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Why Are Democrats So Eager For Mail-In Voting?

Why are Democrats So Eager for Mail-In Voting?

  • They are authentically concerned about COVID

    Votes: 39 44.8%

  • They are authentically concerned about minority voters being disenfranchised

    Votes: 11 12.6%

  • They plan to cheat

    Votes: 27 31.0%

  • They plan to coerce family members, employees, etc. into voting for Biden

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • They think that unenthusiastic voters are more likely to vote Biden by mail

    Votes: 8 9.2%
  • Total voters
    87
ReubenSherr said:
Why are Democrats so eager for mail-in voting?
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Don't know ask trump, he is now for it in some states like Florida, my, my, my how things change in a week....:lamo
 
Tahuyaman said:
What's the percentage of our population which is at a significant degree of risk? 1%? 1.5%?
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Obviously trump thinks a lot of people in Florida are at risk. You need to get with the program, or didn't you get your updated plan yet, stupid mail system....
 
ReubenSherr said:
Why are Democrats so eager for mail-in voting?
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I have always been eager for the expansion of voting opportunities for all eligible electors; longer early voting periods, no excuse absentee voting, open vote by mail, and a national federal voting holiday (but only paid if you turn in your ballot receipt to your employer to prove you voted).

I was eager for those things even for the 42 years I was a registered Republican. Guess that was another reason why some Right Wingers would call me a "Libtard"?

But I am with Donny on this.

“Absentee ballots are great because absentee ballots you have to go through a process to get ’em. It’s actually a great thing, absentee ballots. I’m going to be voting absentee." ~ President Donald J Trump

Absentee ballots aka voting by mail are a great thing, and the vetting process for eligible electors requesting absentee ballots is the same for electors asking for universal mail in ballots. Donny doesn't quite understand that nuance, but he is right that mailing in your ballot is a great thing!

All these people demanding or those asking for universal mail in balloting should just start using the following terminology "No Excuse Universal Absentee Balloting".

Then our ersatz president would be tickled with it, he'd be smiling and emulating Martha, "It's a good thing!"

But my question is why aren't some Republicans eager for mail in voting? Why does the idea seem to scare the crap out of some of them? Why does anything that expands the voting franchise for legal eligible electors seem to freak out so many Republicans? Those are things I have never understood about many Republicans?

How can one or any call themselves Patriots yet want to have legal eligible elector suppression? Isn't everyone getting the opportunity to vote who is legally eligible to vote an exercise of their Constitutional right?
 
LouC said:
I have always been eager for the expansion of voting opportunities for all eligible electors; longer early voting periods, no excuse absentee voting, open vote by mail, and a national federal voting holiday (but only paid if you turn in your ballot receipt to your employer to prove you voted).

I was eager for those things even for the 42 years I was a registered Republican. Guess that was another reason why some Right Wingers would call me a "Libtard"?

But I am with Donny on this.

“Absentee ballots are great because absentee ballots you have to go through a process to get ’em. It’s actually a great thing, absentee ballots. I’m going to be voting absentee." ~ President Donald J Trump

Absentee ballots aka voting by mail are a great thing, and the vetting process for eligible electors requesting absentee ballots is the same for electors asking for universal mail in ballots. Donny doesn't quite understand that nuance, but he is right that mailing in your ballot is a great thing!

All these people demanding or those asking for universal mail in balloting should just start using the following terminology "No Excuse Universal Absentee Balloting".

Then our ersatz president would be tickled with it, he'd be smiling and emulating Martha, "It's a good thing!"

But my question is why aren't some Republicans eager for mail in voting? Why does the idea seem to scare the crap out of some of them? Why does anything that expands the voting franchise for legal eligible electors seem to freak out so many Republicans? Those are things I have never understood about many Republicans?

How can one or any call themselves Patriots yet want to have legal eligible elector suppression? Isn't everyone getting the opportunity to vote who is legally eligible to vote an exercise of their Constitutional right?
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Thanks for the detailed response lol.

Mail in voting itself doesn’t bother me as much, early voting before Biden has had a chance to appear on a debate stage does, but I’ll throw it all back in your hands...
 
ReubenSherr said:
Thanks for the detailed response lol.

Mail in voting itself doesn’t bother me as much, early voting before Biden has had a chance to appear on a debate stage does, but I’ll throw it all back in your hands...
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Debates are irrelevant.

Tell me one time when what was spoken in a one on one presidential debate, by the eventual winner of the election, that was transformed into anything beneficial to all Americans, while being Constitutional at the same time, and of course that the speaker in the debate who won the election was able to get both houses of Congress to fully support and thus pass so it could become law?

If you haven't made up your mind when early voting begins then don't early vote.

It is that simple, especially since those ballots cast early won't actually be counted until election day.

In the meantime don't deny those of us who don't need useless debate soundbites, to make up our minds, the opportunity to vote early.

I have made up my mind. I don't need any stinking BS media stroking soundbite gotcha so called debates.

I will vote early, most likely by mail in ballot, like Trump.

Even if my candidate were to die on November 2nd, I would not want to change my vote on November 3rd.

Debates might have been useful in bygone days before mass media and massive amounts of data was on hand that already lets us know who and what the candidates are all about.

