I have been writing Postcards to Voters since 2020. The message is always vote early. Here in California, every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot and that’s 22,114,456 voters. That’s 22 million plus who don’t have to take a day off, don’t have to worry about the weather. You can sit at your dining room table and read all of the election material and make your decisions in your pajamas. It is a great thing for everyone, including the Republicans in this state; 47% are democrats and 24% are Republicans and 23% are independents. So it works here and can work everywhere else.
The man cannot recite a consistent message because he is descending into dementia, which should be obvious to everyone listening to his campaign rants...no MD in Neurology needed.
As a resident of a virtually fraud-free state that has had mail in voting for donkey's years, I looked deeply into the security provisions governing that method. Without getting into details, I concluded that mail in voting with such security measures is way safer than in person voter, even with ID. ID is easy to fake--ask any teenager in search of booze. Signatures are much harder to change. I have from checks I wrote in the 60s. Same signature as today. And anyone who forges with any chance of success has to have an exemplar to copy from. That kind of precludes massive misuse.
You would think that rather than trying to pass laws to make mail in voting harder, the GOP would be passing laws to make it safer.
I believe Trump is veering off message from what the Republicans want because he knows he is going to lose.
If you know you are going to lose, and you are a narcissist who cannot bear losing, you start the drum beat about how the odds are stacked against you.
Trump trashed mail-in voting precisely because there is a delay in counting absentee votes, so when things switched up and Democrats won, he could claim 'rigged'. It wasn't an accident that he started up with 'mail-in voting is bad' once again. It's part of his plan. It was part of his plan in 2020. Trump was discussing it with his minions BEFORE Nov 8 as an option. They designed the story early on as Plan B, something to fall back on when he lost.
In short, there is no way, especially as his problems mount, that Trump will ever stick to the message to get votes in early. It flies directly in the face of his real plan: to launch Insurrection 2.0. Except, now that I think about it, Mike Johnson and his Christian cadre are Insurrection 2.0 in the House, and Roberts and his SCOTUS are Insurrection 3.0. Now we're onwards and downwards to Insurrection Version 4.0.
I don't think Trump deliberately goes back and forth on early/mail-in voting. He just doesn't remember the latest advice. It's called cognitive decline. In addition, he has always gone with his instinct on issues. It makes him sound decisive, but often isn't based on facts or decent reasoning, e.g., "global warming is fake news"; "it [COVID] is like a mild flu. It will just go away", and drinking Lysol will kill it. The kings of yore got away with their arrogance/instincts, too. That's why we find many incongruities in history. Their subjects would never dare to challenge them. Sound familiar?
We use the no-brainier mail-in ballot process here in California.
Easy-peasy and a "best practice" method overall too. Makes me feel sorry for others in those stone-age States that torture their electorate with cumbersome and oppression procedures.
Thank you. I didn’t realize they’re championing mail in on one side of there mouth while claiming mail in fraud out the other side. lol. Leave to the GOP to louse up even the simplest of concepts.
The blizzard on Election Day is a good illustration for both early voting and moving Election Day earlier. According to my mother-I -law, in Sweden it is in September partly because certain parts of the country can have severe winter weather late into the spring and early in the fall. Early voting is easy too. And there are public services that will pick up the elderly or disabled and take them to the polling place. It’s interesting though, across the political spectrum here no one truly understands why ID is a hot button issue in the United States. It’s been required in Sweden for decades to vote. Another thing I like about it here is that prior to my gaining Swedish citizenship, I could vote in the local elections, but not the federal. I’m sure that idea would make MAGA heads explode!😉
If you are an expat, you can sign up for Democrats Abroad and they will help you make sure your vote counts. https://www.democratsabroad.org/
I am voting from Germany, and my state, which is one that tries to make it easier to vote, has sent me a ballot that I can email in. There is also the Global Presidential Primary where one can vote in person just for the President in many countries. This helps Americans Abroad to get delegates which can represent issues for Americans Abroad, of which I have been told there are about 1 million, such as double taxation.
[And Republicans still haven’t figured out how to undo the damage that sowing mistrust in the underlying system has inflicted upon their turnout numbers.]
*If the 2024 election is a repeat of 2020 when it comes to mail-in balloting, that could give Democrats a winning boost in what are expected to be tight races, especially in the crucial battleground states.*
If Republicans can't prevent election fraud, despite being told repeatedly that there is going to be fraud, just how poor is their organisational skills that they can't prevent it?
I have been writing Postcards to Voters since 2020. The message is always vote early. Here in California, every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot and that’s 22,114,456 voters. That’s 22 million plus who don’t have to take a day off, don’t have to worry about the weather. You can sit at your dining room table and read all of the election material and make your decisions in your pajamas. It is a great thing for everyone, including the Republicans in this state; 47% are democrats and 24% are Republicans and 23% are independents. So it works here and can work everywhere else.
