The Twit tweets: Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system

[demmiblue]

And now, everyone in Florida should vote by mail

Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida’s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail! #MAGA

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[maxsolomon]

1. Heads snapping among his online water carriers.

NOW it's OK, because HE can't be bothered to vote in person.

[secondwind]

2. I wonder what the "Democrat changes" were.

Hmmmm.

Anyone smell a RAT??

[demmiblue]

4. Probably none. This, though:

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[SouthernCal_Dem]

7. Yep that about sums it up. nt

[gratuitous]

5. That ballot measure allowing former felons to vote, passed overwhelmingly by the people

The Republican dominated legislature fixed that small-d democratic action but good. Former felons can't vote until they've settled up with the state for their court costs, incarceration fees, restitution, and anything else someone can think of to tax them with. And when a felon goes to pay those outstanding costs, nobody can say for sure if they've been paid in full, because there's so many different agencies to settle up with. The State of Florida can't give a person an amount to pay, but if they say you haven't paid, you're out of luck getting to vote.

"That some catch, that Catch-22." "It's the best there is."

[stillcool]

3. Now that is some scary shit...

especially in Florida. I hope someone figures out what the plan is, so a work-around can be put in place.

[demmiblue]

6. Politico reported that Trump's false vote by mail voter fraud claims were hurting his reelection in

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Trump’s assault on mail voting threatens his reelection bid

Donald Trump’s all-out war on mail voting is backfiring in battleground states.

New private polling shared first with POLITICO showed that Republicans have become overwhelmingly concerned about mail balloting, which Trump has claimed without evidence, will lead to widespread voter fraud. A potentially decisive slice of Trump’s battleground-state base — 15 percent of Trump voters in Florida, 12 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 percent in Michigan — said that getting a ballot in the mail would make them less likely to vote in November.

Trump won each of those states by a thin margin in 2016, and less than 1 percent of Joe Biden voters said getting a ballot mailed to them would make them less likely to vote. Overall, 53 percent of voters in Florida and about half in Michigan and Pennsylvania expressed health concerns about casting their ballots in person and prefer voting by mail in November.

The poll is part of a late flurry of research trying to gauge swing-state voter attitudes as the coronavirus accelerates the trend of more and more voters casting their ballots by mail. While there are concerns that the U.S. Postal Service may not be able to handle the crush of ballots, some Republicans fear that Trump’s regular fulminations against mail voting will depress GOP turnout in the fall. He has repeated baseless claims of widespread fraud associated with mail voting, and late last week the president floated the idea of delaying the election because of it, which he does not have the constitutional authority to do.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trumps-assault-on-mail-voting-threatens-his-reelection-bid-390949