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Delay November Election?

Rexedgar

Rexedgar

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Just when it can’t get a crazier.........




Mods pls merge, I see someone beat me to it........TIA
 
LOL... he's planting the seed cuz he knows he's going down! Wait until the cultists see this...
 
Casper said:
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Well, he can certainly throw a grenade into the election by blowing up the USPS, but no, he can’t delay the date of the election itself.

Of course, in his mind, doing the former effectively accomplishes the latter.
 
Cardinal said:
Well, he can certainly throw a grenade into the election by blowing up the USPS, but no, he can’t delay the date of the election itself.

Of course, in his mind, doing the former effectively accomplishes the latter.
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We'll see, I doubt he will be able to shut down the USPS, especially by November. Besides one can still send in an absentee ballot without USPS.
 
Move it up! We can't wait six months for leadership on our economic and public health crises.
 
Rexedgar said:
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Just when it can’t get a crazier.........




Mods pls merge, I see someone beat me to it........TIA
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GIANT SQUIRREL.

Economy shrank by 9.5% in the last quarter. Worst in history. Look over hear at another idiot outrageous norm breaking bull**** tweet instead. Covering this means less coverage of that. A tactic he uses almost every day because it is so effective.
 
The President can’t delay the election. Congress can. Neither can change the end date of the President’s and Vice President’s terms. If there isn’t a winner of the general election to be sworn in on that date under the Presidential Succession Act Nancy Pelosi becomes President.

Is that really what the orange buffoon wants?
 
:lamoCue Trumpers labeling The Federalist Society COMMUNISTS AND TERRORISTS in 3-2-1...
Oh yeah, Federalists are probably now friends with Antifa, too!

Arch conservative and Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi has written extensively about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe being unconstitutional, but when it came to President Donald Trump’s tweets Thursday, the game was over.

In an op-ed for the New York Times Thursday, Calabresi said that the president’s idea to delay the election is fascist and that he must be impeached immediately.
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I can hear it now!! BwaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the Federalists are all Demoncrat communists and they deserve to be shot by Trump and Barr's private army!!
You know that we're gonna hear this, I'm just cueing it up before the needle drops on the rekkid! :lamo

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You all can get your panties up in a bunch over this, but it simply isn't going to happen.

The US has never 'missed' or delayed an election yet, and it isn't about to start now. (Paraphrased from Mitch McConnell) - And he's right about that.
 
eohrnberger said:
You all can get your panties up in a bunch over this, but it simply isn't going to happen.

The US has never 'missed' or delayed an election yet, and it isn't about to start now. (Paraphrased from Mitch McConnell) - And he's right about that.
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I don’t thing anyone here has their panties in a bunch because anyone with a brain knows it ain’t happening.

Fearless leader is a different story though
 
Gaius46 said:
I don’t thing anyone here has their panties in a bunch because anyone with a brain knows it ain’t happening.

Fearless leader is a different story though
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He's been known to troll the left though. Hard to gauge if he's serious or not. Knowing that he doesn't have the authority to do this pretty much tamps down any fears or concerns about it for me.
 
eohrnberger said:
He's been known to troll the left though. Hard to gauge if he's serious or not. Knowing that he doesn't have the authority to do this pretty much tamps down any fears or concerns about it for me.
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You don’t know if the guy you’re voting for is serious when he says he wants to delay the election?
 
Cardinal said:
You don’t know if the guy you’re voting for is serious when he says he wants to delay the election?
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Trumps doesn't have the authority nor power to delay a federal election. He simply doesn't.


What he is doing is drawn attention to the lousy record mail-in voting has, even worse than absentee ballots.

Local News Experiment With Mail-In Ballots Ends In Disaster: "I Just Don't Trust The Mail"
Posted By Ian Schwartz, On Date July 29, 2020
Local News Experiment With Mail-In Ballots Ends In Disaster: "I Just Don't Trust The Mail" | Video | RealClearPolitics

How long might it take for your mail-in ballot to actually arrive and be counted? CBS News decided to test it, sending 100 mock ballots simulating a hundred voters in locations all across Philadelphia to a post office box. After some delays, 97 arrived. In a close election, 3% could be pivotal, especially in what's expected to be a record year for mail-in-voting.
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Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead of November election
Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead of November election - CBS News

Mail-in voting, for many, is as simple as sending a letter, but rules vary across the country for when a voter can get their ballot and when it should be returned. In 2016, more than 73,000 out of 33 million mail-in ballots arrived too late to be counted.

Many Americans are expected to vote by mail for the first time in November 2020 because of coronavirus concerns, so "CBS This Morning" sent out 100 mock ballots, simulating 100 voters in locations across Philadelphia, in an experiment to see how long one should give themselves to make sure their vote counts.

"We're gonna see somewhere between probably 80 and 100 million voters receiving their ballot that way," former Arizona election official Tammy Patrick told "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil. Patrick is now a senior adviser for the elections program at Democracy Fund.

For the experiment, a P.O. box was set up to represent a local election office. A few days after the initial ballots were mailed, 100 more were sent.
The mock ballots used the same size envelope and same class of mail as real ballots, and even had mock votes folded in to approximate the weight. The biggest difference: real mail-in ballots have a logo that is meant to expedite them. "CBS This Morning" was unable to include those the trial.
A week after initial ballots were sent, most ballots appeared to be missing from the P.O. box.

"I don't see anything back there for you," a postal worker told Dokoupil when he received the mail. "That's all I have back there right now."

After asking for a manager and explaining the situation to them, the votes were found.

"They had them somewhere else," the postal worker said.

Then, another problem — missorted mail.

"We got a birthday card from Mike to Ronnie," Dokoupil said, as he read a postcard mistakenly placed in "CBS This Morning's" P.O. box. "Have a sweet b-day. Get it? There's a bee on top."

The postcard, along with another piece of missorted mail, was then sent to the correct recipient.

Out of the initial batch mailed a week earlier, 97 out of 100 votes had arrived. Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive. In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.

Four days after mailing the second batch of mock ballots, 21% of the votes hadn't arrived.

According to Postal Service recommendations, "voters should mail their return ballots at least one week prior to the due date."
However, nearly half of all states still allow voters to request ballots less than a week before the election.

Tammy Patrick said many states' mail-in voting policies simply do not take the postal system into account.

"So states like Ohio, you can request your ballot on Saturday up until noon for Tuesday's election," Patrick explained. "And that is the worst possible thing… you are setting up the voters with false expectations, and you're setting them up to fail."
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Thanks, but no thanks, I'll be voting in person.
 
eohrnberger said:
Trumps doesn't have the authority nor power to delay a federal election. He simply doesn't.



What he is doing is drawn attention to the lousy record mail-in voting has, even worse than absentee ballots.





Thanks, but no thanks, I'll be voting in person.
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I fully support Trump telling 65 and older voters not to trust mail-in voting.
 
Cardinal said:
I fully support Trump telling 65 and older voters not to trust mail-in voting.
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I fully support those who wish to vote to do so by absentee ballot or by voting in person (with social distancing, masks and other precautions as needed).

I'll be voting in person thanks.
 
eohrnberger said:
I fully support those who wish to vote to do so by absentee ballot or by voting in person (with social distancing, masks and other precautions as needed).

I'll be voting in person thanks.
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Absentee ballots instead of mail-in voting?
 
Cardinal said:
Absentee ballots instead of mail-in voting?
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Seems those 2 terms are being used interchangeably, but I think there's a procedural difference, absentee ballots probably already have been proven more accurate.
 
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