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Originally Posted by Corbic
Because clearly, Russian agents will get copies of Ballots and mail in thousands of them to sway the election. Not exactly rocket science.
You are also again comparing absentee voting to blanket mail in voting. It's not the same thing.
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It's not clear, though- and it's certainly clear that the Russians prefer Trump by a large margin. Wouldn't it be preferable that your guy gets the benefit of the fake votes?
Please link me to a reputable news source that says mail-in ballots are able to be compromised in the numbers you quote. I am trying to learn why I have never heard of this failure before, and why it's never been a problem before. In the past 20 years, there have been only 1,285 proven cases of voter fraud and more than 250 million votes cast by mail.
I concede that states are well on their way to fucking things up, and you saw the line in The Atlantic about the rickety USPS, right? So if Trump was interested, and I mean truly interested, about the possibility of vote manipulation and/or votes being miscounted/lost/late, wouldn't he be bolstering the USPS rather than contributing to its woes?
The approval process for South Carolina's strict absentee voting requires:
"1. Members of the Armed Forces or Merchant Marine serving outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents residing with them
2. Persons serving with the American Red Cross or with the United Service Organizations (USO) who are attached to and serving with the Armed Forces outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents residing with them
3. Overseas Citizens
4. Persons who are physically disabled
5. Students attending school outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents residing with them
5. Persons who for reasons of employment will not be able to vote on election day
6. Government employees serving outside their county of residence on Election Day and their spouses and dependents residing with them
7. Persons who plan to be on vacation outside their county of residence on Election Day
8. Persons serving as a juror in state or federal court on Election Day
9. Persons admitted to the hospital as emergency patients on Election Day or within a four-day period before the election
10. Persons with a death or funeral in the family within three days before the election
11. Persons confined to a jail or pre-trial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial
12. Persons attending sick or physically disabled persons
13. Certified poll watchers, poll managers, and county election officials working on Election Day
14. Persons sixty-five years of age or older
15. Persons who for religious reasons do not want to vote on a Saturday (Presidential Primaries Only)"
So, it's fine for people to get an absentee ballot because they're working, old, or on vacation, but the moment they want to avoid a congregation point for an infectious disease, watch out! That's not terribly well-thought-out, is it?
However, 29 states have no-excuse absentee ballots which do not require approval (and in certain states, like PA, these absentee ballots are referred to as "mail-in" ballots). How are their no-excuse absentee ballots less secure than mail-in ballots, especially if the similarity is such that certain states use the terms interchangeably?
Five states (WA, OR, CO, UT, HI) have all-mail voting in place. Every vote is mail-in.
You continue to ignore scientific fact or do any research for yourself.
PS- Proof of white power retweet:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/polit...wer/index.html, saved retweet:
https://factba.se/topic/deleted-tweets scroll down to Jun 28, '20.