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Why would you wait in line 11 hours to vote when you can drop off your ballot at a ballot box?
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
Why would you wait in line 11 hours to vote when you can drop off your ballot at a ballot box?
- dvtrn 6y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/texas-election-ballot-drop-box-ruling/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/texas-election-ballot-drop... One ballot box per county in some counties means waiting hours in line for that too.
- beervirus 6y agoYou can also mail them in. That whole thing was a fake controversy.
- dvtrn 6y agoI suspect you and I define the words “fake” and “controversy” quite differently.
- beervirus 6y agoThe opinion issued by the federal appeals court gives a lot more context than any news article I've seen. Even if you read just the first couple of pages, you'll be better-informed than 99% of the people talking about this, and I suspect you'll see my point. http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-50867-CV0.pdf http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-50867-CV0.pdf
- dvtrn 6y agoI’m not sure what bearing a court opinion has on my criticism of your calling the events that happened in Texas “fake”; regardless that said court decided the impact of Abbott’s proclamation was de minimis.
- beervirus 6y agoThe court opinion explains what actually happened. My point was that the controversy was fake, not that the events were fake.
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- failuser 6y agoAre sure the post office is reliable at this point?
- 542354234235 6y agoExcept that one political party has been in the process of attempting to cripple the Post Office and their ability to operate effectively and efficiently for the last 6 months leading up to the election. If I were a paranoid person, I would say it almost looks like some sort of concerted effort. “They need that money in order to make the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.” President Trump
- 0x262d 6y agothere are no ballot boxes in many locations and long lines form at them too.
- thebooktocome 6y agoBecause where they do exist, it's really hard to tell if that ballot box is real. Because one political party has decided to install fake ballot boxes.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoSource?
- AaronM 6y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-gop-drop-boxes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-go...
- Mindless2112 6y agoThe Republican Party of California set up ballot boxes in locations frequented by Republican voters so that they can harvest Republican-favorable ballots and... throw them away? I get that putting up ballot boxes that pose as "Official" should/may be illegal, but the ballots that go into those boxes are going to get delivered and counted.
- thebooktocome 6y agoWhat they have done constitutes a felony. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ca-gop-ballot-drop-boxes/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ca-gop-ballot-drop-boxes/
- efa 6y agoShenanigans are not limited to one of the political parties. https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/project-veritas-uncovers-ballot-harvesting-fraud-in-minnesota/ https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/project-veritas-uncovers-ballo...
- thebooktocome 6y agoProject Veritas is a famously unreliable source.
- ryanschneider 6y agoThat’s kind of the point, not every district has ballot boxes to drop off at. I think some of us (myself included) have forgotten that all parts of the US aren’t the same.
- rootsudo 6y agoParanoia that the postman, post office, and several different people are working together to get your vote to not count and you can wait in line to cast your vote and make "sure" it counts.
- AaronM 6y agoIn Texas, where I live, the Republican Governor ordered counties to remove all but one box in each county. In California, the Republican party setup unofficial drop boxes that aren't legal.
- api 6y ago> the Republican party setup unofficial drop boxes that aren't legal. How is this not a felony? AFAIK it is a felony to set up a fake mailbox to steal peoples' mail.
- AaronM 6y agoSome states have allow for ballot harvesting, where you can legally take someone else's ballot to the drop box. So these boxes are a bit of a grey area, as ballot harvesting is legal in CA. The NYT article from this morning said the CA AG has issued a cease and desist order, so its likely to be challenged in the court.
- efa 6y agoOr wait a couple days. People who can't wait to vote will head out on day one of early voting.