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Here's Debbie Wasserman-Schulz in 2008 saying mail-in voting leads to fraud: https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1265698785813987328 https://twitter.com/M2Madn

by m0zg 6y ago

Here's Debbie Wasserman-Schulz in 2008 saying mail-in voting leads to fraud: https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1265698785813987328 https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1265698785813987328 Why does the entire liberal establishment (and its "free" press) insist on the non-sensical notion that mail-in voting is _less_ prone to fraud than in-person voting? The DNC doth protest too much, methinks.

_fizz_buzz_ 6y ago
She didn't say that you don't need to register to vote though. Also, finding a politician who says one thing today and another thing 12 years before is hardly an art. There is a whole subreddit about Trump: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/
082349872349872 6y ago
Almost all voting is mail-in here. But then again, we basically have a one-person one-vote system; from the outside, it seems your "electoral college" is voter fraud on a far grander (and far more institutionalised) scale than either gerrymandering or individual bad actors. Then again, the US is strange: we can all agree that single-party states are bad, yet the US insists their two party state is somehow better than a multi-party state? (mOzg, would you mind terribly answering my question about convertible rubles in "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311253 спс!)
millstone 6y ago
The "mail-in voting is fraud" idea is a transparent attempt to disenfranchise voters who happen to live in cities and don't have 2+ hours to wait in line. Is in-person voting better? Republicans have been working to close in-person urban poll sites for years. They want to make it as hard as possible for city dwellers to vote, full stop. [1]. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/us-polling-sites-closed-report-supreme-court-ruling https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/us-polling-s...
- m0zg 6y ago
  Was it also a "transparent attempt" in 2008 as well? Or should Debbie be "fact checked" here? I'm getting all confused.

by m0zg 6y ago

_fizz_buzz_ 6y ago

She didn't say that you don't need to register to vote though. Also, finding a politician who says one thing today and another thing 12 years before is hardly an art. There is a whole subreddit about Trump: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/

082349872349872 6y ago

Almost all voting is mail-in here. But then again, we basically have a one-person one-vote system; from the outside, it seems your "electoral college" is voter fraud on a far grander (and far more institutionalised) scale than either gerrymandering or individual bad actors. Then again, the US is strange: we can all agree that single-party states are bad, yet the US insists their two party state is somehow better than a multi-party state? (mOzg, would you mind terribly answering my question about convertible rubles in "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311253 спс!)

millstone 6y ago

The "mail-in voting is fraud" idea is a transparent attempt to disenfranchise voters who happen to live in cities and don't have 2+ hours to wait in line. Is in-person voting better? Republicans have been working to close in-person urban poll sites for years. They want to make it as hard as possible for city dwellers to vote, full stop. [1]. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/us-polling-sites-closed-report-supreme-court-ruling https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/us-polling-s...

m0zg 6y ago
Was it also a "transparent attempt" in 2008 as well? Or should Debbie be "fact checked" here? I'm getting all confused.