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Why do all you journos claim Trumps claims about election security are unfounded? There are plenty of stories in media including NYT and there have been arrests of both Dems and Republican.
Trump claims that it’s possible for people to submit multiple votes that aren’t theirs. That it’s possible for a foreign entity to “stuff ballot boxes”. That’s complete nonsense.
There are numerous ways States try to ensure that people only vote once and if voting by mail, your signature has to match. And you only get one.
Even if you sent in a mail in ballot and showed up on the day, only one get’s counted.
Anyone caught voting twice is risking a criminal conviction.
The real danger is things like what the Republican Party are doing n California, using illegal ballot collection boxes. Therefore risking peoples votes not being counted.
That and voter intimidation, trying to reduce the efficiency of the postal service, voter ID and reducing the numbers of places where people can actually vote leading to long wait times. Up to 11 hours in some places (weirdly, that’s usually in democratic leaning areas in Republican States. )
Voter suppression is what is really going on here and there is only one party pushing that.
@Tricia G: they are not unfounded. People dont get locked up for unfounded allegations. When you are found guilty it isn’t unfounded. Also the dems wanted to remove security features like signature verification and postmarks but yeah sure they dont intend to cheat. They are the good guys. Dream on
@Stephen Brady: Funny how Trump hasn’t said a word about the digital voting machines……. He’s only slated the mail in ballots.
And that really can’t be rigged.
And if you’d bothered to read the story you yourself posted you’d have seen the following (which supports my point) “But some election experts said it was somewhat misleading to use the Paterson scandal as a cudgel to discredit mail-in voting, noting that election fraud is extremely rare and, as the case in New Jersey shows, is usually easy to detect.”
And the rest of the article REALLY shows why voting fraud is a non-issue….. Did you even bother to read it?!
@Stephen Brady: “dems wanted to remove security features like signature verification and postmarks” – Okay, you’re gonna need to provide evidence of that because I think that is a flat out lie.
@Stephen Brady: fun fact: caught, arrested and a new election happening. If the same logic was applied to guns Republicans would lose their minds. Some people might misuse them so let’s get rid of them has never really been a republican stance.
There were a lot of voters that never thought Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton and they got a real shock when he won the election. Those people came out in 2018 for the mid-terms and they’re going to vote, come hell or highwater, in this Presidential Campaign.
Trump scrapped in the last time. There has never been a US electorate more eager to vote. A high turnout bodes badly not just for Trump but for many Republican’s like Lindsey Graham. He never believed for a minute his race would be so close.
Never say never, Trump could still pull out a miracle but there is a very motivated electorate trying to prevent it.
@Tricia G: I’ve always thought that the potential of a democrat victory has been undermined. They won a landslide in the 2018. There’s definitely some type of silent majority.
@Tricia G: trump could still win, but I wouldn’t be surprised at a blue Tsunami. The dems will win a few extra senate seats that they had not anticipated to win.
It’s going to be a Trump win.
Creepy Joe has dementia and with all the new stories about his Corrupt and depraved son Hunter being silenced by big tech companies the Democrats can’t hide it anymore.
People are fed up with the Democrats lies.
@Leo The Liar: more worrying than Hunters behaviour is his dad’s. Remember Clinton was impeached for lying about his affair not having the affair. Biden has already lied about his knowledge of Hunters business dealings. Could this alone be enough? Who knows? There is a lot more to come on this.
A lot of the states don’t actually start counting the postal ballots until the polls on election day are closed themselves. This will probably lead to Trump declaring “victory” on the night and claim “massive fraud” when the postal vote puts Biden back in the lead.
In Florida a Democratic lady said that they are being hurt as the Republicans are calling them socialists and Cubans who live there remember that they lost everything to socialists in Cuba.
At this stage I hope Trump does lose and then maybe the Irish Media will concentrate on our own inept and self serving power hungry politicians, especially #LeoTheLeak.
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