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RNC chair defends mail-in voting, even as Trump trashes the practice
NBC News ^ | 12/7/2022 | Henry Gomez

Posted on 12/07/2022 2:05:32 PM PST by semimojo

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel unequivocally endorsed mail-in balloting Tuesday, distancing herself from former President Donald Trump on an issue that is fracturing the GOP in the wake of disappointing election results this fall.

“What we do need is our voters need to vote early,” McDaniel, a longtime Trump ally, said during a televised interview on Fox News. “I have said this over and over again. There were many in 2020 saying, ‘Don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early.’ And we have to stop that.”...

"The discussion was about Democrats having a month to bank votes while Republicans expect to get it done in one day," RNC spokesperson Nathan Brand said in a statement to NBC News. "We were not talking about the former president, who has encouraged his base to vote early and has himself voted by mail."

But Trump, who already has launched a 2024 presidential campaign, also is the most prominent skeptic of voting by mail. He continues to raise false and unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part through vote-by-mail programs in battleground states. As recently as last week on his Truth Social website, he wrote, in all capital letters for emphasis: “YOU CAN NEVER HAVE FAIR & FREE ELECTIONS WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS — NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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To: semimojo

Defend it if you are stupid, for the peril is in the mail-in balloting that has few controls to ensure they are even valid votes by real citizens.


41 posted on 12/07/2022 2:51:04 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Wayne07

Many Republicans also vote by mail or early voting.


42 posted on 12/07/2022 2:53:40 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: semimojo

France had mass mail in voting, but they banned it in 1975 after massive corruption was exposed. Now they have paper ballots, put in envelopes by the voter, deposited in transparent boxes and counted on site. No mail in ballots, no early voting. No bundling up ballots and carrying them to some designated “counting center.” No fraud and corruption of the electoral process.


43 posted on 12/07/2022 2:57:12 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: semimojo

So they are telling me that there there is no chance of fraud? Wow.


44 posted on 12/07/2022 2:59:26 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: semimojo
The RNC chairperson is behaving like a boxer who considers left hooks cheating, and refuses to use them.
45 posted on 12/07/2022 2:59:30 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: semimojo
The Republicans aren't going to "bank" anything.

The ballot pool for the Rats consists of an unending list of names from all County welfare recipients and SSI, EDD, and DMV clients, just some among endless government agencies. All pound recipents endlessly with ballot registration forms and constant reminders to vote.

Who knows what they are doing with their massive immigration bureaucracy. An endless candy store there.

Unions have been strong-arming their members for decades. No doubt every federal, state, and county employee has voting marching orders. And let's not forget Santa's little helpers at the United States Post Office.

Anyone who thinks the GOP could actually benefit from mail-in voting, early or otherwise, is incredibly naive. This mail-in scheme is a sucker's game for our side.

46 posted on 12/07/2022 3:00:04 PM PST by truthkeeper
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To: semimojo
Of course she did. Ronna is a Romney (literally) and a UniParty princess.

Our attitude should be as follows: Mail-in balloting should be banned except for the military and the disabled -- as it used to be. HOWEVER, as long as it is allowed, we should freaking leverage the situation to the hilt, and get better at it than the Democrats ever dreamed we could. Once that happens...they will advocate to have the practice banned.
47 posted on 12/07/2022 3:00:41 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: semimojo

This woman along with Mitch McConnell needs to go.


48 posted on 12/07/2022 3:02:44 PM PST by navymom1
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To: PerConPat
Oooops...apologies Ronna... I read the original article way too fast.
49 posted on 12/07/2022 3:03:08 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: cuban leaf
"The deep state / uniparty loves mail in voting."

The "election industry" also loves it, and anything else that extends or generates more revenue for Swamp consultants, fixers, lawyers, etc.

Elections, and all related activity, are a dramatically growing aspect of the US Economy, just as Personal Injury Lawyers were, and brothels before them.

I wonder if some type of mail-in or hybrid voting was going on during the waning days of the Roman Empire?
50 posted on 12/07/2022 3:03:44 PM PST by indthkr
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To: semimojo

Professional Politicians love mail-in cheating


51 posted on 12/07/2022 3:04:18 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: semimojo

RNC can GTH!


52 posted on 12/07/2022 3:04:58 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: semimojo; All

I would outlaw mail in frauding. Mail ins would only be accepted if signature of voter has been notarized. Stop screwing around with this fraud crap.


53 posted on 12/07/2022 3:06:09 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Skywise

needs to be litigated


54 posted on 12/07/2022 3:10:43 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: gibsonguy

Mail-in voting is THE means by which the UniParty most reliably retains power

It disenfranchises every taxpayer in favor of the Federal and state dependents

It is NO DIFFERENT than SLAVERY-under the veneer of the modern state mechanism


55 posted on 12/07/2022 3:12:48 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: srmanuel

Better yet, we cut all this crap out and return to voting day voting. You get there to vote or you don’t vote.

Two day voting at the most. Why is it we succumb to what RATs decide we are are going to do? Ever since they got their way we have had massive cheating.

What you are giving in to is seeing who does the best job outcheating the other side.

That is not voting. One man or woman, one vote. That is fair voting.


56 posted on 12/07/2022 3:15:19 PM PST by dforest (What are we sittin' around for? )
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Yeah, in nevada its brilliant, they mail ballots out to every name of every person who was ever alive or dead whether they live here or not to every address whether it exists or not, and we are supposed to believe nobody collects fake ballots under fake names to fake addresses


57 posted on 12/07/2022 3:16:06 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: semimojo

Ballots in Churches, ballots at gun shows, and everywhere else Conservatives gather. Go house to House. Stick it up the Leftists but. CA. has shown the way.


58 posted on 12/07/2022 3:16:35 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: Robert DeLong
Many Republicans also vote by mail or early voting.

Well over 80% of Arizonans vote by mail and it's been extremely popular for decades.

Even when AZ was reliably red.

59 posted on 12/07/2022 3:18:22 PM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo

The RNC isn’t going to like my letter they’ll be receiving in their donation envelope.


60 posted on 12/07/2022 3:20:09 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (P)
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