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Trump Has A Path To Victory. It's Voter Suppression.
This article discusses a whole suite of dirty tricks, A sample, bold by me:
100,000 voters in 2016, lost their vote for postage due. Trump won by 77,000.
So there's:
gerrymandering
closing polling stations
New ID laws
Special IDs for students
demanding ballots are notarized
multiple witnesses (during coronavirus)
purging rolls and 'de-registering'
'challenging' ballots (the actual voter fraud)
selectively refusing absentee ballots
slowing the postal service
And of course the war on mail-in. You mail in your registration, you do your drivers licence by mail, the treasury mailed everyone a $1,200 check; the president and half his cabinet and family and half a dozen entire states vote by mail. But suddenly that's not 'safe' to do anymore.
Suppressing the vote was instrumental in 2016. There were other things: misinformation, a poorly run Clinton campaign, Vladimir Putin, sure. But this time Trump is so far behind that suppression has to be ramped up on several fronts to make up the difference.
This article discusses a whole suite of dirty tricks, A sample, bold by me:
The problem with mail-in voting is not fraudulent votes from Bolivia. You don’t get ballots from Bolivia. You don’t get people in a basement filling out 700 ballots. It’s easy to catch those guys. Some people tried it a couple times, they get nailed, you go to jail for five years. It doesn’t happen. It’s been studied to death.
One in 10 voters who asked for a mail-in ballot and never get them. One in 10 ballots that are mailed in, are never counted. They’re rejected, they’re challenged and the vote doesn’t get counted. They get challenged for goofy things. They didn’t properly fill in a bubble. They didn’t like your signature. Postage due is a big one. If you put one stamp on it, you just lost your vote, you need two. It doesn’t say that, but you better put on the second stamp. 100,000 voters in '16, lost their vote for postage due.
100,000 voters in 2016, lost their vote for postage due. Trump won by 77,000.
So there's:
gerrymandering
closing polling stations
New ID laws
Special IDs for students
demanding ballots are notarized
multiple witnesses (during coronavirus)
purging rolls and 'de-registering'
'challenging' ballots (the actual voter fraud)
selectively refusing absentee ballots
slowing the postal service
And of course the war on mail-in. You mail in your registration, you do your drivers licence by mail, the treasury mailed everyone a $1,200 check; the president and half his cabinet and family and half a dozen entire states vote by mail. But suddenly that's not 'safe' to do anymore.
Suppressing the vote was instrumental in 2016. There were other things: misinformation, a poorly run Clinton campaign, Vladimir Putin, sure. But this time Trump is so far behind that suppression has to be ramped up on several fronts to make up the difference.