Both of these men have records that many of us have watched unfold all of our lives.

I would love anyone to tell me, Trump and Clinton debated, does anyone think America won any of those debates?

If America didn't win, then what was the point?

I don't need Joe Biden to appear on a debate stage to already know he is infinitely better as a candidate for the presidency and will be a better President than Donald Trump ever has been and could ever be.
 
ReubenSherr said:
Thanks for the detailed response lol.

Mail in voting itself doesn’t bother me as much, early voting before Biden has had a chance to appear on a debate stage does, but I’ll throw it all back in your hands...
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The Vast Majority of Americans already know who they are voting for, I know, You know, there aren't more than a handful of voters here that don't know.

No debates are going to save trump, heck they may do more harm to him than good.
 
Trump sows confusion with tweet urging 'vote by mail' in Florida - Reuters

“Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida’s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail! #MAGA,” Trump wrote.

Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington already conduct their elections entirely by mail, while California and Vermont have decided to do so this year due to the pandemic.
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Evidence of two things: Trump is mischaracterizing mail-in voting and mail-in voting en masse still works.
 
ReubenSherr said:
I'd like to see if Democrats now start shying away from mail-in voting now that Trump, apparently, is behind it. ;) Interesting political move.
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I doubt we'll see a lot of that.

They know it will help them in the election - especially swing districts and 'purple' states. They also know that it has always worked for Republicans in their strongholds and it didn't stop them from supporting it last week.
 
ReubenSherr said:
I really don't think this is true. The vast majority of DP Posters already know who they are voting for.
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Are you saying the "vast majority" of 65,844,954 voters who voted against Donald Trump November 8th in 2016 and the vast majority of the 62,979,879 voters who voted for Donald Trump in November 2016 are, so far, clueless who they will vote for come November 3rd?

Seriously?

:lamo
 
LouC said:
Are you saying the "vast majority" of 65,844,954 voters who voted against Donald Trump November 8th in 2016 and the vast majority of the 62,979,879 voters who voted for Donald Trump in November 2016 are, so far, clueless who they will vote for come November 3rd?
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Are you implying the results on November 3 will be identical to the results four years ago?

Lol I wouldn't mind that, I'm with you all the way. ;)
 
ReubenSherr said:
Are you implying the results on November 3 will be identical to the results four years ago?

Lol I wouldn't mind that, I'm with you all the way. ;)
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Of course you would be.

But that is not what I said.

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uptower said:
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There is more truth to that cartoon than there is anything else.

I keep suggesting those folks calling for universal mail in balloting need to just officially call it "Universal Absentee Balloting" and that would take the wind out of the ersatz president's sails on his inane and insane notions that there is any real difference between mailing in an absentee ballot as opposed to mailing in a universal mail in ballot.
 
ReubenSherr said:
I'd like to see if Democrats now start shying away from mail-in voting now that Trump, apparently, is behind it. ;) Interesting political move.
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But Trump isn't behind universal mail in voting. He is only behind absentee mail in balloting. Florida does not have "universal mail in balloting".

This Democrat is behind the expansion of mail in balloting regardless what ersatz president Donny Dip Stick wants or likes.

What is truly interesting is your silly notions of what motivates Democrats and that you think Donny's further muddying of the election waters with his truly idiotic parsing about mail in balloting and how it is OK in Florida but not in the other 49 States. That is what is interesting. It was not some slick political move by Trump. It was just another stupid and transparent attempt by him to try and rescue, failingly, some sensibility out of his purely insensible ramblings about voting by mail.

The man, once more, before sane, rational, scientifically and politically well informed electors added to the already towering stack of evidence that he is totally unfit to be president.

It was another asinine political move, in a long line of such asinine political moves.

It is blatantly apparent that ersatz president Trump STILL has no clue how our election systems work and that he still has no clue how voting by mail works across the nation, whether it is via excuse absentee balloting or no excuse absentee balloting, or just non absentee voting by mail.

He has no freaking clue, or knows but is in total denial, that the systems in place in Florida to protect absentee balloting are very similar and some identical to the systems in place ALL ACROSS THE NATION for protecting mail in voting.

The man is a fool, truly he is, and those following him are foolish for doing so.

:2wave:
 
ReubenSherr said:
I’m glad you brought this up. Federal Law established the first Tuesday in November as Election Day.

Just because Democrats want voters to be able to cast their votes early, doesn’t automatically repeal the law or make it go off the books.
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Please , not the old distraction trick, the Right Wingers aren't using that anymore it stop working right after Trump madethis statement "if elected I will turn over my tax returns", oh look the media saying fake news.

You as well as I know that not every American is going to cast every ballot on the 1st Tuesday in November some will either be early or late. that is fact.

As far as Democrats or others voting early when Trump voted in Florida by mail in vote was that early or late or exactly the same day????
After that you can answer for his administration and both the House and Senate remember as you say, votes must be cast the first Tuesday in November exactly..
I hardly think that the Federal Law established the 1st Tuesday in November as Election day did not leave some room for voting early for Military personal overseas using the mail in vote. or politicians working in D.C to use mail in voting as well as early voting..:peace
 
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