Here's What Happened When a Reporter Experimented with Mail-In Ballots

[floridafan]

I didn't say there were......I said these elections shouldn't be manipulated by fuckwits who thought they were.......such as yourself and every other demmycunt.......

Read your own post once again, idiot!

[floridafan]

agreed.....just give up your insane idea to mail out 350M of them unsolicited......

What makes you think that millions of ballots will be sent out unsolicited? 350 million? You are fucking nuts.
Each and every state has their own system

[Nordberg]

When Trump saw mail-in was coming, he immediately put a guy to head the post office and fuck it up quickly. He is ,as usual for Trump, charged with destroying it from the inside. Then Trump went on a string of tirades and tweets about mail-in being corrupt and unreliable. He is trying to make it that way, so when he loses, he can claim he was cheated.
We have had mail=in for a very long time. Some states have relied on it and have had no troubles. Trump is making up shit and rightys are gobbling his poo.Trump is trying to cheat his way into a win or an excuse to keep power in November. Trump is not very sophisticated. He just blows shit up.

[PostmodernProphet]

Read your own post once again, idiot!

okay.....done......you're still a fuckwit who should stop trying to manipulate elections......

[PostmodernProphet]

What makes you think that millions of ballots will be sent out unsolicited? 350 million? You are fucking nuts.
Each and every state has their own system

are you denying states haven't already sent them out unsolicited for the primaries?......

[Micawber]

eat shit, gnat

[floridafan]

are you denying states haven't already sent them out unsolicited for the primaries?......

350 million?
AND, what if some states do send them out unsolicited?

[PostmodernProphet]

AND, what if some states do send them out unsolicited?

its an invitation to fraud........

[Earl]

What makes you think that millions of ballots will be sent out unsolicited? 350 million? You are fucking nuts.
Each and every state has their own system

"Georgia Sent Out Nearly 7 Million Absentee Ballot Applications For Primary, But Proposed Bill Won’t Let It Happen Again
Emil Moffatt • Jun 24, 2020
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent out absentee ballot applications in March to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent out absentee ballot applications in March to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Credit Keith Srakocic / Associated Press
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Updated Wednesday at 2:50 p.m.

An amendment to Senate Bill 463 would prohibit the Georgia secretary of state or county elections officials from sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications. The amendment passed along a party-line vote, and the bill itself was approved by a majority of the committee.

It’s a direct rebuke to the action taken by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in March of this year when he sent out applications to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgians responded to the applications in an unprecedented way, as more than 1.1 million votes were cast by absentee ballots for the June 9 primary elections.

But the influx in absentee ballots led to issues in many counties as local officials had to process those requests. Some voters didn’t get their ballots, while others got their ballots but chose to vote in person anyway. That snarled lines as poll workers labored to cancel those ballots.

“This is not in any way prevent anyone from asking for an absentee ballot or voting absentee,” said Republican Rep. Shaw Blackmon, the chair of the Government Affairs Committee. “All this says is that we’re not going to flood – and that’s what we saw happen on June 9, and that was the reason we saw this submitted – we’re not going to flood this with added mailings or unsolicited absentee ballots so that we actually create some additional problems for our counties.”

But Democratic Rep. Renitta Shannon pointed out that Raffensperger has already said he wasn’t going to send out mass ballot applications again.

“This amendment is not needed, the secretary of state has already made a ruling on this, and all this does is seek to remove local control. That’s all it does,” said Shannon.

Moments after the amendment was adopted, voting rights group Fair Fight Action put out a statement on Twitter:

“Rural counties are currently seeing COVID surging and are bracing for a tough fall. If a county wants to help their community safely participate in elections, this proposed law would prohibit them to decide themselves if they want to send absentee ballot request forms to voters.”

Later, Raffensperger weighed in, although he did not directly comment on the potential usurpation of his power.

“What we are seeing today is the continued weaponization of election administration by both the left and the right. I call on both sides to stop trying to politicize election administration,” Raffensperger said in a written statement.

He again defended his decision to send out absentee applications in March.

“I chose to send a clear, uniform application utilizing barcode technology to assist counties in processing. We also procured a mail vendor to package and mail ballots, taking on what would have been a crushing blow and expense to counties,” said Raffensperger.

In the statement decrying the politicization of elections, he made no further mention of Republicans, but lambasted “liberals,” claiming that they want “elections with no voter ID, no citizenship check, and unlimited ballot harvesting.”

