08-14-2020, 11:35 PM
(08-14-2020, 11:16 PM)Antisthenes Wrote:(08-14-2020, 10:54 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:(08-14-2020, 10:20 PM)Antisthenes Wrote: Really? President and his family are voting by mail.
Absentee ballot voting is different than just regular voting by mail. Much safer, and the only reason he's having to do mail-in is because his residence is in FL and he's in D.C.
Keep telling yourself that.....
We are in agreement here. Absentee voting is every bit as useless as mail-in voting. Absentee ballots do not even get counted unless there are enough in any given precinct to affect the results of that precinct, and there rarely ever are. Absentee ballots travel the same routes as mail-in votes, and are therefore just as susceptible to loss, trash-canning, getting replaced by more favorable votes in the mail box by canvassers, or getting "forgotten" in someone's trunk unless and until they are needed to sway results. They are every bit as subject to being "vote milled" and inflated for this party or that as mail-in votes.
Absentee ballots are no more secure than mail-in ballots. It's just that with the current scheme, mail-in ballots are meant to be the majority of votes, so that "vote early, vote often" becomes a far more dangerous possibility.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’