`...answer the question timmeh - why in your world is every absentee ballot except trump's an opportunity to cheat

I`ve already put this to bed, above;

`...All postal votes, mail-in or absentee, create opportunities for fraud...`

How is it lefties never see what they don`t like? Yet imagine all sorts of things that don`t exist? Is it TDS? Or is it just another malady of theirs, another defining characteristic?

https://thebulwark.com/natural-born-citizens/

The future that Trumpists worry about is already here. Kamala Harris is the face of America in 2020, the tawny-skinned child of immigrants. She is as American as apple pie and hot dogs, as pizza and ramen noodles, as empanadas and samosas—and there is little Donald Trump or his apologists can do about it.

Absentee votes have had a number of fraudulent cases but, by and large, it`s small scale, with nobody seeing it as a serious problem. So yes, The Don`s `going ahead`, knowing fraud is not only possible, but pretty much guaranteed, with even his own vote at risk of being lost/stolen/intercepted/uncounted, but not fraud to a result-changing degree

They (and many others like them) all referred to it as the china/chinese/wuhan virus until their globalist paymasters in beijing realised what a PR disaster it was, and ordered them to stop.

^^rofl are any of those links after January?  Here's some more recent ones

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-defends-racist-coronavirus-term/index.html

Increased racist rhetoric by politicians, like President Donald Trump’s erroneous use of the term “China Virus” for COVID-19, is often the first step to racialized violence.

https://theconversation.com/anti-asian-racism-during-coronavirus-how-the-language-of-disease-produces-hate-and-violence-134496

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/trump-tweets-about-coronavirus-using-term-chinese-virus-n1161161


Trump tweets about coronavirus using term 'Chinese Virus'
The CDC has warned against naming diseases after locations, saying it stigmatizes residents.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-22/trump-kung-flu-coronavirus

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Here`s yet another ongoing case;


New Jersey's All-Mail Vote Debacle Is a Warning for November

Even as New Jersey voters look to the general election, many are still coping with the aftermath of the state’s first all-mail vote. Paterson, the Garden State’s third-largest city, is mired in a burgeoning election scandal. One in five ballots have been rejected. The local NAACP has cried foul. And now, four men — including a councilman and councilman-elect — have been charged by the state’s attorney general with criminal election fraud.

The state’s May 12 election was conducted entirely by mail on Gov. Phil Murphy’s order. Ballots were automatically sent to every registration. That makes Paterson an early test of the vote-by-mail model now being pushed in unison by the political left. The fact that it immediately went off the rails is a warning to the nation that we would be foolish to ignore.

Concerns began mounting before voting had even ended. Undeliverable ballots piled up in trash cans and apartment lobbies. Even though state law forbids anyone from collecting more than three ballots, roughly 800 ballots were found bundled together — 400 were stuffed into one mailbox, and 360 more were found in another in a completely different town. That evidence of illegal vote harvesting led officials to reject them all.

Another 1,214 votes were disqualified because the voters’ signatures did not match official records, and 1,000 more because the “bearer” — the person who collected and delivered the vote — didn’t properly report doing so. Voters reported never receiving ballots even though they are listed as having voted — in other words, someone else purportedly cast their vote.

Ultimately, nearly 20% of ballots cast on May 12 were invalidated. Paterson NAACP leader Rev. Kenneth Clayton summed it up best: “These kinds of acts make people not want to vote anymore.”

Unsurprisingly, the four people recently indicted face charges that they illegally possessed or tampered with ballots. Fresh accusations are coming to light that one of the defendant’s campaigns hired workers to churn out fraudulent votes in bulk.

The simple fact is, mail voting is more susceptible to error and fraud than voting in person. Bad actors can get their hands on mail ballots and alter, forge, or destroy them. Anytime voting takes place away from the controlled and observed confines of a polling place, it is less secure. Fifteen years ago a commission co-chaired by President Jimmy Carter warned that mail-in voting is likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections.”

That’s as true today as it was then.

Jury-rigging a vote-by-mail system doesn’t just risk fraud. The New Jersey Spotlight reported that one in 10 ballots cast statewide were rejected for various reasons. Many arrived too late to be counted, a stark reminder that mail ballots can be lost or delayed. Roughly a third of rejected ballots had something wrong with the ballot itself: the ballot was not enclosed, for instance, or was missing information necessary to be processed.

These sorts of mistakes — to say nothing of innocent errors like voting for too many candidates in a single race — are easily fixed at polling places. Not so when those votes are mailed in. Studies show that first-time absentee voters are more likely to make mistakes that force officials to disqualify their ballots. Let’s not forget, an unprecedented portion of the electorate this fall will be first-time mail voters. Imagine the nightmare of a November election decided by a hair, but with a sizable percentage of ballots thrown out.

