More than 100,000 mail-in ballots did not get counted in the California primary this year. Will this failure rate impact Trump vs. Biden 2020? Bill Whittle and Scott Ott break it down.
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The State of Washington just generously sent my husband and me six ballots, as they always do, for our August 4th primary. Our four sons range in age from 41 to 31 and are responsible adults living and registered to vote elsewhere. Wanna come and pick up some ballots? There’s plenty of time before August 4th.
Nope, no fraud here. It’s been just peachy ever since Christine Gregoire (D) won the governorship in 2004 by 129 votes after two recounts.
Of course, I’m pretty sure our votes won’t count anyway, because for our February Special Election – I forget what it was for – we had to write a party affiliation ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE. Voters were warned that any ballots in envelopes with the party preference left blank would be thrown out. I’d be willing to bet ballots in envelopes that said “republican” were thrown out, too, or at least enough of them.) And for a couple of years now our signatures have also had to be ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE.
Another tidbit: I counted 36 people running for governor. Thirty-six! But of course the idiot Jay Inslee will win in a landslide.
My absentee ballot for our primary this year required postage. I’m in Georgia. Looks to me like a poll tax.
I am working at my polls this primary and will work at the general. Went to training yesterday. Will be required to wear a mask or a shield. The trainer was very grateful that our Governor Doug Ducey, gave them enuf masks for everyone to have 2, but told us to wash them b4 wearing. Pick them up when you leave. They were made in China. Thanks Gov. Think I’ll buy my own face shield.
An important aspect to the damage of not-in-person voting is the loss of the private ballot: strong-arming granny, or holding the car keys hostage to the unemployed millennial.
When that ballot is completed in the presence of anyone else beside the voter, the vote is no longer pure.
My kids wanted to “vote with me”–well, some did–at the kitchen table. As much as I wanted to, I knew better.
CO is all mail-in. While they can carefully keep the rolls up to date and faithfully check signatures, there’s no way to ascertain or assure that the vote is honest or made under duress.
On the side of reality? Our challenge is to overcome the generalized assumption that reality is optional and that wish, whim, and arbitrary preference is all that is necessary.
Measured by success is a reality based concept which is thought to be easily overcome by magical thinking. If you “feel” you are a victim, you deserve more. If you “feel” that others are not victims, they are the ones who must pay. Full context and reality based reference for your ideas is proof you are a victimizer and must pay.
How much? Obviously your fair share. How much is your fair share? More, always and forever more. If you have anything left, you owe it to those who did NOTHING to make it happen.
The interesting thing is that reality is not optional. It is what it is and cannot be what it is not. It is our task, if we wish to stay alive, to know this, to work to understand what reality is, and to act accordingly. Every attempt to act otherwise degrades to human sacrifice for the sake of human sacrifice and ultimately ends in failure. The failure is NOT because reality did not cooperate. The failure is because reality was ignored and was expected to be other than it is.
The idea that requiring voter ID and that someone physically go to a polling place to vote is somehow disenfranchising citizens is not the point. That’s a red herring, a casus belli and a means justified by the ends. If you eliminate voter fraud by requiring ID and the physical presence of the voter you also eliminate the chances for subterfuge in the voting process. That’s what the left does not want to see come about.
In a lot of nations they let you vote, then you have to dip your finger in ink so that you cannot vote again (the inked finger indicating you’ve voted once already) in order to eliminate voter fraud. Those people are proud of their inked fingers. They do not complain about the unbearable burden of providing ID and dragging themselves to the polls.
As with sales techniques, the need here is to nullify the objection. You may not realize it but when you go to buy something the sales(person) is waiting for you to bring up objections, which they will then nullify one by one to move you towards the sale. You’ll say “I can’t afford that” and the sales goat will say “With our new low, low monthly financing you can have this beautiful ___ and barely even realize you’re paying for it!” — Or you’ll say “Well I don’t really need that ___” and the sales goat knows you don’t need it but that you do want it and will say “Just think of all the extra ____ of ____ this will save you every day!”, thus giving you reasons to overcome your own objections. This is the way promotion and merchandising work. It’s all well and good for Bill to splutter about “minimum obligations” and such things but that isn’t what moves the sale forward so …
It seems to me that one solution would be to make EBT cards with pictures of the authorized bearer and use them for voter registration and polling identification too. If you can get an EBT card, you can vote. This will eliminate the objection to nearly all the “poor people can’t afford drivers licenses and picture IDs” because they sure as hell can afford to get off their lazy posteriors and get their social entitlement benefits flowing, so use that as a form of registration. Once an EBT card is presented as voter verification it cannot be used for that again in the same election cycle.
