FWIW

[Jolly]

Mail-in ballots. Again.

https://virginiansforamericafirst.com/preliminary-report-on-absentee-ballot-concerns-in-the-2021-virginia-state-elections/

[George K]

@jolly didn't I read here that many other countries have mail-in ballots?

If that's the case, why are they not crumbling with voter fraud?

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in FWIW:

If that's the case, why are they not crumbling with voter fraud?

There have been concerns expressed in the UK. What the commentary seems to lack is the hysterical over-blown bullshit that currently seems to permeate pretty much everything associated with the US political system.

Of course, the British idea of demagoguery is maybe a little less extreme....

[Jolly]

I think we've had fraud with mail-in ballots for years. I know that England identified them as the voting process most subject to tampering. I know that multiple people in Dallas were caught following the USPS carrier and taking the ballots out of mail boxes a few years ago.

The Virginia stuff may be all smoke, but in a republic, we need no questions about the integrity of elections.

[Improviso]

@jolly said in FWIW:

following the USPS carrier and taking the ballots out of mail boxes a few years ago.

And there's no way to prove that those ballots were legal or not.

The left loves to say there was no wide spread voter fraud. Recounts confirm it and so do the courts. The problem with that is we're (the right) not saying the counts were wrong based on the ballots that were counted.

We're saying that some amount of mail-in ballots should not have been counted at all, due in part to ballot harvesting and other nefarious activity which can't be traced because there's currently no way to connect a ballot to a legitimate voter.

When I go to vote in person on election day, I have to provide an ID and they check me off the voter roll to confirm I voted and someone can't come in behind me claiming to be me and vote in my name.

I want the same type of validation that is required for in person voting to be applied to mail-in voting. I want to know that a mail-in ballot that was cast was from the actual person it was intended and I want a way to tie a mail-in ballot back to the individual who supposedly cast it, for purposes of auditing should the count be so close as to be contested.

We don't seem to have an issue with in-person early voting because I think the identity of the individual is confirmed before allowing them to vote.

[Jolly]

Look at nursing homes and mail-in ballots.

There's got to be a better way.

[Improviso]

@jolly said in FWIW:

There's got to be a better way.

You can bet your ass if democrats thought mail-in ballots gave repubs an advantage, they would be pissing all over themselves to clean it up.

Maybe I need to start following USPS carriers around and visiting nursing homes.

I also have a printer that can crank out 200 ballots...er...um... I mean pages a minute.