This article is being disingenuous. Trump doesn't support mail-in ballots when it's automatically sent out to everyone, even if they didn't request it.
This is a vulnerable system that can easily be exploited for fraud.
Ballots should only be sent out, if you request it for each election.
It's astounding that so many people lose all common sense, if it means admitting someone you don't like is correct.
Its weird, I’ve heard him talk a lot about mail in ballots but never heard him make this precise distinction. You got any quotes which back up what you’re claiming?
Not who you were responding to, but here are a few. The problem is he calls them absentee voting / ballots not mail in ballots which makes it confusing when looking it up.
> Absentee voting is great. You request – I'm an absentee voter because I requested, I got, and then I sent in my vote. So that works out very well. That's what we've had. But now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots.
> Absentee Ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege. Not so with Mail-Ins.
> Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them. Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins.
So, if you have the time and energy to go through an arbitrarily painful process, you can always vote.
Texas just announced they are going to shut down more polling locations in the upcoming election. I wonder if it will happen to be in a Democrat concentrated region.
Unless the absentee process is guaranteed to be frictionless, it inviting more rat fuckery.
Is it actually exploited for fraud though? It doesn’t matter if they send me 10 ballots - I can still go to jail for voting more than once.
I think you’re giving too much credence to someone whose argument was disingenuous. It was never about the security of elections, it was about people using mail-in ballots to not vote for him.
We absolutely do know. Study after study has found actual voter fraud to be practically non existent. What does happen a tiny but measurable amount of time: John Smith signing on the line of the wrong John Smith.
Actual, intentional rampant fraud has not been documented.
I’m sorry, but how can you demonstrate that there is no fraud when the identity of people voting is not verified? You simply can not. At best you can say the ballots cast are all for registered voters, but not that they actually cast them.
Because it is trivial to identify the people who vote by mail. This complaint comes up over and over and over and over and over again by people that have spent zero seconds actually looking into how verification is done.
You compare the signature with what's on the voter record. You check records to see if they passed away recently. Then you can compare addresses and any other personal details. This is more than enough information to strongly verify that the person who voted was who they say.
It's why fraud is rare and why the cases of attempted mass voting fraud are immediately identified (see: Leslie McCrae Dowless)
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Nowhere in the Constitution or in any amendments does it say the executive branch may arbitrarily usurp states' rights by interfering with free and fair elections.
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This is a vulnerable system that can easily be exploited for fraud.
Ballots should only be sent out, if you request it for each election.
It's astounding that so many people lose all common sense, if it means admitting someone you don't like is correct.
> Absentee voting is great. You request – I'm an absentee voter because I requested, I got, and then I sent in my vote. So that works out very well. That's what we've had. But now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots.
> Absentee Ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege. Not so with Mail-Ins.
> Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them. Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins.
> Absentee good, universal mail-in very bad
Texas just announced they are going to shut down more polling locations in the upcoming election. I wonder if it will happen to be in a Democrat concentrated region.
Unless the absentee process is guaranteed to be frictionless, it inviting more rat fuckery.
I think you’re giving too much credence to someone whose argument was disingenuous. It was never about the security of elections, it was about people using mail-in ballots to not vote for him.
We may never know, every single time I see or hear this comment there is never any data/proof to back it up.
Remember: nothing was wrong with how we vote in 2016 and this suddenly became an issue in 2020.
Actual, intentional rampant fraud has not been documented.
You compare the signature with what's on the voter record. You check records to see if they passed away recently. Then you can compare addresses and any other personal details. This is more than enough information to strongly verify that the person who voted was who they say.
It's why fraud is rare and why the cases of attempted mass voting fraud are immediately identified (see: Leslie McCrae Dowless)
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Nowhere in the Constitution or in any amendments does it say the executive branch may arbitrarily usurp states' rights by interfering with free and fair elections.