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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"It will be the greatest rigged election in history"
So tweeted Trump, on the 'danger' (to not only Trump, but all Republicans, allegedly) if mail-in voting is adopted in all states. (Nevermind that the facts show that, in those areas that have been using mail-in voting, no particular party has an advantage.)
We know that Trump has a habit of "projection". He could be informing us that the upcoming election is already rigged to re-elect Trump, despite him being way down to Biden virtually everywhere.
So there it is.
It will be up to all of us, but especially the press and the remaining elected officials with integrity, to prevent that from happening.
Or, it could be that Trump is just trolling us. Again.
malaise
(268,967 posts)Down he goes
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Could be one of the most lopsided in history, if the slow hand of justice is upheld.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)I know! I shall accuse the Democrats of fraud!"
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Allegations of "voter fraud" get disproved. Yet the GOP persists. It is a convenient cover, and excuse, for more laws to enact voter suppression. Whittle off a few hundred here, a few thousand there, pretty soon you have GOP everywhere.
What is still overlooked is "election fraud", much more easily done by electronics, and software, and dishonest brokers in just the wrong places.
Surely we can get to a place where everyone can trust elections.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)What a putz.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)RussBLib
(9,006 posts)That he owes millions, and probably hundreds of millions of dollars, to Russians? Can they be that stupid, he asked, incredulously?
I heard that on Morning Joe this morning.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)But, some don't believe it because they do still believe the failure is a billionaire.
My bet is he has less than 2x the total of what he "borrowed" & inherited.
Meaning a 2fold increase over 48 years.
Roughly 1.5% per year.
In the 70s, bank accounts were paying 4%.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)We've had it for a few elections, now. I think Oregon has been voting by mail for years.
Oregon has the most convenient voting system in the country. Since adopting vote-by-mail, Oregon consistently ranks as a national leader in voter turnout.
Registered voters receive a ballot two to three weeks before an election, giving time to research issues or candidates.
Voters also receive an official ballot to complete and insert into the security envelope which is placed in the ballot return envelope and signed by the voter. The ballot return envelope can be stamped and mailed or dropped off at any official drop boxacross the state. If a voter casts their ballot after the Wednesday before an election, the ballot should be left at a drop box site to ensure it's counted.
Ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
The bolded text is why repubs are against vote-by-mail.
SKKY
(11,804 posts)By trying to prohibit mail-in voting, the GOP is trying to rig the election in their favor. By that measure, it would be the greatest rigged election in history.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)Everyone knows he's going to cheat. We see it happening already, with the various smear campaigns (See: Reade, Tara.) and Russian Twitter bot plagues. Those aren't working, so he is trying to tar Biden as the actual cheater.