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Senate Democrat: Mail-in ballots needed because GOP trying to stop 'people of color from voting'
Fox News ^ | May 20 2020 | Sam Dorman

Posted on 05/20/2020 11:53:46 AM PDT by knighthawk

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., pushed mail-in voting as a way to counter alleged Republican attempts to suppress minority votes.

“It's really a great system," Merkley said, referring to mail-in voting. "One of those valuable things, which will become more and more important is it stops so many forms of voter suppression and voter intimidation. The Republicans are trying to stop poor people from voting, they’re trying to stop college students from voting, people of color from voting, Indian tribes from voting."

He made those comments during a Tuesday interview with Sirius XM host Dean Obeidallah. Merkley added that mail-in balloting prevents Republicans from engaging in "tricks," like long wait times, that would suppress the vote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 2020election; ballots; clintonnonnews; cnn; deanobeidallah; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; jeffmerkley; mailin; mediawingofthednc; nationalpopularvote; npv; oregon; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: knighthawk
Merkley is an idiot, always was, always will be. But his constituency (West Coast libs) eat this up. Plus, no media types ever ask “Gosh Jeff, could you help us understand how a photo ID requirement and in person voting suppresses minorities”. The more outlandish the statement, the more often its repeated as truth. Its embarrassing to live in Oregon with a guy like this representing our state.
21 posted on 05/20/2020 12:14:40 PM PDT by blues-train (blues train)
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To: knighthawk

And that’s all I need to know that this entire movement is fake and the Democrats are using it to cheat.


22 posted on 05/20/2020 12:18:15 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m sure that they are already filled out for them.


23 posted on 05/20/2020 12:19:15 PM PDT by southernindymom ( IT)
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To: knighthawk

Way to go Oregon, you elected another moonbat wackjob lying sack of shit.


24 posted on 05/20/2020 12:26:05 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: knighthawk

It would be OK with me if we allowed colored people the right to vote by mail.

But ONLY colored people.

And require that even one half of one percent of all mail in ballots found to be fraudulent would IMMEDIATELY invalidate ALL mail in ballots. Toss ‘em.

Those allowances would totally piss off the liberals. Because they know their bluff would be called and it would not change matters.


25 posted on 05/20/2020 12:28:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: originalbuckeye

thanks to Dean Logan - then the KC Elections director and now the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in LA Count CA.


26 posted on 05/20/2020 12:29:01 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: knighthawk

Aborted babies never get to vote either, and many of them are “of color”.


27 posted on 05/20/2020 12:40:17 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: knighthawk

No one has worked harder than President Trump to get out the black vote.


28 posted on 05/20/2020 12:44:52 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: knighthawk
What Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore is saying people of color are too dumb to vote in person. Merkley is a jackass.
29 posted on 05/20/2020 12:52:20 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: knighthawk

YOU , yourself is the only one that stops you from voting


30 posted on 05/20/2020 12:53:08 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: knighthawk

Yeah, we need mail-in ballots so the dead PoC can vote.


31 posted on 05/20/2020 12:55:15 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: knighthawk

Any election rule change proposed by Democrats is designed to enable voter fraud. I think its clear that Democrats want social distancing to never end so they can steal elections remotely.

If a person doesn’t show up at a poll with a photo ID and a brith certificate, he should be prevented from voting.


32 posted on 05/20/2020 12:55:57 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: knighthawk

A true democrat would say that republicans want mail-in because republicans know minorities cannot write.

(Both lower case on purpose.)


33 posted on 05/20/2020 12:56:18 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: knighthawk

If Fox were truly conservative, headline would be:

“Democrats plan on stealing elections by allowing illegals and nonresidents to vote, unmonitored voting, and other acts of voting fraud to occur, while restricting the rights of actual voters.”


34 posted on 05/20/2020 12:58:28 PM PDT by Swirl
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To: knighthawk

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., pushed mail-in voting as a way to counter alleged Republican attempts to suppress minority votes.
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As opposed to “Absentee Ballots”.

Mail in means ballots are sent to everyone on the voting rolls, which in many large blue states includes thousands, tens of thousands, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of people who are dead, illegal, missing, moved, or have never actually voted themselves.

Ballot collect at apartment complexes, vacant houses, collective addresses (where homeless were listed when registered) etc. Ballots are then collected filled out, and mass delivered to the supervisor of elections, sometime days after the election.

It’s the Dem/Socialist way.

No one should get an absentee ballot without presenting a valid government issued ID, and with a valid reason for not being able to come in person to vote (invalids, out of state or country, or in the military).


35 posted on 05/20/2020 1:00:12 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: knighthawk

I think voting shouldn’t be too easy. Each voter should have to make an effort to get up off the couch to vote, IN PERSON, presenting a valid identification, and add in a purple finger so they can’t vote “early and often”, à la Chicago Dems.


36 posted on 05/20/2020 1:00:24 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: knighthawk

How can they say these blatant lies I just don’t get it.


37 posted on 05/20/2020 1:01:55 PM PDT by funfan
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To: knighthawk

Really? In liberal states? Sorry I haven’t seen too many black riots about left wing democraps denying their right to vote? And it always seems to be in Blues states.


38 posted on 05/20/2020 1:02:52 PM PDT by Bommer (t'am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: knighthawk

Fraud-by-mail.

Wal-Mart for an hour OK.

Voting machines 6 feet apart for 5 minutes not OK.

Lets put the voting machines in Walmart.

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39 posted on 05/20/2020 1:07:05 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: knighthawk; All

In certain areas of the country mail is not delivered to a residence but to a post office box holder. Any ballot so addressed should not be allowed because the recipient’s resident citizenship cannot be proven.Any such ballot not containing the voters residential address should be challenged .


40 posted on 05/20/2020 1:08:36 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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