Mail-in Voting

Let me know when the child rapist is gone. You know the one who was always talking up banging his own daughter.

What is clear is that the real goal of this conspiracy theory is to launch a preemptive attempt to find another excuse for a Democrat defeat. Last time it was PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN and this time it’ll be POSTAGE POSTAGE POSTAGE.

Apparently, his plan is to somehow make it so the post office will be unable to deliver vote by mail ballots in order to prevent Democrats from winning the election that their senile old weirdo nominee is in the process of blowing. It might be interesting to examine the details of this conspiracy theory if there was even a coherent conspiracy theory to examine, but there’s not. It’s mostly “Trump bad!," then low and undecipherable mumbling, then “And that’s how he will steal the election!”

The specifics of the alleged plot, to the extent you can identify them, are puzzling and elusive. What exactly is Trump going to do again? Is he going to order the mailmen to toss ballots in the shredder? Seems like it would be hard to pull off that flex with all those crack journalists out there. We are also told that he is rounding-up blue mailboxes from America’s street corners, and that this has been going on for a couple of decades is only further proof of his evil plan, somehow. What is not clear is how this might work in practice – so, the idea is that the Democrat voter comes home, ballot in hand, weeping because there are no blue mailboxes anymore to place his ballot into, and then he walks back inside his house past … his own mailbox? And then he just gives up? He sits at his dinner table, head in hands, sobbing at his inability to figure out how to drop a piece of correspondence into the postal system?


Now, that would be fine with me. I have no problem with you not voting if you are too stupid to mail a letter. Democracy then dies in dumbness.

Now, there is another alternative for those who can’t figure out how the mail works. You could, instead of walking those lonely streets in search of a rare blue receptacle, walk over to your local polling place on Election Day and vote like a normal person. That is a thing, you know. Ah, but the Can’t-Call-It-Chinese Chinese Coronavirus will kill us all if we go into a polling booth! Wait, I was told masks make you safe. Never mind. Hey, what if you are voting for someone woke, since wokeness seems to confer immunity to the flu? Regardless, feel free to go be around hundreds of other shouting people protesting that they have to go be around a few dozen other people who aren’t shouting down at their local precinct.

Of course, the whole idea behind vote by mail – the untargeted mass mailing of ballots out into the world that can be harvested by political operatives who all the best and smartest people tell us would never, ever cheat – is to make cheating easier. It’s to steal the election, and that’s why they are accusing Trump of cheating by trying to stop them from cheating. It’s an exercise in remarkable cynicism, but hey, they are, after all, our moral betters. We know because they never cease to tell us.


Also, underlying this bizarre and stupid conspiracy theory is more Democrat rent seeking for a beloved constituency. The postal workers’ union is a loyal Democrat adjunct and has naturally endorsed Grandpa Badfinger. Yeah, we’re supposed to trust the election to a bunch of partisan players for some reason – and the USPS is collapsing. It needs yet another bailout. Technology has changed how you correspond. You do it by email now. When was the last time you wrote a letter? You get paid electronically. Who gets a mailed Social Security check in 2020? The postal system, however, remains in many critical ways, essentially unchanged from a century ago. And that’s the way its participants and its Democrat patrons want it.

By now you have probably heard that the Postal Service is “sabotaging” mail-in voting. In fact, you have probably heard little else. Democrats, activists, and reporters have charged the administration with tampering with the mail to disenfranchise millions of voters. What’s more, they claimed, they have the goods to prove it. But even by the largely baseless standards of political debate in 2020, this assertion is ridiculous.

The supposedly ironclad proof is not a secret plan for mail voting obstruction or a confession caught on a hot mic. It is a series of public letters that the Postal Service sent to states to warn them that some have deadlines for “requesting and casting mail ballots that are incongruous with the Postal Service delivery standards.”

Strangely, despite the blow-up over the weekend, the Post Office had issued a similar notice in the spring. For weeks, the Postal Service has been advising voters to request absentee ballots at least two weeks before Election Day, to make sure voters’ ballots have ample time to move through the system. Mail delivery isn’t done by teleportation, after all.