Con man trick. Heads I win. Tails you lose.
2016: "The election will be rigged."
2020: "The election will be rigged."
2024: "The election will be rigged."
Trump to Alyssa Farah, Communications Director in his WH: "It doesn't matter what you say. Just repeat it and they will believe you."
Oooh, are the Republicans running out of ways to win dishonestly? Since they don't know any other way?
The desperate amoral un- nornal minority that sows distrust in all norms can be defeated by the normal trusting in the norms.
The man cannot recite a consistent message because he is descending into dementia, which should be obvious to everyone listening to his campaign rants...no MD in Neurology needed.
As a resident of a virtually fraud-free state that has had mail in voting for donkey's years, I looked deeply into the security provisions governing that method. Without getting into details, I concluded that mail in voting with such security measures is way safer than in person voter, even with ID. ID is easy to fake--ask any teenager in search of booze. Signatures are much harder to change. I have from checks I wrote in the 60s. Same signature as today. And anyone who forges with any chance of success has to have an exemplar to copy from. That kind of precludes massive misuse.
You would think that rather than trying to pass laws to make mail in voting harder, the GOP would be passing laws to make it safer.
I believe Trump is veering off message from what the Republicans want because he knows he is going to lose.
If you know you are going to lose, and you are a narcissist who cannot bear losing, you start the drum beat about how the odds are stacked against you.
Trump trashed mail-in voting precisely because there is a delay in counting absentee votes, so when things switched up and Democrats won, he could claim 'rigged'. It wasn't an accident that he started up with 'mail-in voting is bad' once again. It's part of his plan. It was part of his plan in 2020. Trump was discussing it with his minions BEFORE Nov 8 as an option. They designed the story early on as Plan B, something to fall back on when he lost.
In short, there is no way, especially as his problems mount, that Trump will ever stick to the message to get votes in early. It flies directly in the face of his real plan: to launch Insurrection 2.0. Except, now that I think about it, Mike Johnson and his Christian cadre are Insurrection 2.0 in the House, and Roberts and his SCOTUS are Insurrection 3.0. Now we're onwards and downwards to Insurrection Version 4.0.
I don't think Trump deliberately goes back and forth on early/mail-in voting. He just doesn't remember the latest advice. It's called cognitive decline. In addition, he has always gone with his instinct on issues. It makes him sound decisive, but often isn't based on facts or decent reasoning, e.g., "global warming is fake news"; "it [COVID] is like a mild flu. It will just go away", and drinking Lysol will kill it. The kings of yore got away with their arrogance/instincts, too. That's why we find many incongruities in history. Their subjects would never dare to challenge them. Sound familiar?
We use the no-brainier mail-in ballot process here in California.
Easy-peasy and a "best practice" method overall too. Makes me feel sorry for others in those stone-age States that torture their electorate with cumbersome and oppression procedures.
Thank you. I didn’t realize they’re championing mail in on one side of there mouth while claiming mail in fraud out the other side. lol. Leave to the GOP to louse up even the simplest of concepts.
The blizzard on Election Day is a good illustration for both early voting and moving Election Day earlier. According to my mother-I -law, in Sweden it is in September partly because certain parts of the country can have severe winter weather late into the spring and early in the fall. Early voting is easy too. And there are public services that will pick up the elderly or disabled and take them to the polling place. It’s interesting though, across the political spectrum here no one truly understands why ID is a hot button issue in the United States. It’s been required in Sweden for decades to vote. Another thing I like about it here is that prior to my gaining Swedish citizenship, I could vote in the local elections, but not the federal. I’m sure that idea would make MAGA heads explode!😉
If you are an expat, you can sign up for Democrats Abroad and they will help you make sure your vote counts. https://www.democratsabroad.org/
I am voting from Germany, and my state, which is one that tries to make it easier to vote, has sent me a ballot that I can email in. There is also the Global Presidential Primary where one can vote in person just for the President in many countries. This helps Americans Abroad to get delegates which can represent issues for Americans Abroad, of which I have been told there are about 1 million, such as double taxation.
Let's hope this continues.
[And Republicans still haven’t figured out how to undo the damage that sowing mistrust in the underlying system has inflicted upon their turnout numbers.]
*If the 2024 election is a repeat of 2020 when it comes to mail-in balloting, that could give Democrats a winning boost in what are expected to be tight races, especially in the crucial battleground states.*
If Republicans can't prevent election fraud, despite being told repeatedly that there is going to be fraud, just how poor is their organisational skills that they can't prevent it?
The stupid is SO STRONG with the GQP. It's amusing to see them prove this once again . . .
Why the confusion? Obviously mail-in voting is safe and secure if Trump wins, and it’s not if he doesn’t. Simple! 🤷♀️