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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#24148224)
Ballot box stuffing has occurred numerous times in American History. Even ids are not a panacea.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fake-id-seizures-on-the-rise-m...

Plato's critique of a Democracy is it's the son of Oligarchy & degenerates into Tyranny...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:29PM (#24148468)
Regarding absentee ballots, all 50 states combined yielded 143 fraud convictions over 20 years. Those numbers are so low that there's not any way to massage them into an actual risk to elections.

Source Heritage Foundation https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:33PM (#24148563)
Absentee ballots != mail in ballots
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by donarb on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:40PM (#24148706)
Oregon has distributed 100 million ballots over the past 20 years in its vote by mail system. In that time there have been just 12 cases of voter fraud.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:46PM (#24151322)
According to organized crime syndicates, there is almost no organized crime.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by JadeNB on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:45PM (#24150563)
Pretty much, absentee ballots = mail-in ballots.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trumps-absentee-vs-mail-in...

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:48PM (#24151349)
Like most Rockefeller & Gates sponsored rags, factcheck.org's post is muddying the waters with opinion, circular & contradictory reasoning, & deceptive headlines. This piece you sent me were mainly partisan opinions of the same people who advocate for mail in ballots, masquerading as some voice of authority that the audience is supposed to obey by fiat. There was no discussion, other than a sentence of an opinion, about the process.

Unlike the article above I posted, there are no links to source documents of procedures or any source data other than partisan opinions.

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by WarOnPrivacy on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#24163966)
Dude. This isn't complicated. We call them mail-in ballots and absentee ballots, interchangeably. Absentee is an older term and may be falling out of use.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:46PM (#24148806)
It is in Florida. Fill out the ballot and mail it in.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by flaque on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:27PM (#24148425)
The epoch times is a propaganda site and shouldn't be used as a legitimate source.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:31PM (#24148528)
I have the feeling that any site that reports against your narrative will be deemed "a propaganda site and shouldn't be used as a legitimate source". Good luck speaking to your echo chamber. At least I can see what your what your ideological opponents are focused on. The silence of some news organizations re: the seizure of these fake ids is deafening, btw...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/authorities-seize-thousands-of-fa...

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by flaque on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:35PM (#24148607)
No, this isn't a ideology thing, the epoch times is literally the news paper of the Falun Gong religious movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times It's not "secretly" propaganda, it's explicitly and openly a propaganda site.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:39PM (#24151238)
Yes, this article, unlike many of the news sources you probably use, links to it's original sources. Your ideological point re: Falun Gong is irrelevant.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-louisvi...

https://twitter.com/CBPChicago/status/1291057732825513984

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by conqueso on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:21AM (#24178051)
Fallacies in this post: 1) Ad hominem on parent 2) Cherry Picking - linking to original sources does not mean something is not propaganda
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by nawgz on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:24PM (#24148370)
Paywall'd right-wing source was the best you could do?
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by briantakita on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:36PM (#24148619)
Ad hominem is the best you can do? No paywall btw. Just submit an email address.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by nawgz on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:15PM (#24149317)
No, I could do much better than ad hominem, but why bother? You pointed out a vanishingly small type of crime against mail-in ballots - with no numbers about how much crime occurs against real "voting booths", at that - and that was supposed to justify an intentional dismantling of a constitutionally guaranteed service for political gain by one party. This is clearly disingenuous on the face of it, and if it's not, and you really believe what you're saying, that's even worse and equally unlikely to have you yield from your position.