Ohio’s Republican secretary of state has both publicly and privately praised the option of ballot drop boxes, and has claimed that he had only limited their use to one dropbox per county because he didn’t think authorizing any more would be legal.
How often can you say I’m for what I’m against unless that means I’m against what I’m for. And in any event I have to ask someone else, but then not agree what they say unless someone else agrees too. And I’m perfectly clear about this
Washington State has a dropbox next to every mailbox. Washington has been voting by mail since 2005; no fraud whatsoever.
Anything goes when you don’t have a problem with committing treason.
I wouldn’t be surprised if plans were afoot for boxes from “certain” neighborhoods to suddenly turn up at the bottom of a river election night. I trust these people no further than I could throw one of their dropboxes.
To put it simply, certain informal discussions took place, involving a full and frank exchange of views, out of which there arose a series of proposals which on examination proved to indicate certain promising lines of inquiry which when pursued led to the realization that the alternative courses of action might in fact, in certain circumstances, be susceptible to discreet modification, leading to a reappraisal of the original areas of difference and pointing the way to encouraging possibilities of compromise and cooperation which if bilaterally implemented with appropriate give and take on both sides might if the climate were right have a reasonable possibility at the end of the day of leading, rightly or wrongly, to a mutually satisfactory resolution.
(h/t Sir Humphrey Appleby)
The thing Republicans fear most: voters.
Ohio, the love child of Kentucky and West Virginia.
Anyone remember Ken Blackwell? Now there was real, professional asshole.
“I don’t have a problem with dropbox voting. That’s why I keep suing to stop it”.
If we have more ballot dropboxes … [scratches head, thinks deeply] … voters might drop off more ballots. It’s a trap!
Yes the Ohio Secretary of State who in 2004 changed the rules on provisional ballots essentially putting his thumb on the scale for Bush giving him the state and reelection.
When the NBA is more apt on voting rights by opening up arenas as polling locations than the Ohio Secretary of State we know that we have a problem.
The institutional Republicans in Ohio are just clever enough to pander to their oligarch masters using legalisms. That may be a thing of the past if the QAnon/Trumpist true believers infect the high-level positions soon. As it is, I’m very pleased to see some of them even within their own party crying foul - because the bottom line is, they thrive on disenfranchisement. They did it here election after election and they want to KEEP doing it - no postage paid, no extra drop boxes, no email/fax applications even after they’re told they can.
And Trump wonders why everyone wants to vote by mail:
I liked the comment about who will pay for all the funerals.
Do you think any of these poll workers ever wash their hands or use hand sanitizers after going to the bathroom? I can see them now coughing and sneezing all over the place to prove they have the right to kill people in Trump’s “herd mentality” GOP way.
That’s not exactly true. Most ballot drop boxes are located at libraries, government offices, park and ride lots, transit centers, and places that are easily accessible to pedestrians and/or vehicles. All votes in Washington state are cast by vote-by-mail and even the Republican Secretary of State says that fraud is very rare
“Next to every mailbox” is a bit overstated, but I’ve never had any problems. And if you can’t find a ballot drop box just stick it in the mail; if it’s postmarked on or before election day it gets counted.
Which is risky this year if you want it to get counted.
Not all mail gets postmarked, and the bulk mail type envelopes used for ballots are an example of a class of mail that is most likely not be postmarked, and with the De Joy reign of error with sudden changes in policy and procedure, postmarking may be disrupted beyond its normal state.
The people who write the voting laws, and required postmarks for ballot validity, likely did not understand the risks and limitations of making that requirement, and certainly assumed honesty and competence of the USPS that is not assured when fascists are in charge.
Laws should be changed to allow either receipt by election day (if not postmarked) or postmarked on election day (if received after) and Congress should pass legislation requiring postmarks on all ballot mail, as well as first class mail handling.
I know you think you understood what you thought I just said, however I don’t believe you realize that what you heard is not necessarily what I meant.
This is not true in Seattle. There are lots of drop boxes, and every election the county clerk highlights where new drop boxes are, but they are not next to every mailbox. Most people would need to make a special bus or car trip to drop their ballot off.
