If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

[Doc7505]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

Fauci: If we can safely shop at the grocery store, we can safely vote in person

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14 Aug 2020 ~~ By Ed Morrissey
t’s not the first time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has made this argument, but maybe it will be the first time it will break through the political/media noise over mail-in voting. The head of the NIAID said a week ago that healthy people who stick to mask and social-distancing protocols could safely cast their ballots at their local precincts, although that remark got understandably overshadowed by his cautious endorsement of reopening schools.
This time, ABC’s Deborah Roberts asked specifically about voting as part of a NatGeo panel she moderated yesterday. Fauci insists that the issue of in-person voting is no more fraught than grocery shopping for healthy voters, although high-risk voters might want to use mailed ballots “the way we have done so for years” (via Katie Pavlich):

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“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview.​

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”​

This confirms what Fauci said previously, and what I have argued for weeks. A handful of states have mature vote-by-mail systems that should be able to handle the presidential election demand this year, but those voters are used to those systems as well. The rest of the states — including all of the presumed battleground states, and most of the high-population states too — do not. Two of them, California and New York, held primaries with mass mail-in voting and ended up with high failure rates. New York took weeks just to unwind its primaries, and the Big Apple’s ballot failure rate exceeded twenty percent.
Forget the fraud argument, which is marginal at worst and mostly a distraction. Why would we deliberately choose a system that risks disenfranchising one out of every five American voters when it’s not necessary to do so? Even if we’re disenfranchising one out of every twenty American voters, that’s a failure rate of 5%, and that would exceed the margins of victory in enough battleground states to undermine the outcome’s credibility. And that outcome might not be known for weeks after the election, as we saw in New York in its primary.
The answer to this is to commit resources to ensure proper safety at in-person voting precincts, and perhaps even open new ones to distribute the demand more fully, rather than sink money into mass mail-in balloting. If we can figure out how to shop safely at the grocery store, we can surely cast ballots in person, where the voting can be done reliably and counted quickly, and where voters at least have the opportunity to correct any mistakes and make sure their votes count.


Comment:
What we are seeing from the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left is just one more political stunt to screw up the presidential election of 2020... Not only have the instigated, funded and sent out their terrorist thugs, politicized the Chinese Wuhan Covid Virus, failed in their impeachment and failed coup d'etat.
Gaming the election is the entire point of the Chinese Virus shutdown in the first place.
The blow back will hurt the PMS/DSA Democrat Left in November. There's no doubt that any sane person in this nation can see what they've done to this country because the lost the 2016 elect and they'll lose the coming one too.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Mail in ballots (highly demanded by the left), allow a great deal of opportunity for fraud.
You don't need a degree in Rocket Science to figure out the implications.

We also must remember that the Left considers a non leftist candidate as illegitimate.
Therefore, there is nothing they could do that they would consider inappropriate in order to prevent "illegitimate" Right wing candidates success.

 

[Abbey]

I'm wondering why, in November, we're still being required to wear masks.

 

[skye]

Say NO to mail -in voting.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Dont need Fakey to tell us this....and its not going to convince the shiver in placers

 

[toobfreak]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

If we CAN'T safely shop at the grocery store, then what have I been doing there these past 6 months not getting sick?

And if I can spend six months in a crowded, panicked mob fighting over TP not getting sick, how bad can it be to go to the poll ONCE, wait patiently in line and take my turn?

 

[bluzman61]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

Fauci: If we can safely shop at the grocery store, we can safely vote in person

hotair.com

14 Aug 2020 ~~ By Ed Morrissey
t’s not the first time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has made this argument, but maybe it will be the first time it will break through the political/media noise over mail-in voting. The head of the NIAID said a week ago that healthy people who stick to mask and social-distancing protocols could safely cast their ballots at their local precincts, although that remark got understandably overshadowed by his cautious endorsement of reopening schools.
This time, ABC’s Deborah Roberts asked specifically about voting as part of a NatGeo panel she moderated yesterday. Fauci insists that the issue of in-person voting is no more fraught than grocery shopping for healthy voters, although high-risk voters might want to use mailed ballots “the way we have done so for years” (via Katie Pavlich):