There are other schemes too but this is getting long so …
Remember, the whole aim is to eliminate voter fraud, not to force people to meet their minimum civic duties. We don’t CARE if they’re responsible or interested in exercising their franchise or not. All we care about is that the vote isn’t corrupted and compromised. We need to overcome the objections to verified voter identity not demand that irresponsible, slothful people suddenly become responsible and vigorous for a couple hours every two years. Bill’s right, meeting the minimum is a reasonable demand but that’s not working. It does no good to die on that hill if we lose the Republic anyway.
In Australia voting is mandatory under penalty of law. I lived there for a couple years and had quite a few discussions about this with the Aussies. My view is that if you don’t care enough about voting to do it on your own, we don’t really want you to vote anyway so compulsory voting under threat of criminal prosecution isn’t the way we want to go. But … It does do one thing for the Aussies we don’t have going on here. Every single eligible voter has to vote and have that voted recorded (or provide a reasonable excuse) to avoid prosecution for failing to vote. They can thereby only vote once and the voter rolls are always current and up to date so that the government doesn’t waste resources chasing down non-voters who are in cemeteries and such things to prosecute them. There is voter fraud in Australia but it doesn’t come in the form of ballot box stuffing by ineligible voters, multiple voters and dead people.
Note, I’m suggesting that we think out of the box here. I am in no way suggesting that we do so much as a single damn thing the way Australia does it, that place is FUBAR.
This myth of it’s hard to go vote needs to be busted.
My little county of 100,000 people has 33 polling places for 251 sq. miles. That comes to a circle of roughly 1.55mi diameter to get to a polling place if they were evenly distributed by geography. Since they are distributed by population some may have to go as far as five miles.
For the City which is separate from the county, they had 33 as well in 2016 for only 43 sq. miles. For 2020 that has been reduced to 20 locations. So a circle of less than a mile radius to cover the city.
They are only ever busy in the early morning as people go to work and the early evening as people stop on their way home. During mid-day, nada.
In 26 years here, the most crowded I ever saw was 2016. First time I had to wait in line at all at 7am.
This is not a burden.
Getting an ID is not a burden. You can’t stay in a hotel without one.
These are just talking points that need to be loudly repudiated.
In many (most?) jurisdictions, distance from the polling place isn’t that important — most political parties will get you a ride to your polling precinct.
Heck, I’ve even read that Vermont and New Hampshire will even give people a ride to the polls from Massachusetts.
and the cemeteries?
Here in Az our Dem Sec of State is fighting with our Rep. Attorney General over the 2016 ban on ballot harvesting. The 9th circuit court of appeals said the law (HB2023) passed in 2016,discouraged minority voting because minorities “may not have reliable mail service and were more dependent on civic and political groups to get their ballots delivered on time to be counted.” Just another way to make it easier to do election fraud.
The SOS is asking the Supreme court to ignore our AG’s request for the court to review the 9th circuit ruling. There’s also an issue of the 2016 ban which states your vote will not be counted if you vote outside your precinct. Another way to lift the ban and encourage vote fraud, imo. Sheesh!
So, I just had an incident relevant to this in NJ. I will preface all I’m about to say with the fact that I agree with Bill, I hate the idea, and mail-in for the general will be a fraud-ridden disaster.
My state went to automatic mail-in for the primaries because of the virus. If you didn’t want to mail-in, they had a whole rigmarole for you to return your ballot and show up to one of very few in-person places which were not your normal places.
Now, when I first registered to vote, just before entering college, I wrote my name, rather than signing it. I also radically changed even my regular handwriting in college and developed what would be, for the next 20 years, my adult signature.
But, every time I go to vote (my state does not require ID), I have to look at my old writing in the book and try to match it when I sign in.
Well, the mail-in didn’t present me with my old, written name as a reminder, so when I submitted my mail-in, I just signed it normally without giving it a second thought.
Well, it came back. I now have to provide my driver’s license and fill out a thing. I’m also going to add a letter. I’d love to finally get my official voting signature to match my official signature for literally everything else from banking to DMV to passports.
In any event, I would have been very disheartened had the accepted it without question, as the two look nothing whatsoever alike. It was good to know that they caught it.
(…and we still shouldn’t do mail-in voting!)