Vote-by-mail proponents retort that the obvious solution to the problem of rejected ballots is to discard the rules and safeguards that lead to ballots being invalidated. Liberal groups and their allies have filed dozens of partisan lawsuits across the nation to force this plan on states. Its core pillars: Automatically mail ballots even to voters who are likely deceased or have moved away, allow vote harvesting, and dismantle the systems that states use to stop vote tampering and ensure each vote is cast by a lawful voter.

In other words, the aim of the vote-by-mail crowd is to create all the conditions that made the Paterson election ripe for fraud, but remove the tools that allowed that fraud to be detected, stopped, and prosecuted. Do they really believe no one will take advantage of that free-for-all?
Most voters understand that in fair elections it must be both easy to vote, and hard to cheat. Fraud, both real and perceived, turns people off.

States are down to the wire to finalize their plans for voting this fall. Vulnerable voters need to be able to request absentee votes, but that is a far cry from the all-mail election that activists are pining for. Their plan is a recipe for disaster. If we implement it, we may soon be asking ourselves how we could have ignored Paterson’s warning.





And here`s the all too obvious outcome;



Singh Calls for Recount After Ballot Fiasco in NJ Leaves Tens of Thousands Uncounted, Thrown Away and Lost

With over 40,000 ballots not yet reported and over 27,000 ballots known to have been thrown away and not counted, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Hirsh Singh has filed for recounts in all 21 New Jersey counties.  Singh is just over 1% behind his opponent, former Obama Democrat Rikin Mehta, meaning those uncounted votes are important.Singh has announced he is seeking a recount in the still-uncertified U.S. Senate race more than three weeks after the Primary Election took place.

“The people pay taxes to have fair and open elections. They deserve to have their votes counted. Their voices will not be silenced,” Singh said.

“This election is replete with disparities, discrepancies, and irregularities,” said Singh, who has been fighting to receive information on the number of basic votes and other pertinent election data from each of New Jersey’s 21 counties since July 7th, the date of the Primary Election.

Singh said so far, judges in four counties have signed orders authorizing recounts to commence while hearings are set to be held in four more counties today.

“Phil Murphy has caused chaos, concern, and confusion that Vladimir Putin and the Chinese Communist Party could only dream of,” Singh said. “Tens of thousands of voters have been disenfranchised as a result of his mandatory vote-by-mail scheme, and he and his cronies in Trenton seem content to normalize these deficiencies and erode our tradition of holding fair, open, and honest elections. Not on my watch.”

In seeking recounts in each of the 21 counties, Singh has cited a multitude of troubling issues:

Ballots postmarked July 8th were improperly counted and/or separated from ballots postmarked on July 7th; the deadline by which all vote-by-mail ballots were to be accepted
Ballots marked with a clear intention by the voter but that were unable to be read by vote-counting machines
Ballots thrown out for minor matters such as stray markings
Ballots thrown out for lack of response to “cure” letters; a process that is wholly unfamiliar to voters
Ballots counted in secret, without campaign challengers having the benefit of being present for the process
Ballots found in unsealed bags without chain-of-custody history
Ballots rejected for unspecified/unreported reasons

Singh said the circumstances surrounding this election are unprecedented. He could think of no other election in recent memory where tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised, and where a candidate seeking basic information on his election was illegally denied that information or ignored by elections officials.“This would never happen in a regular New Jersey election, Singh said. “Would tens of thousands of people be told in traditional polling places like firehouses, gymnasiums or community centers across the state, ‘Sorry, but your vote doesn’t count this year?’

“The people wouldn’t stand for it. The people would outright reject it. But Phil Murphy and his team of lackeys in the Attorney General’s Office think they can trick the people of NJ because the election was conducted by mail.”
Singh said that if the votes from this unprecedented Primary Election are not properly and transparently counted across the state, Murphy and his minions would try to get away with even more shenanigans this November.

dave, what do you call ebola? And Lyme disease?



No, the answer`s not; `The Don`s fault`!

As a man so keen for answers, why have you swerved answering this one, please?

InsiderTrader 15 Aug 20 23:25 
So saying 'China Virus' in January was NOT racist.
But saying 'China Virus' in August IS racist ?????????

Or are willing to say CNN, Guardian, BBC, Channel 4 etc are racist for saying it?

He`s utterly flummoxed, had to put in an Official Call to beijing to find out what today`s party line is.

Apparently Joe and Kamala are sending Mexican dogs ballot papers and the dogs are voting then going out to their cars putting on a different collar and going back in and voting over and over.

It’s important that we use the term China virus at least from time to time
Lest we forget and it happens again
Keep a close watch on CHINA if they ever so much as get the flu

I can't believe you are really this obtuse - a virus that is mainly located in China, as it was in January, is clearly going to use the word China in reporting.  After the virus spread that reporting stopped.


Are you going to continue to use the racist trope "China virus"?

Dave, only Trump and his followers use this racist term. Ignore them.

So if a virus is not declared a pandemic by WHO then it is ok to refer the to the virus to the place it originates from?

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The bolded bit isn't a very nice thing to say.