Topic: Voting Rights...
mysticalview21's photo
Thu 07/30/20 01:51 PM
Edited by mysticalview21 on Thu 07/30/20 01:56 PM
our voting rights are being stepped on by the GOP ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

let me say this ... never in history ... have we change our election in Nov.
or postponed ... never ! look back in history ... we have gone through pandemics... wars ... nothing has change and will not be changed ... just becouse they have a puppet for trump ... running the postal service ...does not mean you dont have a right to vote by mail.. not true ... they may be late but will be counted ... (our military has voted with absentee ballad for years) ... maybe some did not want to vote in the primary ... but I know if they have a choice to vote by absentee balled they will ... and even come to vote at the polls... so long as no one shuts them down an does not make them very accessible for people to vote ... (like sometimes they do-> shutting out the votes ...


get ready ...ask for your absentee ballad if u like ...
get registered... know where you need to go vote ... know the hrs ... where a mask and gloves if u like ... but America needs this vote ... that will make a change in everyone's life ...not just a selected few ... TCBS...


if you have any other ideas for voting... feel free ... to comment ...




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Thu 07/30/20 07:22 PM
... running the postal service ...does not mean you dont have a right to vote by mail.

I kinda understand a desire to avoid a mass shift to mail in voting.

For a few years I worked for a credit card company analyzing and investigating fraud and identity theft.
Hundreds of thousands of cases per year, every year, always growing, for the time I worked there.
At that time the (overwhelmingly) biggest contributor was family members (and caregivers) intercepting applications/bills (having stolen the card or numbers and used them for online/phone purchases and hiding/editing/misrepresenting the statement), intercepting new cards in the mail, or people filling out a credit card application with their family members info.
I can absolutely see "woke" teens or family members intercepting the mail to vote how they think their (grand)parents/family members "should."

I've had "convenience checks" intercepted (despite me telling the bank on multiple occasions to stop sending them) after I've moved out of a place (even having filled out a forwarding address slip in advance) and thousands of dollars charged.

I see on youtube a constant barrage of "porch pirates," or the delivery person themselves, stealing packages. I can absolutely see people feeling "justified" going around stealing mail in ballots from conservative, or poor, or left, or LGBTQ, or whatever undesirable to them, neighborhoods.
Or a delivery person taking "video confirmation" of delivery, but then just taking the envelop and throwing it away, or filling it out and sending it back.

Not to mention, I keep getting different neighbors mail. I've gotten one guys monthly supply of insulin 3 times this year. Some mail/package delivery drivers don't check the address. I think at best they just look at google maps and say "this must be the place, it's where the pin is."

I understand it's better to vote in by mail rather than not vote at all.
It's a "better than nothing" option.
But I also see that there is a huge potential for fraud if it's done on a mass scale. Just because fraud (not to mention misdelivery) via the mail is a huge (IMO/IME) problem already.

Other than the chance to bloviate a screed: " our voting rights are being stepped on by the GOP ... "
How exactly and specifically are voting rights actually being stepped on?
Are they actually being stepped on?
Or is it mostly headlines mongering fear about it?
All you've linked is a wikipedia article and the Voting Rights Act from 1965.


if you have any other ideas for voting... feel free ... to comment ...

Simply for my own entertainment, I like the idea of a lottery system. Like jury duty. Where there are no elections or voting. People (that are eligible via constitution eligibility requirements, and tested for drugs, alcohol, and competency) are randomly selected for an office every 2-6 years.

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Fri 07/31/20 12:29 AM
democracy is about counting heads.....not whats in them

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Fri 07/31/20 03:20 AM
Postal ballot voting fraud can be a big problem in parts of the UK. The leader of the Labour Party employed a "special advisor" in a particularly important constituency where the polling revealed a very close contest. This "special adviser" had served prison time for organising ballot fraud and guess what? The Labour Party won the seat.

mysticalview21's photo
Fri 08/07/20 04:47 AM
Edited by mysticalview21 on Fri 08/07/20 04:56 AM
all in all they want to slow the votes down in certain states ...


they have less voting places for people to got to now ...

the seem to have gotten the first primary voting out ...


but they do not want this on the agenda for the Nov votes in certain state ...

becouse it will be taking votes away from the existing president... and this is a do or die ending for the GOP ... they have to know they need someone who is not taking advantage of the people or for his personal gain ...which has started to happen ... do you really feel these last four years where good ... or where they worse for u ... looking at everything that was done ... I would say worse ... economy ug ... health terrible... jobs gone ... unemployment as bad as the great depression now... have we hit rock bottom yet i kinda think so ...
you don't sit there and tell people it is safe to send your children back to school ... they are very vulnerable... and many will die ... this pandemic is not something you just say it will go away ... but how many lives does it have to take ... before the government understand now their wanting the lives of our children ... it needs to be safe for them ... need to start doing lessons over the pc leave know child behind... like they did and get ready in hospitals for their sickness ...its one thing about people another about their children ... know one want this but we sure have to try and live with it ... and be safe about it ...an know one wants a a lame president... that can not lead ...