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Drop boxes have become key to election conspiracy theories. Two Democrats just fueled those claims
APNews ^ | 10/08/2023

Posted on 10/08/2023 1:32:08 PM PDT by devane617

A woman approaches a drop box in the dark with what appears to be handfuls of ballots. At a different drop box, someone else is seen making multiple trips to insert ballots. At yet another, the same car stops on at least three separate occasions, with different people stepping out and heading to the box.

It’s not a trailer for the latest conspiracy movie about rigged elections. Instead, the video footage has become central to a real-world controversy over potential fraud involving ballot drop boxes, a favorite target of right-wing conspiracy theorists since former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

The accusations of drop box fraud are not coming from those pushing fringe election claims or from skeptical Republicans who have long favored eliminating or severely restricting use of the boxes. They are being made by Democrats -- two candidates vying for mayor in Connecticut’s largest city, in a heavily Democratic state that began allowing drop boxes to be used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; absenteevoters; connecticut; covid; covid19; dropboxes; electionfraud; fraud; voterfraud
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1 posted on 10/08/2023 1:32:08 PM PDT by devane617
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To: devane617

“fraud involving ballot drop boxes, a favorite target of right-wing conspiracy theorists”

The so-called “news” media doesn’t even pretend to be non-partisan anymore.


2 posted on 10/08/2023 1:38:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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AP is the definition of biased journalism. So it's believable when a Democrat reports it but when a Republican reports it the report is from a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
3 posted on 10/08/2023 1:45:49 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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To: devane617

It ain’t a “theory” after it’s been proven.


4 posted on 10/08/2023 1:45:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: devane617
this Drop Box crap is merely a sideshow distraction to show a pattern of "No Widespread Election Fraud" and widespread right wing conspiracy nutz questioning elections

Another tactic is busting some Republican and giving prison time for turning in his dead wife's ballot (true story)

another good one is prosecuting an election official for attempting to gather evidence of voter fraud and calling it " an attempt to overturn an election"

Once they go to "all mail in" , like Oregon and WA , there will be no more questioning ballots, it will all be tidy and swift and they will announce the results before they even bother to finish counting (like Oregon and WA)

5 posted on 10/08/2023 1:54:37 PM PDT by KTM rider (2 party system = a system of mind control to make the people HATE each other instead of Them)
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To: devane617
Amusing.

When the Democrats run out of Republican opponents to cheat, they start in on each other.

6 posted on 10/08/2023 2:03:31 PM PDT by flamberge (Slowly, and then all at once.)
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Ha.

Because they’re doing it against each other they expose and admit it.


7 posted on 10/08/2023 2:12:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if there is a far-right rapper who could riff this out and call it “2023 Newspeak”:

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8 posted on 10/08/2023 2:18:42 PM PDT by Migraine
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I recommend patriots cruise around their cities, towns, ... look for drop boxes.

If they find one, pull out all the “ballots” and BURN THEM.

They can refill the box with their own ballots if they want.


9 posted on 10/08/2023 2:19:51 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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They caught the Mayor’s staff stuffing to ballot box on a video. So the loser was mad and claimed the Mayor cheated! Now they caught the “loser’s” staff stuffing the ballot box. Now the “loser” is mad because he got out cheated..... 🤣🤣🤣


10 posted on 10/08/2023 2:24:27 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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Courts are allowing serious restrictions on drop boxes but it’s up to state legislatures to pass laws. Locking drop boxes at night, removing them from street corners and placing them at public buildings, and cutting way back on the number of boxes are all ok if the laws are written correctly.


11 posted on 10/08/2023 3:02:09 PM PDT by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: devane617

The accusations are being made by Democrats.

Who knows how the system operates more than a democrat.


12 posted on 10/08/2023 3:13:06 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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When I was an election judge in Illinois I got to watch Democrats cheating Democrats every primary... but it was for all practical purposes “legal” because the ones in power legalized the cheating method by making a “remedy” that locked in the fraud.
The remedy for what should have been a spoiled ballot was to require judges to count the ballots that were spoiled using the best guess method, like Al Gore’s pregnant chad scam. If a ballot wasn’t properly voted with an obvious hole next to the candidate’s name we were required to guess the non-existent voter’s intention by punching out the Chad nearest to where a pinhole was.
Officials told us this was bbecause black women wore hats to the voting precinct and so used hat pins to vote with instead of the provided stylus.
That was a lie, of course... the pinholes were not made by voters, but by cheating election workers in districts where few voters that were registered bothered to show up. They often missed the mark because the pins bent when jammed through stacked ballots as the cheaters rushed to get the job done of faking ballots.
But we were required by law to count them....and if anyone objected they would likely be branded racists, since these charitable precincts were in black areas. They needed registered but no-show voters to carry out the cheat, so as to get enough unmarked ballots from the counties. So powerful incumbents easily cheated against black candidates that were outsiders and didn’t know the scheme.
Not sure how they do it with the machines but the Dems had cheating down to an art form with the paper ballots in Illinois.


13 posted on 10/08/2023 3:31:01 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Gotta luv Ape Pee newz...


14 posted on 10/08/2023 3:31:48 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 10/08/2023 4:39:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Roadrunner383
Locking drop boxes at night, removing them from street corners and placing them at public buildings, and cutting way back on the number of boxes are all ok if the laws are written correctly.

...So, just add in staff to watch it during the day, and we can call it a polling location!
16 posted on 10/08/2023 4:45:09 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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Put super glue on the dropbox lids.


17 posted on 10/08/2023 8:30:35 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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