Not2BSubjugated
Callous Individualist
It looks like Donald Trump realized that he his tweets might discourage his supporters from voting by mail (thus narrowing their voting options).
So he tweeted that everyone should request a mail ballot or absentee ballot in Florida (the most important swing state).
Trump was thus forced to admit mail voting is safe, with his new and bizarre "Fine, mail voting is safe but only in Florida, ok?" argument:
So, personally, I believe that ANY form of remote voting en masse or electronic voting create unacceptable risk of electoral tampering. Absentee ballots have to be specifically requested and justified, and that's a concession I'm not strongly against, but making it the default, even for a single election, is, IMO, in-fucking-sane.
That said, Trump's not wrong to imply that voting by mail is safer in Florida than elsewhere. As he said, voters in Florida that wish to vote by mail have to actively apply for mail-in ballots, just as they would for absentee ballots in any other year, whereas a handful of other states are automatically sending out ballots to all registered voters. A housecat that's been dead for 12 years isn't going to be receiving a ballot in Florida unless someone actively applies on its behalf, which already makes Florida at least marginally more secure than Georgia.
Conservatives are so confused. Now this guy says that if a person actively requests a mail ballot, then that's all it takes too make it safe.
Sorry, but you guys have been saying that mail ballots is unsafe because of " harvesting" and "forged signatures" etc. That has nothing to do with actively or passively getting the ballots.
Stop making up new arguments on the fly because you want to agree with Trump on everything.
That straw man is pretty, but it doesn't look like me.
I'm not saying that requesting a mail in ballot is all it takes to make it safe. I'm saying that making people request these ballots makes that system precisely ONE STEP SAFER than a system that sends them out unbidden. That's ALL I'm saying.
If you'd take the time to actually read the beginning of the post to which you responded, and actually engage with it, you'd see where I explicitly pointed out that I don't think ANY form of remote voting is safe.