​

“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview.​

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”​

This confirms what Fauci said previously, and what I have argued for weeks. A handful of states have mature vote-by-mail systems that should be able to handle the presidential election demand this year, but those voters are used to those systems as well. The rest of the states — including all of the presumed battleground states, and most of the high-population states too — do not. Two of them, California and New York, held primaries with mass mail-in voting and ended up with high failure rates. New York took weeks just to unwind its primaries, and the Big Apple’s ballot failure rate exceeded twenty percent.
Forget the fraud argument, which is marginal at worst and mostly a distraction. Why would we deliberately choose a system that risks disenfranchising one out of every five American voters when it’s not necessary to do so? Even if we’re disenfranchising one out of every twenty American voters, that’s a failure rate of 5%, and that would exceed the margins of victory in enough battleground states to undermine the outcome’s credibility. And that outcome might not be known for weeks after the election, as we saw in New York in its primary.
The answer to this is to commit resources to ensure proper safety at in-person voting precincts, and perhaps even open new ones to distribute the demand more fully, rather than sink money into mass mail-in balloting. If we can figure out how to shop safely at the grocery store, we can surely cast ballots in person, where the voting can be done reliably and counted quickly, and where voters at least have the opportunity to correct any mistakes and make sure their votes count.


Comment:
What we are seeing from the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left is just one more political stunt to screw up the presidential election of 2020... Not only have the instigated, funded and sent out their terrorist thugs, politicized the Chinese Wuhan Covid Virus, failed in their impeachment and failed coup d'etat.
Gaming the election is the entire point of the Chinese Virus shutdown in the first place.
The blow back will hurt the PMS/DSA Democrat Left in November. There's no doubt that any sane person in this nation can see what they've done to this country because the lost the 2016 elect and they'll lose the coming one too.

Nice post, thanks.

 

[bluzman61]

Mail in ballots (highly demanded by the left), allow a great deal of opportunity for fraud.
You don't need a degree in Rocket Science to figure out the implications.

We also must remember that the Left considers a non leftist candidate as illegitimate.
Therefore, there is nothing they could do that they would consider inappropriate in order to prevent "illegitimate" Right wing candidates success.

Exactly.

 

[bluzman61]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

If we CAN'T safely shop at the grocery store, then what have I been doing there these past 6 months not getting sick?

And if I can spend six months in a crowded, panicked mob fighting over TP not getting sick, how bad can it be to go to the poll ONCE, wait patiently in line and take my turn?

Yep.

 

[Redcurtain]

How can you protest post office in large crowds but can’t vote in person?

 

[candycorn]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

Fauci: If we can safely shop at the grocery store, we can safely vote in person

hotair.com

14 Aug 2020 ~~ By Ed Morrissey
t’s not the first time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has made this argument, but maybe it will be the first time it will break through the political/media noise over mail-in voting. The head of the NIAID said a week ago that healthy people who stick to mask and social-distancing protocols could safely cast their ballots at their local precincts, although that remark got understandably overshadowed by his cautious endorsement of reopening schools.
This time, ABC’s Deborah Roberts asked specifically about voting as part of a NatGeo panel she moderated yesterday. Fauci insists that the issue of in-person voting is no more fraught than grocery shopping for healthy voters, although high-risk voters might want to use mailed ballots “the way we have done so for years” (via Katie Pavlich):

​

“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview.​

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”​

This confirms what Fauci said previously, and what I have argued for weeks. A handful of states have mature vote-by-mail systems that should be able to handle the presidential election demand this year, but those voters are used to those systems as well. The rest of the states — including all of the presumed battleground states, and most of the high-population states too — do not. Two of them, California and New York, held primaries with mass mail-in voting and ended up with high failure rates. New York took weeks just to unwind its primaries, and the Big Apple’s ballot failure rate exceeded twenty percent.
Forget the fraud argument, which is marginal at worst and mostly a distraction. Why would we deliberately choose a system that risks disenfranchising one out of every five American voters when it’s not necessary to do so? Even if we’re disenfranchising one out of every twenty American voters, that’s a failure rate of 5%, and that would exceed the margins of victory in enough battleground states to undermine the outcome’s credibility. And that outcome might not be known for weeks after the election, as we saw in New York in its primary.
The answer to this is to commit resources to ensure proper safety at in-person voting precincts, and perhaps even open new ones to distribute the demand more fully, rather than sink money into mass mail-in balloting. If we can figure out how to shop safely at the grocery store, we can surely cast ballots in person, where the voting can be done reliably and counted quickly, and where voters at least have the opportunity to correct any mistakes and make sure their votes count.


