Posted on 11/09/2022 11:18:49 AM PST by Bratch
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots (counted) and votes (cast). It appears in some states this is the ‘new normal.’
Where votes were the focus the Biden administration suffered losses. Where ballots were the focus the Biden administration won.
Perhaps the two states most reflective of ‘ballots’ being more important than ‘votes’ are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Despite negative polling and public opinion toward two specific candidates in those states, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, achieved victories. The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection more heavily than votes cast.
Since the advent of ballot-centric focus through mail-in processes and collection drop off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes. As a direct and specific result, ballot collection has become the key to Democrat party success.
The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.
It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different voting systems.
The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.
A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual.
While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both “ballots” and “votes,” weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.
While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of “expanding democracy,” a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.
The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making ‘ballots’ the strategy for electoral success. Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage. Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.
Democrat party officials and political activist groups knew how to exploit the opportunities within the new system of ballot distribution and collection, and when you combine that with a massive legal pressure campaign to accept any and all forms of ballots, well, you can see how they are dependent.
Now that ballot collection has been shown to be a much more effective way to maintain political power, Democrats in a general sense are less focused on winning votes and more focused on gathering ballots.
When ‘ballot organization’ becomes more important than ‘vote winning,’ you modify your electoral campaign approaches accordingly. It might sound simplistic, but inside the distinct difference between ballots and votes you will find why refusing debates is a successful strategy.
If you are trying to win votes you could never fathom campaign success by refusing to debate an opponent. However, if your focus is centered around ballot collection, the debate is essentially irrelevant.
It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes. Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different election systems.
You can vote at any scale you want, but when ballots are more important than votes – the election will always favor the latter.
Michigan and Pennsylvania voters are likely very unhappy today, while Michigan and Pennsylvania ballot providers are smiling.
The GOP simply reverts to its default position.
the people are going to have to take a lot more pain
before they start saying
this aint right
Florida is the example of what to do to clean up election fraud. Look at the results! Did the other states do any of that? Did the Republican leaders get on board cleaning things up? Did Trump make any efforts to clean things up after his loss?
That would be the first thing any sane person would do. The Republicans have only themselves to blame. They are worse morons than Fetterman. They fell for the “red wave,” they fell for “39% Biden approval rating”, they fell for the “70% feels the country is heading in the wrong direction”, they fell for the idea that Oz had the same odds of winning if he was up against a garden slug. They fell for from the same crap that caused them to continually lose...
So the Republicans are more moronic than Fetterman. Fetterman is a genius compared to them. They wasted so much money to get tepid results that one suspects Republicans are really the garden slugs. So blame the American people who elect these morons and who elects a disastrous Joe Biden. But at least Fetterman & Biden are getting the results they want.
The Republican Party = The Stupid Party!
Florida is the example of what to do to clean up election fraud. Look at the results! Did the other states do any of that? Did the Republican leaders get on board cleaning things up? Did Trump make any efforts to clean things up after his loss?
That would be the first thing any sane person would do. The Republicans have only themselves to blame.
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Nailed it!!!
“It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes.”
Why? Voters seem to be for the most part irrelevant now. The elites discovered it is much easier to convince a ballot who to vote for than it is to convince a voter who to vote for, so they have replaced us.
“That would be the first thing any sane person would do.”
Well, I’d say the first thing any sane person would do is get rid of all the party leaders who are pretending that everything is normal. Until you do that, they’ll just sabotage your efforts to root out the actual problem, because that problem is obviously benefiting them even if it harms the party as a whole.
Dr. Steve Turley has an excellent analysis of what happened and what it means. He is on youtube and rumble. He said most incumbents won, that blue states got bluer and red states got redder, and the country has hardened even more in the split between red and blue. He said it is a sign of the increasing cultural and political balkanization of the US, which can only lead to future calls for secession.
Sort of like the difference between a sham democracy and a Constitutional Republic.
The author makes the compelling point that in any jurisdiction where mail-in voting is permitted, campaign appearances and advertising may be a total waste of resources — because they are far less important than simply going out and making sure voters fill out ballots with your candidate’s name on them.
“He said it is a sign of the increasing cultural and political balkanization of the US, which can only lead to future calls for secession.”
The chances of a succession succeeding is slim, especially since those with opposing political views are spread out among the states. You’d only be able to pull something like that off if the majority of the supporters of both parties were better separated by region. As it is now the separation is primarily between large cities vs those in rural and less heavily populated areas.
I hate this mail in crap with the white hot heat of a thousand burning suns. But dammit we have 2 years to learn the laws and games or we will be right back here in 2024.
Our side never learns to play like the Dems.
Note I searched Free Republic for this story using the word “ballot” and discovered another interesting fact. Most of the stories post from the MSM about an election in the last few months used the wording “So in so was ahead in ballots”. Not the polls, not in potential votes or even with potential voters, no just BALLOTS!
Early teenaged-me loved that movie!
The author makes the compelling point that in any jurisdiction where mail-in voting is permitted, campaign appearances and advertising may be a total waste of resources — because they are far less important than simply going out and making sureFixed.voters fillsomeone fills out ballots with your candidate’s name on them.
I used to think that the Republican leadership in DC was the “stupid party”. When I realized that they were actually the “complicit party”. I stopped expecting them to do anything for the benefit of ordinary American citizens. It is infuriating but at least I am no longer disappointed.
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