Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:21PM (#24148297)

Florida introduced absentee ballots just after the 2000 election. Since then it's been extensively used by deployed military along with anyone else who wants it. Dozens of general and primary elections later, we can see it didn't put those elections at risk.

As a side note, effectively crippling mail-in voting would prohibit many FL elderly (mostly R) from voting.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by jacobwilliamroy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:22PM (#24148338)

The executive branch is obviously trying to get in our heads and create as much chaos and turmoil as humanly possible. Possibly with funding from other nations. We're being CIA'd right now.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by DlSGUSTING on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:41PM (#24151258)

absentee ballots are different to the mass mail-in ones. Trump said he supports absentee ballots because they have to be requested

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by auganov on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:32PM (#24148555)

President Trump has explicitly said he's okay with the system in Florida.

Universal mail-in voting is different in that every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot without even requesting one.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by pwinnski on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:35PM (#24148600)

He's said he's okay with Florida because of Florida's Republican governor. That's not my because, it's his.

Also, he votes by mail-in ballot to Florida.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by jki275 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:06PM (#24149165)

Absentee ballots are very different from the systems states are putting in place to mail ballots to everyone.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by syshum on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:26PM (#24148404)

Absentee ballots making up a small part of the total vote count is alot different than the majority of voting taking place via mail in on my levels not just security but logistics, and several other factors

It would be one thing if it rolled out with a defined planned over the course of a few years. it is something else when it is an emergency measure rolled out with no plan in an ad hoc manner

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:37PM (#24148637)

FL's extensive and lengthy trial of absentee voting was a success from every angle. The thing one does after completing a wildly successful trial is to roll out the actual program in the manner and degree that it's needed.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by syshum on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:40AM (#24156206)

The miami herald seems to disagree that is was a "success from every angle"

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article224873455.htm...

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