Comment:
What we are seeing from the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left is just one more political stunt to screw up the presidential election of 2020... Not only have the instigated, funded and sent out their terrorist thugs, politicized the Chinese Wuhan Covid Virus, failed in their impeachment and failed coup d'etat.
Gaming the election is the entire point of the Chinese Virus shutdown in the first place.
The blow back will hurt the PMS/DSA Democrat Left in November. There's no doubt that any sane person in this nation can see what they've done to this country because the lost the 2016 elect and they'll lose the coming one too.

So with that logic, if we can order goods from the grocery store by mail; we can vote by mail?

States have been voting by mail for years and the military has been voting by mail for nearly a century.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Nah. I'll be mailing it, like I've been doing for 30 years.

 

[Redcurtain]

Nah. I'll be mailing it, like I've been doing for 30 years.

I show up to vote like a man

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Nah. I'll be mailing it, like I've been doing for 30 years.

I show up to vote like a man

Good for you.

 

[busybee01]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

Fauci: If we can safely shop at the grocery store, we can safely vote in person

hotair.com

14 Aug 2020 ~~ By Ed Morrissey
t’s not the first time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has made this argument, but maybe it will be the first time it will break through the political/media noise over mail-in voting. The head of the NIAID said a week ago that healthy people who stick to mask and social-distancing protocols could safely cast their ballots at their local precincts, although that remark got understandably overshadowed by his cautious endorsement of reopening schools.
This time, ABC’s Deborah Roberts asked specifically about voting as part of a NatGeo panel she moderated yesterday. Fauci insists that the issue of in-person voting is no more fraught than grocery shopping for healthy voters, although high-risk voters might want to use mailed ballots “the way we have done so for years” (via Katie Pavlich):

​

“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview.​

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”​

This confirms what Fauci said previously, and what I have argued for weeks. A handful of states have mature vote-by-mail systems that should be able to handle the presidential election demand this year, but those voters are used to those systems as well. The rest of the states — including all of the presumed battleground states, and most of the high-population states too — do not. Two of them, California and New York, held primaries with mass mail-in voting and ended up with high failure rates. New York took weeks just to unwind its primaries, and the Big Apple’s ballot failure rate exceeded twenty percent.
Forget the fraud argument, which is marginal at worst and mostly a distraction. Why would we deliberately choose a system that risks disenfranchising one out of every five American voters when it’s not necessary to do so? Even if we’re disenfranchising one out of every twenty American voters, that’s a failure rate of 5%, and that would exceed the margins of victory in enough battleground states to undermine the outcome’s credibility. And that outcome might not be known for weeks after the election, as we saw in New York in its primary.
The answer to this is to commit resources to ensure proper safety at in-person voting precincts, and perhaps even open new ones to distribute the demand more fully, rather than sink money into mass mail-in balloting. If we can figure out how to shop safely at the grocery store, we can surely cast ballots in person, where the voting can be done reliably and counted quickly, and where voters at least have the opportunity to correct any mistakes and make sure their votes count.


Comment:
What we are seeing from the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left is just one more political stunt to screw up the presidential election of 2020... Not only have the instigated, funded and sent out their terrorist thugs, politicized the Chinese Wuhan Covid Virus, failed in their impeachment and failed coup d'etat.
Gaming the election is the entire point of the Chinese Virus shutdown in the first place.
The blow back will hurt the PMS/DSA Democrat Left in November. There's no doubt that any sane person in this nation can see what they've done to this country because the lost the 2016 elect and they'll lose the coming one too.

What we are seeing is the fascist right wing Republican Party attempt to steal the election. The coronavirus is not under control and Trump has done a miserable job. Pretending it is not there does not work. Ronald Reagan used to love to listen to opposing views but Trump wants yes men who agree with him.Any sane person can see what is going on and that is why they disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus.

Fauci's analysis is way off. At this point in time, grocery stores have not had to close. Polling places have usually been manned by individuals who are at the greatest risk of dying from the coronavirus. As a result, there are a fraction of the normal polling places open. That means you are going to have more people jammed into a polling place. That makes it harder to maintain distances.

