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I brought this up awhile back about the concern for how voting would unfold this fall. Unfortunately it looks like some states are deciding to do mail in voting only.

“Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all registered voters in the crucial general election battleground state will be mailed an application to vote by mail in November so they do not have to risk exposure to the coronavirus by going out to the polls.”

www.foxnews.com

Trump threatens to hold back funding to states over 'rogue' moves on mail-in voting

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan and Nevada over their decisions to enact widespread mail-in voting in the upcoming election, claiming the moves were "done illegally" and will lead to voter fraud.
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snowlover91 said:
I brought this up awhile back about the concern for how voting would unfold this fall. Unfortunately it looks like some states are deciding to do mail in voting only.

“Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all registered voters in the crucial general election battleground state will be mailed an application to vote by mail in November so they do not have to risk exposure to the coronavirus by going out to the polls.”

www.foxnews.com

Trump threatens to hold back funding to states over 'rogue' moves on mail-in voting

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan and Nevada over their decisions to enact widespread mail-in voting in the upcoming election, claiming the moves were "done illegally" and will lead to voter fraud.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
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What's the concern? Other states have been doing it for years without problems. It only seems to be a problem for the folks that don't want certain segments of the population to vote. Which is why they cut back on polling places, hours, etc normally when they get in charge. Plus all the gerrymandering to the nth degree they do to skew the representation away from what the distribution should be from what's seen in the vote totals.
 
snowlover91 said:
I brought this up awhile back about the concern for how voting would unfold this fall. Unfortunately it looks like some states are deciding to do mail in voting only.

“Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all registered voters in the crucial general election battleground state will be mailed an application to vote by mail in November so they do not have to risk exposure to the coronavirus by going out to the polls.”

www.foxnews.com

Trump threatens to hold back funding to states over 'rogue' moves on mail-in voting

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan and Nevada over their decisions to enact widespread mail-in voting in the upcoming election, claiming the moves were "done illegally" and will lead to voter fraud.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
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Why is that unfortunate? All states should offer remote voting too all citizens.
 
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Steven_1974 said:
What's the concern? Other states have been doing it for years without problems. It only seems to be a problem for the folks that don't want certain segments of the population to vote. Which is why they cut back on polling places, hours, etc normally when they get in charge. Plus all the gerrymandering to the nth degree they do to skew the representation away from what the distribution should be from what's seen in the vote totals.
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Perhaps I misunderstood the article, but it sounds like they are mailing them to every voter? Although widespread voter fraud hasn’t been proven, this article below outlines how the process of mailed ballots can increase the chances of it and some concerns about it.

 
crecre9 said:
And that fact alone will be the proof of why it should happen and expose the reason why so many do not want it to.
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I noticed in a state or two they were thinking of doing it even though as Republicans they usually fight tooth and nail against it.

If you couldn't do the gerrymandering like you can with the aid of computers these days to massively turn the tables in your favor, we wouldn't have these extreme people running for office and winning the jobs. Maybe we'd have a little more sense and working together instead of hat we ended up with.

Trying to do all you can so parts of the population find it very hard to get out and exercise their right vote cause of limited polling places, limited hours, limited early voting, etc is no way to run a country unless you don't want them to have a say in it at all. Hence why they'd rather not let people get one by mail so they can do so from home and send it back in. They know they'd lose the power they wrote in for themselves.
 
crecre9 said:
And that fact alone will be the proof of why it should happen and expose the reason why so many do not want it to.
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The fact is the GOP do not want it because the youth which is much more Dem leaning would vote and the Dems want it because it would help the Youth who lean heavily Dem vote who either don’t care or are too lazy to go to the polls.

I’m not one who beats the voter fraud drum, but it would definitely increase among family members. Probably on both sides.
 
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Eventually everyone has a breaking point. The lockdowns from the virus finally made this man snap.
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The man wasn't homeless without a reason and he has to be very unstable even before this attack
Steven_1974 said:
I noticed in a state or two they were thinking of doing it even though as Republicans they usually fight tooth and nail against it.

If you couldn't do the gerrymandering like you can with the aid of computers these days to massively turn the tables in your favor, we wouldn't have these extreme people running for office and winning the jobs. Maybe we'd have a little more sense and working together instead of hat we ended up with.

Trying to do all you can so parts of the population find it very hard to get out and exercise their right vote cause of limited polling places, limited hours, limited early voting, etc is no way to run a country unless you don't want them to have a say in it at all. Hence why they'd rather not let people get one by mail so they can do so from home and send it back in. They know they'd lose the power they wrote in for themselves.
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Only 2 real ways to have fraud in mail in ballots. If one of your friends isn't going to vote and you convince that person to let you vote in their place or they accidentally mail you more than 1 ballot.
 
Shaggy said:
The man wasn't homeless without a reason and he has to be very unstable even before this attack


Only 2 real ways to have fraud in mail in ballots. If one of your friends isn't going to vote and you convince that person to let you vote in their place or they accidentally mail you more than 1 ballot.
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In 2019 there was this too “There is some precedent for fraud on this, including in 2019, when a North Carolina congressional election was thrown out after a political operative for the Republican in the race collected absentee ballots and illegally tampered with thembefore turning them in. Opponents of collecting ballots call it ballot harvesting.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...uments-against-voting-by-mail/?outputType=amp
 
snowlover91 said:
In 2019 there was this too “There is some precedent for fraud on this, including in 2019, when a North Carolina congressional election was thrown out after a political operative for the Republican in the race collected absentee ballots and illegally tampered with thembefore turning them in. Opponents of collecting ballots call it ballot harvesting.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...uments-against-voting-by-mail/?outputType=amp
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Yeah I should have clarified that individual fraud would mainly be from the 2 ways I described. 3rd party tampering could certainly be a problem.
 
I believe a photo ID should be required to select our representatives.
Hell, we need a photo ID for .....................

1. Alcohol
2. Cigarettes
3. Opening a bank account
4. Apply for food stamps
5. Apply for welfare
6. Apply for Medicaid/Social Security
7. Apply for unemployment or a job
8. Rent/buy a house, apply for a mortgage
9. Drive/buy/rent a car
10. Get on an airplane
11. Get married
12. Purchase a gun
13. Adopt a pet
14. Rent a hotel room
15. Apply for a hunting license
16. Apply for a fishing license
17. Buy a cell phone
18. Visit a casino
19. Pick up a prescription
20. Hold a rally or protest
21. Blood donations
22. Buy an "M" rated video game
23. Purchase nail polish at CVS
24. Purchase certain cold medicines
 
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