\But that sensible precaution isn’t reflected in many state laws. In Pennsylvania, for instance, voters can request an absentee ballot just one week before an election. In Michigan, the cutoff is a mere four days. As the letters point out, tight deadlines like these set everyone, voters and officials alike, up to fail.

Election offices inundated with record numbers of last minute requests can be overloaded, leading to slowdowns and delays with no margin for error. New York, which also has a one-week ballot request deadline, mailed more than 34,000 ballots one day before the June primary. Whose fault is that? Certainly not the Postal Service.

The reality is, these deadlines are logistically unrealistic, and always have been. In even the best of times, four days is likely not enough time to process a request, prepare a ballot, mail it to a voter, and then expect it to be mailed back. That problem must be addressed. Instead of stoking fear and outrage over imagined conspiracies, our leaders and media could be investigating genuine solutions. They don’t have to look far.

The easiest and most responsible option is to push up the deadline for requesting an absentee ballot so that it has ample time to be processed and complete a round trip through the mail. In recent trial testimony, the head of the New York Board of Elections indicated the board had “repeatedly” recommended that New York push its deadline to 14 days, the same timeline recommended by the Postal Service.

Barring that, states should be open and honest with the American people. If they are going to request an absentee ballot, they need to do it early; and if they haven’t mailed it back by October 27, they have other options: drop it off at an official ballot collection location, vote early, or in person on Election Day.

The Postal Service is an ossified giant with a litany of issues that ought to be tackled by serious institutional reform. But a nefarious plot to intentionally sabotage mail ballots is not one of its problems. Fact checkers at USA Today concluded that claims of deliberate or politically motivated sabotage were false; any reasonable person looking at the evidence would concur.

As usual, the debate over mail-in voting is about generating heat, rather than light. We ought to be focused on Anthony Fauci’s declaration last week that there is “no reason” Americans would not be able to vote in person if they wear masks and practice social distancing. Yet some liberal leaders told us the opposite, and that only a universal mail voting election can solve the problem.

Save the P.O. Dump Trump.

I don't recall mentioning any names. Maybe your confusing someone else's children with your own.

Ungern said:

I can't accept such a situation .
The postal vote is a right .
The President must do anything to maintain the post system in use .
The President has stated the 13 augustus that he do want he can to prevent the postal vote.
The man that he has appointed to the post not only is a friend of Trump but he has also interest in the collapse of the post because he has shares and stock option into concurrent private sociéties ,and he do his best to collapse the USPS

You are sur that you agree that system ?

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The postal vote for president would be a nightmare. It's not a right, and cheating would be like nothing seen before. For the last 4 years democrats have done NOTHING but bite at Trumps ankles and this mail vote scan is the culmination of their failed attempts to remove him.

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Let me know when the child rapist is gone. You know the one who was always talking up banging his own daughter.

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Too bad you have no proof of that nor will you ever. However we DO have video and image proof that Biden loves to fondle underage girls. BLM = biden loves minors.

Donpenis has been bragging for years and years about how he'd love to jump the bones of his own daughter Ivanka.

The democrats want mail in voting so their dead can revote and all illegal immigrants, there is no way to verify millions of mail in votes and they know it and thats why they are pushing it.

Whether you are a democrat or not, how could you possibly be for anyone that runs over our border being allowed to vote in our elections for our LEADERS.
Seriously wth are we doing to ourselves

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is voicing concerns that new House legislation addressing changes at the agency would ultimately harm its efforts to improve efficiency and reduce costs in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.

"We are concerned that some of the requirements of the Bill, while well meaning, will constrain the ability of the Postal Service to make operational changes that will improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ultimately improve service to the American people," USPS said in a statement released Sunday evening.

"We reiterate that the Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation’s election mail securely and on time, and will do everything necessary to meet this sacred duty," USPS added, referring to mounting concerns about the agency's ability to process what is likely to be a significant rise in mail-in ballots in this year's elections.

