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RDANGELO

(3,435 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 02:45 AM Jul 2020

some unsettling things about mail-in voting.

If voter turnout on election day is as anticipated with more Trump voters going to the polls and most Biden voter voting by mail, Trump is going to be winning by the exit polls, and he might even be winning after election night, until the mail-in ballots are counted.

https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-usa-swing-state-voting-intention-19-to-24-july

An NPR analysis has found that in the primary elections held so far this year, at least 65,000 absentee or mail-in ballots have been rejected because they arrived past the deadline, often through no fault of the voter. Other ballots were rejected because people just didn't follow directions on things like signatures.

I am going to try and vote early sometime when it isn't so busy.

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some unsettling things about mail-in voting. (Original Post) RDANGELO Jul 2020 OP
Need to have a campaign hi-lighting these kinds of issues captain queeg Jul 2020 #1
I'm voting in person and early. Hell. I'll be back in my job by then, which takes place in Squinch Jul 2020 #2

captain queeg

(10,242 posts)
1. Need to have a campaign hi-lighting these kinds of issues
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 04:25 AM
Jul 2020

Encourage people to get their ballots in early. And for what it’s worth I think everyone, mail in or in person, ought to take a time stamped picture of their ballot. I will.

Squinch

(51,014 posts)
2. I'm voting in person and early. Hell. I'll be back in my job by then, which takes place in
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:04 AM
Jul 2020

5 schools and sometimes some hospitals. What's one more exposure to a virus that has a 20% chance of killing me?

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