There should be 3 options. People should be allowed to vote early 30 days before the election. Also mail-in balloting should be done. The people that want to do this in person should be able to do this safely even with fewer polling places.

 

[Redcurtain]

Fauci: If We Can Safely Shop At The Grocery Store, We Can Safely Vote In Person

Fauci: If we can safely shop at the grocery store, we can safely vote in person

hotair.com

14 Aug 2020 ~~ By Ed Morrissey
t’s not the first time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has made this argument, but maybe it will be the first time it will break through the political/media noise over mail-in voting. The head of the NIAID said a week ago that healthy people who stick to mask and social-distancing protocols could safely cast their ballots at their local precincts, although that remark got understandably overshadowed by his cautious endorsement of reopening schools.
This time, ABC’s Deborah Roberts asked specifically about voting as part of a NatGeo panel she moderated yesterday. Fauci insists that the issue of in-person voting is no more fraught than grocery shopping for healthy voters, although high-risk voters might want to use mailed ballots “the way we have done so for years” (via Katie Pavlich):

​

“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview.​

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”​

This confirms what Fauci said previously, and what I have argued for weeks. A handful of states have mature vote-by-mail systems that should be able to handle the presidential election demand this year, but those voters are used to those systems as well. The rest of the states — including all of the presumed battleground states, and most of the high-population states too — do not. Two of them, California and New York, held primaries with mass mail-in voting and ended up with high failure rates. New York took weeks just to unwind its primaries, and the Big Apple’s ballot failure rate exceeded twenty percent.
Forget the fraud argument, which is marginal at worst and mostly a distraction. Why would we deliberately choose a system that risks disenfranchising one out of every five American voters when it’s not necessary to do so? Even if we’re disenfranchising one out of every twenty American voters, that’s a failure rate of 5%, and that would exceed the margins of victory in enough battleground states to undermine the outcome’s credibility. And that outcome might not be known for weeks after the election, as we saw in New York in its primary.
The answer to this is to commit resources to ensure proper safety at in-person voting precincts, and perhaps even open new ones to distribute the demand more fully, rather than sink money into mass mail-in balloting. If we can figure out how to shop safely at the grocery store, we can surely cast ballots in person, where the voting can be done reliably and counted quickly, and where voters at least have the opportunity to correct any mistakes and make sure their votes count.


Comment:
What we are seeing from the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left is just one more political stunt to screw up the presidential election of 2020... Not only have the instigated, funded and sent out their terrorist thugs, politicized the Chinese Wuhan Covid Virus, failed in their impeachment and failed coup d'etat.
Gaming the election is the entire point of the Chinese Virus shutdown in the first place.
The blow back will hurt the PMS/DSA Democrat Left in November. There's no doubt that any sane person in this nation can see what they've done to this country because the lost the 2016 elect and they'll lose the coming one too.

What we are seeing is the fascist right wing Republican Party attempt to steal the election. The coronavirus is not under control and Trump has done a miserable job. Pretending it is not there does not work. Ronald Reagan used to love to listen to opposing views but Trump wants yes men who agree with him.Any sane person can see what is going on and that is why they disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus.

Fauci's analysis is way off. At this point in time, grocery stores have not had to close. Polling places have usually been manned by individuals who are at the greatest risk of dying from the coronavirus. As a result, there are a fraction of the normal polling places open. That means you are going to have more people jammed into a polling place. That makes it harder to maintain distances.

There should be 3 options. People should be allowed to vote early 30 days before the election. Also mail-in balloting should be done. The people that want to do this in person should be able to do this safely even with fewer polling places.

If you vote by fraud trump be forced to call martial law. Vote in person your going to lose either way.

 

[Claudette]

Nah. I'll be mailing it, like I've been doing for 30 years.

I show up to vote like a man

I show up to vote like a woman. I always vote early and in person. I wouldn't trust the mail with my vote. Do it in person. Doesn't take long if you vote early.

 

[Doc7505]

The PMS/DSA Democrat Leftists want to fill the election with fraudulent votes. That is their only hope to win in 2020... If you think that's not true remember what they did with ACORN and SEIU.... The Franken win and the the of Washington State governor win

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The canvassing board for King County convened today to add hundreds of mistakenly rejected ballots to the hand recount of Washington's incredibly tight governor's race...

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