The Democratic-led House on Saturday passed a bill designed to stop USPS from carrying out operational changes that could reduce the speed of delivery of mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The legislation passed largely along party line.

An Iowa judge's ruling invalidating 50,000 requests for absentee ballots because an election official pre-filled voters' personal information has handed President Trump’s campaign an early win in its fight against expanded mail-in balloting. Judge Ian Thornhill this week ruled Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, a Democrat, overstepped his bounds by pre-entering personal information in the ballots mailed out to county voters. Miller has been ordered to void the original ballot requests and inform voters in writing they must process new absentee ballots or show up to the polls to vote in person.

Fake Democratic ballots are far more likely to come in by mail, mysteriously mailed in by persons to whom they may or may not have been addressed–millions of those people being dead, moved away, or ineligible to vote. The “vote by junk mail” regime established in a number of states by the Democrats opens the door to voter fraud to an unprecedented degree.

A prominent Democratic Party news outlet acknowledges it is likely that President Trump will “seem” to have won a landslide victory on Election Day, so that “weeks” of post-election fraud by the Democrats will be needed to throw the election into chaos. prominent Democratic Party news outlet acknowledges it is likely that President Trump will “seem” to have won a landslide victory on Election Day, so that “weeks” of post-election fraud by the Democrats will be needed to throw the election into chaos.

Fifteen years ago this very month, a bipartisan panel of American statesmen and stateswomen — from ex-President Jimmy Carter and ex-Senate leader Tom Daschle on the left to former Secretary of State James Baker and former House Minority Leader Bob Michel on the right — studied the future of U.S. elections and issued strong words of caution that the expansion of mail-in voting that began a few years earlier in Oregon posed real fraud risks, especially in close elections.

"To improve ballot integrity, we propose that federal, state, and local prosecutors issue public reports on their investigations of election fraud, and we recommend federal legislation to deter or prosecute systemic efforts to deceive or intimidate voters," the Commission on Federal Election Reform urged in 2005. "States should not discourage legal voter registration or get-out-the-vote activities, but they need to do more to prevent voter registration and absentee ballot fraud."

Moreover, the commission strongly urged that voter identification was a key to preventing cheating, something some liberals today claim provides xenophobic "new barriers to the ballot box."

"The electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguards exist to deter or detect fraud or to confirm the identity of voters. Photo IDs currently are needed to board a plane, enter federal buildings, and cash a check. Voting is equally important," the commission said.

The commission, created by American University and supported by several liberal nonprofits, looked at ways of increasing voter participation and reducing fraud and saved some of its strongest words of concern for mail-in balloting, which was just beginning en masse in Oregon.

"While vote by mail appears to increase turnout for local elections, there is no evidence that it significantly expands participation in federal elections,” the commission wrote. "Moreover, it raises concerns about privacy, as citizens voting at home may come under pressure to vote for certain candidates, and it increases the risk of fraud."

"Oregon appears to have avoided significant fraud in its vote-by-mail elections by introducing safeguards to protect ballot integrity, including signature verification. Vote by mail is, however, likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections in other states, where the population is more mobile, where there is some history of troubled elections, or where the safeguards for ballot integrity are weaker," the commission said.

The commission acknowledged its members were split on the extent of voter fraud: Some believed it to be widespread, while others perceived it as minor. But the members' final report detailed concrete examples of voter fraud cases.

"The November 2004 elections also showed that irregularities and fraud still occur," it wrote. "In Washington, for example, where Christine Gregoire was elected governor by a 129-vote margin, the elections superintendent of King County testified during a subsequent unsuccessful election challenge that ineligible ex-felons had voted and that votes had been cast in the names of the dead. However, the judge accepted Gregoire's victory because with the exception of four ex-felons who admitted to voting for Dino Rossi, the authorities could not determine for whom the other illegal votes were cast.

"In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, investigators said they found clear evidence of fraud, including more than 200 cases of felons voting illegally and more than 100 people who voted twice, used fake names or false addresses, or voted in the name of a dead person," it added. "Moreover, there were 4,500 more votes cast than voters listed."

