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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 11:52:12 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 18:37:26 GMT -5
Conservatives cited Bush V Gore. SMH.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Oct 19, 2020 19:50:40 GMT -5
Kathy spotted the long line of voters as she pulled into the Christian City Welcome Center about 3:30 p.m., ready to cast her ballot in the June 9 primary election. Hundreds of people were waiting in the heat and rain outside the lush, tree-lined complex in Union City, an Atlanta suburb with 22,400 residents, nearly 88% of them Black. She briefly considered not casting a ballot at all, but decided to stay. By the time she got inside more than five hours later, the polls had officially closed and the electronic scanners were shut down. Poll workers told her she’d have to cast a provisional ballot, but they promised that her vote would be counted. “I’m now angry again, I’m frustrated again, and now I have an added emotion, which is anxiety,” said Kathy, a human services worker, recalling her emotions at the time. She asked that her full name not be used because she fears repercussions from speaking out. “I’m wondering if my ballot is going to count.” By the time the last voter finally got inside the welcome center to cast a ballot, it was the next day, June 10. I have a ton of respect for those that, somehow, during a pandemic find a way to move everything else in their lives around in order to remain on those insane lines. May their patience be rewarded. The funny thing is, when I say, "May their patience be rewarded," not a one of us is questioning for whom 9/10 of those who have to wait so ridiculously long are voting. But, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 20, 2020 6:25:15 GMT -5
My mail in absentee ballot timeline. As warned by US Postal Service, two week turnaround for my mail in ballot to be accepted by the Board of Elections.
Mailed to non-DE address: 10/6 Recd at non-DE address: 10/13 Mailed to Bd of Elections:10/14 Recd at Bd of Elections: 10/19 Ballot Accepted: 10/20
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Post by prhoya on Oct 20, 2020 7:59:45 GMT -5
My mail in absentee ballot timeline. As warned by US Postal Service, two week turnaround for my mail in ballot to be accepted by the Board of Elections. Mailed to non-DE address: 10/6 Recd at non-DE address: 10/13 Mailed to Bd of Elections:10/14 Recd at Bd of Elections: 10/19 Ballot Accepted: 10/20 Home state?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 20, 2020 8:06:43 GMT -5
My mail in absentee ballot timeline. As warned by US Postal Service, two week turnaround for my mail in ballot to be accepted by the Board of Elections. Mailed to non-DE address: 10/6 Recd at non-DE address: 10/13 Mailed to Bd of Elections:10/14 Recd at Bd of Elections: 10/19 Ballot Accepted: 10/20 Home state? I am a Delaware voter but have a DC area apartment as well. I had the Bd. of Elections mail my absentee ballot to my DC area address in order to vote by mail. Delaware has an excellent ballot tracking tool and it confirms your signature by linking your ballot to your drivers license. I live in the only county that voted for Trump in 2016 (lower, slower Delaware, Sussex County). I will be trolling my Trump neighbors by putting out my Veterans for Biden/Harris sign when it arrives.
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 20, 2020 12:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 13:12:30 GMT -5
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 20, 2020 13:43:57 GMT -5
I just received word that my mail-in ballot was accepted and will be counted. Not really mail-in because it was dropped into one of the ballot boxes (and not one that the Rep in SoCal had put out).
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Post by flyoverhoya on Oct 20, 2020 16:17:19 GMT -5
Mine's been received, but is very likely one of several thousand with a printing error that will make it unreadable by the scanners at my polling place (my dumb state doesn't count absentee ballots until they are delivered to precincts on election day). The County is deciding whether to have poll workers manually copy the info to readable forms, or just color in a small, misprinted "timing mark" on the ballots so that they can be scanned.
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 20, 2020 19:08:40 GMT -5
Mine's been received, but is very likely one of several thousand with a printing error that will make it unreadable by the scanners at my polling place (my dumb state doesn't count absentee ballots until they are delivered to precincts on election day). The County is deciding whether to have poll workers manually copy the info to readable forms, or just color in a small, misprinted "timing mark" on the ballots so that they can be scanned. Damn that Antifa, trying to rig the election. It's the left, left, left!
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 21, 2020 3:36:45 GMT -5
Another loss for the corrupt Republican Party voter suppression effort. Why is the bankrupt GOP so afraid of voters actually voting and having their votes counted??? Is it because it realizes the more people vote, the less likely it is for Republicans to win?? “All ballots must still be mailed on or before Election Day,” according to the ruling. “The change is simply an extension from three to nine days after Election Day for a timely ballot to be received and counted. That is all. “North Carolina voters deserve clarity on whether they must rely on an overburdened Post Office to deliver their ballots within three days after Election Day,” the ruling continued. “The need for clarity has become even more urgent in the last week, as in-person early voting started in North Carolina on October 15 and will end on October 31.” “By a 12-3 margin, the Court rejects the Republican legislators’ effort to disallow votes cast & mailed back on or before Election Day but received after 11/6,” Stein wrote. “The ‘simple and commonsense change’ approved by the state court to extend the deadline 3 days to 9 days does not change voters’ obligations — all ballots must still be mailed on or before Election Day. But it recognizes the reality of an overburdened postal service.” www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article246597743.html
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 21, 2020 18:50:54 GMT -5
DNI and FBI Director presser tonight, Iran and Russia. DNI claims Iran sought to damage Trump which seems plausible. Active intel that Iran and Russia sought voter registration info and sent out false emails to intimidate voters but didn't specify what emails but likely used Proud Boys as a false flag operation. I trust Wray, Ratcliffe not so much. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/proud-boys-emails-florida/
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Post by TC on Oct 21, 2020 19:31:29 GMT -5
DNI and FBI Director presser tonight, Iran and Russia. DNI claims Iran sought to damage Trump which seems plausible. Active intel that Iran and Russia sought voter registration info and sent out false emails to intimidate voters but didn't specify what emails but likely used Proud Boys as a false flag operation. I trust Wray, Ratcliffe not so much. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/proud-boys-emails-florida/Nothing that they announced made any sort of sense, and it was backed with no specifics and no evidence.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2020 19:33:03 GMT -5
That doesn’t sound at all like a trump admin operation.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 21, 2020 20:14:16 GMT -5
It’s a shame that republicans are doing whatever they can to keep people from voting. Hard to imagine how anyone not desperate to keep unearned power can justify this.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2020 23:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2020 14:20:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2020 16:20:15 GMT -5
Amazing how one party is all in on trying to stop people from voting and/or invalidating their votes if they do.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 23, 2020 14:35:41 GMT -5
Another GOP voter suppression effort fails.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Friday that election officials cannot reject a mail ballot if the voter’s signature does not match the one on file with the government, a victory for Democrats and voting rights advocates who have argued that arbitrary application of such rules tends to disenfranchise voters from underrepresented groups.
The unanimous decision also stated that mail ballots will not be rejected because of “third-party challenges based on signature analysis and comparisons,” eliminating a way for politically motivated observers to challenge the validity of votes based on perceived signature mismatches.
“We conclude that the Election Code does not authorize or require county election boards to reject absentee or mail-in ballots during the canvassing process based on an analysis of a voter’s signature on the 'declaration’ contained on the official ballot return envelope for the absentee or mail-in ballot,” wrote Justice Debra Todd.
The judges concluded that had state lawmakers wanted election officials to use signature-matching to authenticate ballots, they would have outlined this requirement in statute.
President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee had intervened in the case to defend signature-matching in Pennsylvania, claiming in part that it was too late to alter the rules before Election Day. -- The Washington Post, 10/23/20
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