I wonder if some of these people who are questioning the validity of the voting process, like in registering to vote, can even remember how they got registered to vote?
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Here’s an unrelated fun fact.
“Forty” is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order : - )
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Des Moines also too.
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Two of the ways mail-in ballots are verified are by signature that is compared to one on file plus exacting ways ballots are folded and placed in the proper envelope. I’m in Pima county, south of Maricopa. I’ll be taking my ballot myself to our County Recorder’s office. I don’t trust the mail as mail gets trucked from Tucson to Phoenix to get sorted and trucked back which is a 250 mile round trip. I live less than 2 miles from the Recorder’s office.
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People who buy off on conspiracy jive tend to retain those nuggets of disinformation rather than admit to themselves that they were taken in. And all it takes is an occasional whif of the conspiracy to fully refresh the false memory.
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In CO we have a notification system you can sign up for called Ballot Trax. I get an email when the county mails out the ballots. When I return the ballot via the drop box, I get an email saying they have received the ballot, and also when the ballot has been counted. Easy peasy. I moved here from MN some years back and have found the CO system even better than MN, which is very good as well.
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You’re missing Oklahoma City and Santa Fe.
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Our polling centers are open 8 days before a Primary election and 15 days before a General Election during regular business hours. On Election Days, they are open 7 am to 7 pm. And you can register on election day.
We were talking recently to a couple who had just moved to Colorado from Texas. They said CO does everything it can to get people to vote, TX does everything it can keep people from voting.
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Minus forty is also where Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures coincide.
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I will be able to watch the ballot counting as the recorder’ office has a web cam in the room and a site address to watch the proceedings which one can do if it is desired to be bored.
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Sadly, the enhanced security and fortress-like appearance of the tabulating center(s) can easily be spun as proof that they’re keeping you out so you don’t know what they’re doing! Which means … CHEATING!
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I’m still startled when I encounter any of the “Election Day should be the only day to vote!” crowd. They seem to believe voting doesn’t count unless it involves needless annoyance and even suffering.
These people are almost always white, upper-middle-class, and oblivious to the needs of those who may not have a car or a nice, tidy “8 to 5” job. Even if Election Day were a national holiday, that doesn’t take care of soldiers or those who are home-bound.
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You absolutely know it’s just a matter of time before those fences and the rest of those security measures will themselves become “evidence” of stolen elections thanks to the very people who made it necessary to install them in the first place.
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I remember doing this occasionally during the Al Franken recount in MN years back. The MN SOS handled that really well.
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Or they think voting is easy because they live 5 minutes from their precinct or voting center.
Imagine the mayhem that would result if the requirement was every voter should live no more than 5 minutes from a precinct or voting center.
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Although, incidentally, mail in ballots are the easiest way to commit fraud. Also, depending on how the ballot instructions are written, a voter’s ballot can be rejected without their knowing, or finding out too late to do anything about it, or the remedy being too onerous for them to even try.
“Signature verification”? Seriously? Has your signature remained identical in the 50 years since you first registered? And who’s qualified to judge?
As far as there’s never been any fraud in the states that are totally vote by mail! assertion, has anyone actually looked? And how extensively? Sure, you get the highest levels of participation… but by whom? The voterrs, or perhaps the apartment manager?
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The fences and security are to hide the pizza parlor in the basement. The holding cells are still in the abandoned Wal-Marts.
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Our recent school board meeting had a group who showed up to complain about “pornographic” books in the HS libraries. Two were a former teacher and a parent. One of them was a “preacher, author, and activist” from NC, who insisted on reading part of his book:
Amanchukwu finished reading the [book] excerpt and then said any of the six men on the MISD school board who don’t push for the book to be taken out of the library are either “punks or perverts.” After repeating that message a few times, MISD police were asked to escort Amanchukwu from the meeting.
This guy travels around the country, talking about Bad Books (Trouble! With a capital T!) for a living. It hasn’t been reported that any of these so-called Men of God tried to talk to the press about the hungry or homeless.
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Good point.
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Indeed. This happend in New Mexico during when “Couy” Griffin, lead Cowboy for Trump and convicted insurrectionist, was on the board of Catron County. He refused to certify, and a few other members went along … until they were informed what the prison sentences for dereliction of duty would be. Then “Coupie” resigned and the half-dozen votes from Catron were added into the state’s totals.
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