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2000 also had the "hanging chads" issue and confusing ballots that potentially caused people to choose a different candidate from what they wanted.
by allenu 6y ago
2000 also had the "hanging chads" issue and confusing ballots that potentially caused people to choose a different candidate from what they wanted.
- wernercd 6y ago2020 has ballots after the election day... Hanging chads were at least GUARENTEED to be cast before election. The race to change laws in various states at the last minute has guaranteed a faught and without hesitation leaves open the charge of fraud. There is zero reason why America shouldn't have VoterID free to all and sanity checks at the voter booth to guarentee 150+ year olds don't vote. https://www.indiarightnownews.com/seven-voters-older-than-the-oldest-human-being-alive-today-voted-in-michigan-including-one-man-born-in-1850/ https://www.indiarightnownews.com/seven-voters-older-than-th... The charges of fraud are only going to worse the longer those in power don't take real steps to fix the issues.
- joshuamorton 6y agoThere are no ballots cast after election day. There are some received after election day, but none in PA, where those ballots aren't included in any counts.
- maerF0x0 6y agoCan you help me understand how we'd know if a ballot were cast after election day, if received after election day? I understand postmark is one such form of "signature of authenticity" (in a sense). Are there others at play?
- joshuamorton 6y agoThere are (generally) three ways to vote. In person, absentee via some form of ballot drop off, and absentee by mail. In person and absentee ballots dropped off can be trivially found to be legitimate (timewise). You have them by 8PM or you don't. For mail-in ballots, states have different rules. Some states allow ballots received by the 12th or later, as long as the postmark is on or before election day. Some states require ballots to be received by election day. PA is under a microscope because ballots postmarked by the 3rd, but received by the 6th may or may not be counted, pending court decisions. Those ballots, however, are not included in current vote totals as reported by the state, so Biden won PA without those votes (and beyond the margin required for a recount). They'd just further extend his lead.