To undergird President Donald Trump’s Wednesday tweet storm about punishing states that expand voting by mail, the White House cited a report produced in 2005 by a commission co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter.
“The commission’s main recommendations on vote-by-mail and absentee voting were to increase research on vote-by-mail (and early voting) and to eliminate the practice of allowing candidates or party workers to pick up and deliver absentee ballots,” the Carter Center said in a statement.
Curses! Foiled by context again!
A Repiblican takes a statement out of context. I am shocked.
The only way the Republican Party stays in power is to disenfranchise as many people of color, students, poor, moderates, and the elderly as they can. When citizens’ voices are heard, the Republican lose.
I’ve been voting by mail since 1996 and have never heard of party officials picking up ballots for registered voters: Is this a Southern Tradition?
Why would a County Registrar’s office allow something like this? I will have to read this 2005 report to find out exactly how Carter & Baker came to this warning.
Seriously; as much as I bitch about living in California (50+ years) - I would be too afraid to live anywhere else.
If you do read it, you’ll be one step ahead of Team Trump.
It was in NC . . . until recently.
Oh yeah; I remember. Why does crazy S seem to happen in N & S Carolina?
You’re selling Florida(man) short…
Jimmy Carter, being an honorable man, never could have conceived of a political party deliberately stealing an election by abusing mail-in ballots. Jimmy Carter, being infinitely smarter than tRump, would know better today, because he has no reading comprehension problems, and likely can see the GOP for what it has become.
Vote by mail bad.
Vote by Putin good.
Though i should check to see if James Baker IV has anything on his father’s behalf, its somewhat interesting that his father is quiet about this.
Trumpholes love to stop short. They never bother to say that voter commission Carter was on recommended mail-in voting as long as certain security measures were in place.
I live in a state that’s going on it’s seventh year of mail-in voting with the recommended security measures.
Our voter participation rate is just under 60%.
Our rate of problem ballots is miniscule. I n the 2018 election it was 0.0027%
Vote-By-Mail is fraught with perils, some of which have already been mentioned here (North Carolina’s 9th says “Hi”). Voter coercion is also high on the list of perils. Not yet mentioned, first-class mail is craptacularly unreliable. I’ve lost count of bills sent by first-class mail that I’ve not received. Last week I received a Christmas card that was timely mailed last December. Appropriate postage; undamaged envelope; just the level of service I’ve come to expect from the USPS.
Verifiable voting that’s not vulnerable to coercion requires voting in person with human-readable paper ballots that are available for anyone to look at but that can’t be attributed to a specific voter. But near-term (“near-term” places social distancing concerns front and center), vote-by-mail may be a necessary alternative.
I understand y’all in the WH need to backfill every time he opens the gaping maw, but do you have to do it with manure?
I have a ballot box seven blocks from me. When I get my ballot in the mail, I walk over to the box and drop it in. No line, no problem.
Voter fraud was never even mentioned until the GOP started talking about it. It’s another weapon they are using against democracy and free and fair elections since they can’t win those.
Manure is preferable to what comes out of that festering hole. At least manure has fertilization qualities.
Well hi, I’m not going to say how i know, but the Post Office treats absentee ballots like they’re verified checks.
Worrying about voter fraud is like worrying about being struck by lightning. Sure, it happens but not in any organized, systematic, frequent way.
Based on experience, that’s a leap of faith.
