get it to x wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 2:36 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 2:04 pm
Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 1:35 pm
elonmuskrockefeller wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 1:17 pm
Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 1:15 pm
elonmuskrockefeller wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:51 pm
Congratulations to the Senate democrats
for suddenly pulling ahead
& winning surprise victories
By the perfect margins
4 days after polls close
In the dead of night
Only in states with mail in voting
For the 2nd time in a row.
We’d never seen anything like it
In 244yrs.
Whining becomes you.
It seems like a sensible observation, which anyone worth their weight in honesty would freely admit.
Sensible observation? Nope; stupid, biased and conjectural. Start at the bottom.
This is not the first time in 244 years; it happens and happens frequently when the vote is sharply and narrowly split. This is why we could call the race for Nevada governor -- not so razor thin -- and still have to await results in other races.
Not the "second time in a row." It happens and has happened before. Umm, 2000 for the presidency in Florida. Arizona has had very close races in 2010, 2014, 2016. When the electorate is narrowly divided, vote counts take time. Observers -- real ones, at the polling and counting areas, not like PeteMuskatelle -- are in place and watching and -- ready dumdum? -- none of them has chimed in with anything sinister or even suggestive.
Mail in voting didn't sink your baby doll Boebert. But today, it's all corrupt? Sure.
The dead of night? Volunteer poll workers working diligently to get the job done, working through the night. I think you meant, "thanks for your service, while I sit in 'Westchester' with my thumb...."
Not sudden, and not surprise. People track where the votes are coming from and can make educated guesses. Follow Jon Ralston in Nevada,; he was saying on election night that CCM was close enough to Laxalt that when Clar County got counted, she'd likely narrowly pull it out. She did. He knew stuff. You don't.
You're just like fuzzy background girl; your ill-founded spoiled boy bullsh*t lends itself only to destabilizing the country you pretend to love, and that you say folks like me "hate."
If we wanted to have a "faster" process for the Presidential race, we could do so like France. But it actually takes much longer.
Federally run, no differences by state, staffed to do so, first vote only determines top 2, which is usually quickly apparent...then you gotta vote again on another Sunday, but second time no other races involved, so the only counting is for the single race with just 2 candidates, no other federal, no other state or town to count. You can vote at any polling station, not just the one near your home.
No reason to think counts are any more accurate than in the US or favors higher participation. Indeed, last election had US 5% higher than France's participation.
If we made Election Day a federal holiday and we could go to any polling place in the country where we happened to be that day, we wouldn't need absentee or early voting periods. Except we actually would, for expats and military, and people traveling overseas...but hey, who cares about them?
So you would be ok with no mail in or early voting then? (Absentee is fine for military and expats.) Or ballot harvesting, which won it for Masto? And how about we not seat any Representative or Senator from any state that doesn't clean up their voter rolls? Or require voter ID. Any problem with any of these? I would add a one year minimum sentence for voter fraud. Voting is a sacred right and we can make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Or travel.
Personally, I found early voting super easy and convenient. I also found mail-in drop box voting super easy during Covid. I have ZERO objection to either.
No, "ballot harvesting" did not happen for Mastro.
It's perfectly legal and desirable IMO for friends/family to deliver a ballot on behalf of someone, with signature match.
But that made no difference in that election.
Where do you get the BS notion that it did???
Do you want federal voting? So, if I'm not in Maryland on Election Day and instead am in Florida, can I vote for my ballot choices in Maryland from Florida?
That'd be nice, wouldn't need the early or mail-in. But I'd need a ballot...
Or are you a states' rights' guy???
Now, as to actual intentional fraud of some magnitude (and I don't count putting in a ballot for a parent who died last month nor an ineligible voter who thought they were eligible), I'd have more than a 1 year jail time. You falsify a whole bunch of votes in an attempt to actually tip an election, you go to jail and hard time, not some country club.