President Donald Trump’s war on voting by mail took another turn on Monday morning in the form of a new baseless conspiracy theory.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1316165
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1316165
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Yeah. Russia.
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Foreign countries, if you’re listening…
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Lets take a walk through this. If you counterfeit a ballot and submit it you must do so in the name of a registered voter. You also have to know that voter did not vote or you’ll end up in the system as a red flag. How can any foreign entity know all this? Try again Barr.
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This is what the “voter fraud” people never do: take just sixty seconds and think through the mechanics of how this fraud would operate. You quickly discover that pulling off enough vote fraud to affect an election would be logistically impossible. That, of course, is why it doesn’t happen.
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Well, here he goes again. So trump is outsourcing all ballot printing to China? What about made in the USA?
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OH FFS! In Washington, each envelope has discrete codes that match the voter. I foreign country couldn’t duplicate that.
Fuckers.
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The paper is made from pulp, some of which is from recycled cardboard shipped over to China and reprocessed there. Therefore ballots will come with WuhanFlu embedded into them, and must not be used.
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Wait, Wuhan flu? Is this the covid 17 or covid 18…don’t even tell me if the Kung flu is in paper.
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It is all fucking projection.
Trump has been told the Russians are helping him. Like with finally learning the line “I had nothing to do with doj” but using it at the wrong time… 
Trump is old and mentally addled, confused. He just heard about all of the Chinese, Russian, Saudi, and Israeli help he is getting, and assumed it involved printing ballots.
Perscale, Barr, and javanka will be pissed he is leaking again.
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Once again, Fat Nixon hanging bad paper.
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I’ve been saying for weeks that, after the election he loses, he and Barr will announce that all states that had mail-in voting are considered fraudulent, and must not be counted by the Electoral College. Doubt it will work, but that’s where this fraud angle is probably going.
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Next thing Barr will tell us is that there are too many polling places to insure against voter fraud and they will need to have only a few open strategically placed in the middle of Republican gerrymandered districts… They sure think their base is stupid if they believe we can do everything else by mail or even the internet, except vote.
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Knowing who is registered is the easy part. Knowing someone didn’t vote or intercepting their vote on any large scale without getting caught is much tougher.
There’s a reason that Republicans want people voting electronically and without paper documentation, the russkies can’t really hack that
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Why wouldn’t it work? SCOTUS decreed that Gore votes cease being tabulated.
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Speaking of fat Nixon. The iconic video of trump,alone, in the dark, disheveled, defeated and deflated, walking from the helicopter after Tulsa, is the Nixon gets on the helicopter film of our era.
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It’s hard to think of a more unwieldy way of committing voter fraud than by mail-in, or in-person voting. It’s also hard to think of why a state might not have access to local printing services, let alone the time frame for getting the ballots printed, shipped back to the USA, and mailed to voters in time for them to vote and return the ballot. But…and this is the part I haven’t figured out yet…if a state found this to be a feasible way to print the ballots, what would be wrong with it? I guess voter security could be compromised, depending on the design of the ballots, but that could happen with any computer system, especially the paperless ballot machines that the GOP loves so much.
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