The bill now goes to the full house for a vote. The legislative session is slated to end on Friday.
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[floridafan]

its an invitation to fraud........

There is little or no fraud with mail in balloting. Each state has their own safeguards.
There have been over 250 million votes cast with mail in balloting with very few problems.
You are trying to crate what doesn't exist.

[floridafan]

"Georgia Sent Out Nearly 7 Million Absentee Ballot Applications For Primary, But Proposed Bill Won’t Let It Happen Again
Emil Moffatt • Jun 24, 2020
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent out absentee ballot applications in March to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent out absentee ballot applications in March to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Credit Keith Srakocic / Associated Press
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Updated Wednesday at 2:50 p.m.

An amendment to Senate Bill 463 would prohibit the Georgia secretary of state or county elections officials from sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications. The amendment passed along a party-line vote, and the bill itself was approved by a majority of the committee.

It’s a direct rebuke to the action taken by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in March of this year when he sent out applications to all 6.9 million active voters amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgians responded to the applications in an unprecedented way, as more than 1.1 million votes were cast by absentee ballots for the June 9 primary elections.

But the influx in absentee ballots led to issues in many counties as local officials had to process those requests. Some voters didn’t get their ballots, while others got their ballots but chose to vote in person anyway. That snarled lines as poll workers labored to cancel those ballots.

“This is not in any way prevent anyone from asking for an absentee ballot or voting absentee,” said Republican Rep. Shaw Blackmon, the chair of the Government Affairs Committee. “All this says is that we’re not going to flood – and that’s what we saw happen on June 9, and that was the reason we saw this submitted – we’re not going to flood this with added mailings or unsolicited absentee ballots so that we actually create some additional problems for our counties.”

But Democratic Rep. Renitta Shannon pointed out that Raffensperger has already said he wasn’t going to send out mass ballot applications again.

“This amendment is not needed, the secretary of state has already made a ruling on this, and all this does is seek to remove local control. That’s all it does,” said Shannon.

Moments after the amendment was adopted, voting rights group Fair Fight Action put out a statement on Twitter:

“Rural counties are currently seeing COVID surging and are bracing for a tough fall. If a county wants to help their community safely participate in elections, this proposed law would prohibit them to decide themselves if they want to send absentee ballot request forms to voters.”

Later, Raffensperger weighed in, although he did not directly comment on the potential usurpation of his power.

“What we are seeing today is the continued weaponization of election administration by both the left and the right. I call on both sides to stop trying to politicize election administration,” Raffensperger said in a written statement.

He again defended his decision to send out absentee applications in March.

“I chose to send a clear, uniform application utilizing barcode technology to assist counties in processing. We also procured a mail vendor to package and mail ballots, taking on what would have been a crushing blow and expense to counties,” said Raffensperger.

In the statement decrying the politicization of elections, he made no further mention of Republicans, but lambasted “liberals,” claiming that they want “elections with no voter ID, no citizenship check, and unlimited ballot harvesting.”

The bill now goes to the full house for a vote. The legislative session is slated to end on Friday.
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Sounds like Georgia is making a mountain out of a molehill. If my state wants to send everyone a ballot, that fine. Some will use them and others may prefer to vote in person. Its no big deal.

[PostmodernProphet]

There is little or no fraud with mail in balloting. Each state has their own safeguards.
There have been over 250 million votes cast with mail in balloting with very few problems.
You are trying to crate what doesn't exist.

stop being an idiot......no state ever before has done what the demmycunts are proposing/attempting for this election so all your claims about "it has never happened" are meaningless.......

[anonymoose]

what? He's POTUS not a mail clerk

Yeah, his job is to develop a vaccine.

[floridafan]

stop being an idiot......no state ever before has done what the demmycunts are proposing/attempting for this election so all your claims about "it has never happened" are meaningless.......

We have never been in the midst of a health emergency as we are now. You cannot expect people to risk catching the virus while standing in long lines for hours.
However, each state will do what they think is best for them. There is no "one size fits all".

[PostmodernProphet]

Some will use them and others may prefer to vote in person. Its no big deal.

and if someone takes one of those unsolicited ballots and fills it out as if they were the voter it was intended for, is that a big deal........put it this way.......if we go out and harvest those ballots and fill tens of thousands of them out for Trump and then dump them in the mail box........would it be a big deal then?......