Re: RNC 2020: Trump warns Republican convention of ‘rigged election’
Originally Posted by
OldGreyFox
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I agree with Trump, even despite fraud it's too risky to rely on the postal service to deliver so much mail in the time allowed. The US Mail itself, has cast doubts on its ability to distribute so much mail, bearing in mind that regular mail will still be in the system. Mail goes missing, delivered late, or even gets lost even in the most efficient postal companies.
If able bodied people can't get themselves down to the polling station with ID if that's required (and I think it should be) they should forfeit their vote. Using Covid as an excuse is pathetic! If people are too frightened to turn out, Donald should stay in office until they will go out.
The risk of "fraud" is almost non-existent:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53353404
The rate of voting fraud overall in the US is between
0.00004% and 0.0009%, according to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice.
USPS has been deliberately "sabotaged" by its' own Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump appointee who, instead of ramping up capacity to handle what could be double the number of mail-in ballots cast compared with the last presidential election, took a series of steps this summer that could dramatically cut back USPS ability to handle the unprecedented number of ballots it will receive. He is still under pressure to revoke those changes (currently he is performing badly before the House oversight committee) but has merely "paused" the operation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-house-hearing
Several (mostly Western) states already have postal-only voting, many offer postal voting as an alternative and a few (mostly Southern) require a reason to cast ballots by mail:
US electors also have other options:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/usps-cri...done-about-it/
- Vote early in person: Forty-one states allow voters to cast their ballots up to 45 days before election day, letting them avoid crowds.
- Use a ballot drop box: Many states and counties provide ballot drop boxes for voters to return their mail-in ballot without having to mail it.
- Drop off your ballot at an election office or polling location: Almost all states permit voters to return a delivered ballot in person at their local election office on or before election day, Elias said, and many states allow voters to drop off their signed and sealed ballots at any in-person voting location.
At the last election, 31,000,000 mailed in their vote - some of them, undoubtedly, would have been for Trump .....