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“Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election
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Face it. The election is already bought.
I feel like we need to shout from the hills: vote in person. I know it’s unpleasant, and can be a time waster versus mail in. But the hostility for mail ballots is so overtly transparent, we should all be striving to bypass it to beat these clowns.
And vote EARLY. Not doing so as they’re removing polling places will ultimately end up with long lines and long wait times, meaning there’s likely going to be a bunch of folks that find themselves unable to vote or their votes not being counted.
I think that is very important. Don't just show up on election day and wait in long lines and find out that Republicans fucked up your registration or something. Vote early when it's less crowded and when you have time to fix any problems that magically happened to your voter registration.
My location doesn't do this. If we want to vote in person, we go on Election Day. That said, the polling is typically well run, and our locations tend to move people through without overloading. (That's thanks to the efforts of our poll workers!)
And vote a week or two in advance. No stupid lines or unpleasant bs.
With electronic voting machines and ICE intimidating voters at polling places in battleground districts? That’s exactly what they want.
Dammit, I’m not gonna be able to vote naked
We must all make sacrifices in these trying times
...since when?
I usually vote by mail and I fill the ballot out naked to assert dominance
When the ballot is supposed to be secret but you get so excited about participating in democracy you leave a bit of DNA on the paper
There's nothing but your friendly local sheriff keeping you from doing the same in person. The poll workers could probably use the entertainment.
I guess showing up in an American flag speedo and cut off shirt will have to do
That's what they want. You're more likely to just disenfranchise would be mail-in voters than you are to suddenly disrupt well established voting trends. Screw up mail in voting and the stats indicate you give the win to GOP. They want you to doubt the mail in system.
The decaying institutions of a capitalist liberal democracy cannot stop the rising tide of fascism, it can only slow it down.