Today, in the era of Trump and in the midst of a pandemic, the bipartisan agreement from that commission is long since gone. Democrats are pressing hard to deploy widespread mail-in voting and reject picture ID and other validation efforts.

Trump and his Republican allies, like Attorney General William Barr, are more aligned with the sentiments of the 2005 commission's warnings.

Mail-in ballots are "open to fraud and coercion," the attorney general told CNN this week, citing a recent prosecution in which a single Texas suspect submitted 1,700 fraudulent ballots.

Barr's comments are backed by court cases, showing several hundred prosecutions of voter fraud involving mail-in ballots over the last two decades. Just the News recently identified several dozen voter fraud cases brought just in the last couple of years. And a New Jersey community even has been forced this year to redo an election because of widespread fraud.

Left-leaning reporters mock these concerns with headlines like this from CNN's Chris Cillizza: "Bill Barr's indefensible defense of 2020 voter fraud." Or take this headline from The Washington Post: "Barr carries Trump's election fraud water with a smile."

The media and its Democrats allies have shifted the debate, arguing that absent widespread, systemic voter fraud there should be no worries or action taken and that voter ID requirements are too restrictive.

The commission in 2005, and its many esteemed Democrats, took a different viewpoint, noting voter fraud did not need to be widespread to have serious consequences.

"The problem, however, is not the magnitude of the fraud. In close or disputed elections, and there are many, a small amount of fraud could make the margin of difference," the commission wrote. "And second, the perception of possible fraud contributes to low confidence in the system. A good ID system could deter, detect, or eliminate several potential avenues of fraud."

Americans seem to share the commission's concerns still today. A Just the News-Scott Rasmussen poll in April found two-thirds of voters believe expanded mail-in voting could increase fraud risks.

19 foreign nationals were charged in August in North Carolina with voter fraud after voting in the 2016 elections.
The charges are the latest in an ongoing investigation conducted by ICE officials.
Maybe this is why Democrats hate ICE so much? ICE.gov reported:Nineteen foreign nationals face federal charges in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina for illegally voting in the 2016 federal elections, according to federal charges publicly announced on Wednesday. These charges are the latest indictments to result from an ongoing years-long federal criminal investigation being conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Raleigh office.

A legal foundation has filed two court briefs that assert that double voting by the thousands happened in 2016-2018 in Georgia and North Carolina, as the nation prepares for its first large-scale, mail-in balloting to elect a president. Anti-universal mail ballot activists say the two states are a tip-off for what will happen in the Nov. 3 election.
PILF picked North Carolina and Georgia, where lawsuits are pending, to request a huge amount of voter data and then file two court briefs. In North Carolina, auditors found nearly 20,000 voters who appeared to have voted twice.

An investigation is underway after authorities reported finding piles of unopened mail dumped in two Glendale, Calif., locations this week.

Glendale Police Sgt. Christian Hauptmann said United States Postal Service personnel requested assistance with “possible stolen mail or whatever was dumped in an alleyway” on Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported. Hours later, a second call came in from a business owner who witnessed a similar incident in a parking lot nearby.

A local CW affiliate obtained footage from outside a spa that shows a Budget rental truck backing into a gate. A man then pulls bags of mail and parcels from within the vehicle and tosses them to the ground.

The Postal Service declined to comment on the incidents and whether they were related.

“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement, crime prevention and security arm of the Postal Service,” spokesperson Evelina Ramirez said, according to the Times. “In order to preserve the integrity of their investigations and to prevent fundamental unfairness to the subjects of those investigations, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service does not comment on any ongoing investigations.”

A Massachusetts town clerk has resigned after officials in the 4th Congressional District community lost track of thousands of ballots in the primary earlier this month. Franklin Town Clerk Teresa Burr on Friday stepped down to “re-establish confidence with the voters of this community in their elections,” she wrote in her resignation letter. Two days after the Sept. 1 primary, thousands of uncounted ballots surfaced in Franklin as the 4th Congressional District remained too close to call. Poll workers ended up counting the 3,000 ballots late into the night two days after the primary.