumped marital sacrifice, divorce became easier, and many people now call the divorce lawyer if their spouse changes the channel. Plan B, become Plan A.
We are at a similar fork in the road. Don't let progressivism wreck elections. Stick with Plan A.
Make election day election day.
There are so many ways for the cheating Democrats to neutralize or even offset any of our early votes. Especially mail-in votes. The USPS (who are 100% in league with the Democrats) can conspire to "lose" our votes along the way. It is very easy to watermark any ballots that go to known Republicans and even Independents.
Or they can get to the polling place where Democrats can tape the windows with butcher paper so we can't see, then substitute our votes with votes for the Democrats, while using our external envelopes to make it look like a real ballot.
So if anybody here voted early, please know that you most likely voted for the Democrats. It's up to the rest of us to get there on Election Day and vote in person.
Indeed.
Being real, in person, at one time is the best way to ensure NON-banana-republic society.
I fill out my mailed ballot and put it in a collection box on election day.
I’ve never voted any other way, even through all the years I worked various shifts. When they allowed early voting, unlimited absentee ballots, etc., they opened the door for the ability of malevolent people to commit even more voter fraud.
Look, this is just ramping up the process that began in Florida in the aftermath of the 2000 Presidential election. The objective is to use process changes and technology in voting to create DELIBERATE AMBIGUITY about the results to enable increasingly inventive forms of cheating.
The first time I remember going with my Dad when he voted was 1960, New York had these wonderful mechanical voting machines where you changed the state of a mechanical lever to vote, and opened the curtain with a big red lever which locked your votes and reset the levers. These machines were invented to limit paper ballot cheating, but like paper ballots, they would yield a tally by the early morning hours of the following day, and that was that. Yes, you could recount the ballots or re-tally the machines, but the results existed in physical form in the possession of authorities (i.e., the results were “analog”). In essence, “Election Day” was when everything happened and by Wednesday morning it was over.
What has been happening since 2000 (and maybe before) is the use of media, and technology, to create a condition where nobody knows what the result truly is - nobody knows how many votes were cast, nobody knows which votes count and which ones don’t, and the final tally can change for days and even weeks (or until the Democrat wins). Most of the results, and now a lot of the votes themselves, are no longer analog but digital, and exist only as an ordered set of electrons, subject to change in many ways by many people.
This has created a fundamental change in public perception, and you can see it even here on FR. People go on and on about whether or not a winner has been “declared”, usually by media people who have no access to the real data. As electronic voting, and now even apps meant to run on handhelds, define reality, we may be approaching or already be at the point where most people are accepting of the proposition that “nobody knows who won, we have to rerun the program, we have to call in the experts, it was Russian bots, it was Craig Livingstone, etc., etc.).
This problem is of course compounded by early voting, mail-in voting, drop boxes, absentee voting, overseas voting, etc.
On election night in 1932, everybody knew that FDR had won a big victory - that in a country with no electronic media, no computers, and half paralyzed by depression. On election night in 1952, there were more votes for Eisenhower than Stevenson, and everybody knew THAT.
Eight years ago (a century in digital years), Hugh Hewitt wrote a book called, “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat”. As long as people believe that only digital wizards can actually determine the result, that may no longer be true.
If we could conduct and tally elections in 1932 and 1952, we should be able to do it now - except that would upset our masters, who have worked so hard to create the status quo. They certainly won’t give it up without a fight.
bttt
I also check the voter registration lists for dead relatives. Someone registered my mother to vote two times after she died (in 2016 and again in 2020). Both times I was able to get her removed from the rolls before any mail in ballots were sent out.
Make election day a national holiday.
The only people who can vote by mail are the military. Polling places could be guarded by National Guard.
Nursing homes could have their own polling place, guarded by the National Guard.
The National Guard would protect all of the ballots.
Poll watchers from both parties would also be allowed to watch, but in no way interfere with the National Guard.
(Just spit balling)
Best option of all - take your mail in ballot to the polls on election day.
“DITCH MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND VOTE IN PERSON ON ELECTION DAY”
I would, but I am bedridden due to amputation two-weeks ago. Can’t move, lots of pain.
In the 50s you simply went to the location to vote on Tuesday, election day. You did this or you did not vote. Everybody knew this. On one or two of them, my father took me. The booth had a flimsy gray curtain of sorts. My dad lifted me up to reach at the actual levers, for the candidates he wanted, and pull them down. Then we left
The wait was 10 minutes or so
Im not even voting early
There are people who have legitimate reasons to vote by mail. They should be required to apply for ballots ahead of the election. There should absolutely no unsolicited mail in ballots sent out as is the case in Texas. In Texas we have a very generous 12 day in person early voting period that ends the Friday before election day. Furthermore the early votes are tabulated the weekend before election day and promptly released just after poll closing time.
Um… the father of mail in ballots is saying this? Well that’s confusing, if we are all being honest.
I never vote early.. always Election Day. It is the American blood of sacrifice and being proudly uncomfortable. I hate waiting in line, so it’s kinda a reminder that some things are more important than my own convenience.
We do need to vote, in person, on Election Day - but the cheating takes place during the weeks before the election, and during the days after election.
Long before Election Day, they are flooding the system with unverified and unrequested ballots.
Long before Election Day, they are weakening and suspending verification procedures.
In the days after the election, they are gathering, altering, and counting illegitimate ballots. They are “adjudicating” rejected ballots without proper observance by representatives of both parties.
People show up on Election Day and get told they can’t vote the system has already recorded a supposedly mailed in ballot in their name.
It’s not enough to vote on Election Day - somebody has to watch them like a hawk before and after - during all the election activities.