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vote in person or request an absentee ballot that must be postmarked by Election Day.
This crap with ballots still dribbling in weeks later really does undermine the system in both reality and perception.
For any Republican to put on a pouty face, and wag their finger
Exactly, if you can’t count the ballots accurately in a few hours, it probably because there is some form of malfeasance going on.
I doubt it, but let’s leave that question to one side. The real issue is that the wholesale practice of early or mail-in voting makes a mockery of elections. If you say that an election is to be held on November 8, but millions of ballots are already docketed, if not actually counted, by the time November 8 rolls around, why bother to have Election Day at all? Why not have Election Week, or Election Month, or Election Quarter?
Elections are meant to represent a particular decision made at particular time at which voters can assess the state of things at that moment and make their choice. Early and mail-in voting undermines the definitiveness of that practice. I suspect that in many cases the result of an election is essentially predetermined by early and mail-in voting, something that makes the very idea of Election Day superfluous.
There is also the elephant, or rather the donkey, in the room: mail-in voting is largely a Democratic concession, encouraged and abetted by Democrats in order to help influence the course of elections. My own feeling is that the practice should be sharply curtailed, if not outlawed. If that is impossible, it should at least be made “safe, legal and rare,” as Bill Clinton said in another context.
But we won.
The House of Representatives is now red.
The elation of the democrats will fade and turn to frustration and sadness.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
I doubt it, but let’s leave that question to one side.
What question?
Edited the title to acknowledge the Red Tsunami of Florida, where the mules could not do their “work”/fraud.
PeopleUnited says
Edited the title to acknowledge the Red Tsunami of Florida, where the mules could not do their “work”/fraud.
Who stopped them there? And how?
Eric Holder says
PeopleUnited says
Edited the title to acknowledge the Red Tsunami of Florida, where the mules could not do their “work”/fraud.
Who stopped them there? And how?
Voting laws and strict enforcement of custody.
They don't have Demonrats running election districts there? FL used to be a swing state non a long ago so there must be lots of these still around.
I noticed libertarian candidates (anti-Fauci, anti-regulations, pro 2nd amendment, anti-Biden style welfare state, pro low taxes, etc.) were major factors in races where Republicans lost by a small margin such as Maine's 1st Congressional District.
Yet, Green Party candidates had no impact on Congressional races. I think there is a deal between the Green Party and Democrat Party.
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I noticed libertarian candidates (anti-Fauci, anti-regulations, pro 2nd amendment, anti-Biden style welfare state, pro low taxes, etc.) were major factors in races where Republicans lost by a small margin such as Maine's 1st Congressional District.
And the Georgia Senate race. Wlaker would have won without a runoff.
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Yet, Green Party candidates had no impact on Congressional races. I think there is a deal between the Green Party and Democrat Party.
Or even a deal between the Libertarians and the Democrats. The Libertarians were well aware that running candidate would benefit the Dems.
In Iowa around 35% of voters voted against making the right to bear arms a state constitutional right. Are these voters even awake? Perhaps they should try living in a country that bans ownership of firearms and report back to us how that goes for them?
In Pennsylvania voters “elected” a stroke survivor with lasting and perhaps permanent cognitive impairment to represent them in the senate and in Minnesota voters elected an America hating, sibling marrying adulterer to a third term in Congress.
And these are not even the lowlights of the election.
I’m sure in your neck of the woods you have other examples to share?
But in Florida where they strengthened and enforced rules regulating drop boxes the Republicans won supermajorities in both houses. and Ron DeSantis even won Miami! It just goes to show that when the Dems can’t cheat, they can’t win.