Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by dmode on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:29PM
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You could literally make the same argument about in person voting. How hard is it to get a fake id ? How about hacking ballot machines ? How about compromised ballot counters ? Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots, which really should be default in a 21st century democracy. Trump is arguing in bad faith
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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
by dingaling on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:11AM
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> Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots
It's not that weird. Mailed ballots can be coerced quite trivially at home, out of the view of authorities; no technology hacks or fake ID needed. That's why some of the "fact check" figures themselves are nonsense , such as the one claiming that only 0.00006% of mail votes are fraudulent. That's based on convictions. Nobody knows the real number.
In Northern Ireland postal voting is strictly controlled and monitored and permitted only in individually-reviewed case, because we had decades of coerced fraud by balaclaved men with baseball bats.