Oddball
Unobtanium Member
They're playing stupid on purpose.I posted a link to the differences with absentee ballots per state.No Hutch StarskeyHe voted absentee, not "by mail"....Thare's a vast difference and you're playing stupid on purpose to pretend as though there isn't.Voting by mail is an open invitation to fraud....Cheating favors your team.No, by being an idiot.By making a mistake. The point is the votes are being cast by registered voters. Why don't Repubs want to count them? Because they think it's to their advantage to throw them out.How do you vote in the wrong precinct by mistake?
If you can't find the assigned precinct polling place, which is in your own neighborhood, you're too stupid to vote.
Voting by mail would make that moot.
Is that why Trump voted by mail?There is no practical difference whatsoever. Both ballots are processed in the same way.He voted absentee, not "by mail"....Thare's a vast difference and you're playing stupid on purpose to pretend as though there isn't.
The difference is verifying ID under penalty of perjury BEFORE submitting votes by mailin ballots.
This makes all the difference when verifying signatures and counting votes.
Without verifying if the ballots were filled by the actual person named, the same ballots can be recounted over and over and defeat the whole purpose of challenging the count!
You just pointed out what is wrong with this system. All you are doing is counting the ballots as the same whether they are notarized and proven to be cast by the individual named, or filled out by other people.
As others pointed out, this is why all other countries don't use mail-in ballots, but require voting in person. Even inking each person's finger to ensure they only vote once!Ok....How is that different from an absentee ballot? They do not require notarization either. The absentee ballots are requested by the voter just as the mail in ballots are. There is no practical difference in how they are processed.The difference is verifying ID under penalty of perjury BEFORE submitting votes by mailin ballots.
This makes all the difference when verifying signatures and counting votes.
Without verifying if the ballots were filled by the actual person named, the same ballots can be recounted over and over and defeat the whole purpose of challenging the count!
Many states require notarizations and witnesses that the person
signed and submitted the ballot.
Again, the big difference with THIS election was there were suddenly
a surge of MILLIONS more voters per state submitting ballots by mail
and/or absentee.
So with that huge change, we should have agreed on more secure standards
so we would avoid the disputes that occurred by NOT implementing
Notarization requirements and witnesses.
Even states that did not have these before, could have been required
to implement those requirements due to the MASSIVE increase
in voters using these methods IN THE MILLIONS which otherwise
could not be verified in such mass volumes!
This election was different due to COVID.
So better standards should have been agreed on in order
to avoid disputes over mailin ballots IN THE MILLIONS that would far exceed
the narrow margins and would require greater security to
make sure close races are measured accurately.
They'll lie, whether by commission or omission, to get universal ballots available at your local c-store.