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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's the real reason Trump and the GOP don't want mail-in voting
Published 2 mins ago on May 27, 2020
By Thom Hartmann- Commentary
Trump and Republicans dont want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes.
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Leading up to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemps contest with Stacey Abrams in 2018, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal documented how 8 percent of the states polling places had been recently closed, hitting rural black areas particularly hard. The Washington Post chronicled how broken voting machinesand the long lines they createwere largely confined to downtown Atlanta and black suburbs and rural areas.
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Another trick the GOP likes is to merge the effects of voter registration purges with provisional ballots. First, Republican Secretaries of State throw hundreds of thousands of people off the voter rolls, disproportionately Hispanics and African Americans, by using merge/purge lists of felons or voters from other states with large black populations.
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With mail-in voting, people know before they vote if theyve been purged from the voter list, because they dont get a ballot in the mail. Ballots are mailed out early enough that people whove been purged will have time to figure out theres a problem and contact the Secretary of States office to get it fixed.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/heres-the-real-reason-trump-and-the-gop-dont-want-mail-in-voting/
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)For years. They don't want our votes counted like thiers get counted because they know and have admitted they'll never win another election if it is honest accountable and fair.
Call the republicans on the fact they fear a fair vote in public on tv. Tell them they are chicken to face the truth they cheat because nobody wants them in power.
Put them in the position to admit it or prove it by letting voting by mail proceed unhindered.
And that's a GOOD thing!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)On-line registration, checking your registration, and asking for a mail in ballot. Thus, there is no excuse for not voting.
There are roughly 30 states with no excuse absence voting and a few states with voting by mail required. Thus, there is no excuse for not checking ones registration and voting. There are plenty of organizations that will help if you dont have computer access.
The other states need to allow voting by mail, especially during a pandering.
KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)USPS supported.
No money in it for him.
Harder to cheat vs Diebold.
The list goes on.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Donald J Trump, Fox News, April 2020
- This is why.
TeamPooka
(24,277 posts)wnylib
(21,703 posts)to hack into state or precinct vote counts to change them would be hindered by mail-in voting, too.
One other reason why Trump is bad- mouthing the mail in ballots is because he knows he will lose. He is setting the stage now to claim vote fraud when the numbers don't fall in his favor.
So we need to counter that right now in order to change the expectation of fraud that Trump is planting in people's minds. Make people aware right now of how he is setting the stage for himself to reject the outcome and stay in office illegally. Undercut this move before it sinks into people's minds to expect fraud.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)couldn't someone easily throw away ballots once they were received? When they are opened and the person doing the counting sees there are votes for Democrats on there, couldn't they just throw it out? How is that more secure than voting by easily hacked machines? What am I missing? Seems that both ways suck.