mail in voting

[Mike M (the other one)]

(06-23-2020, 11:43 AM)fredtoast Wrote: You are the one who is clueless about "context".

The "context" of Trump's opposition to mail in voting is that voter suppression benefits Republicans and multiple Republicans have admitted that supressing the vote benefits them.

The "context" regarding voter fraud is that the biggest most recent case of voter fraud benefitted the Republicans in the Ninth district of North Carolina.  So why would Trump be concerned about voter fraud when the only recent evidence is that voter fraud benefits Republicans more than Deomcrats.

Clueless lib parrot. CNN 4 life!

Show me where Trump said he supports voter suppression. Not his aide. Words directly from Trump himself. Dem fluff pieces don't work either. 

Also voter fraud doesn't matter which side did it or it favored. It's still voter fraud. You named an incident in NC, I can name one in WV where a mail carrier was arrested. 

I think 100% mail in voting is bad. If people don't have a simple photo id for in person voting, then what makes you think that their address is going to be correct in the system? 

Here is the problem. 
In person. You check in get.your ballot and after scan it. Done, unless there is an error you need to fix, which you are notified of right away. Your paper ballot then goes into a stack in case a recount is needed. And technically, isn't touch again.

Mail in.
Gov sends everyone a ballot. Addresses will not be always correct. So thousands won't  even have an option to vote. 

Next. Mail carrier has to deliver it, you fill it out. Send it back. Mail carrier picks it up. Gets sorted and goes thru mail again where another mail carrier delivers it to another place where I guess it is scanned and if incomplete it is either rejected or another person fills in the blanks for you based on their interpretation. And we know everyone is honest right? Now if your ballot is outright rejected, you are not even informed. So your vote didn't even matter. 

Bottom line: mail ins are touched multiple times by strangers and at any of those points something can happen. 

Personally, I don’t believe mail-in ballots give either party a major advantage. Sure based on demographics of certain areas, but thats counter balanced by demographics in another area. It's not decided by popular vote in US, its based on EC. Red states will likely stay red and same with blue. The swing states are the ones that matter the most. 

Many countries require some sort of proof to vote. So I don't see why its a big deal for the US to require it either.