Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
We are still more than 40 days away from the election, and already we are seeing huge red flags regarding the integrity of the voting process in some states. No matter who you support, you should want the upcoming election to be fair. Every American should be able to vote, all of those votes should be counted, and the decision that the American people make should be respected. Unfortunately, it appears that this is likely to be the most chaotic election in modern American history, and wrangling over what votes should be counted and what votes should not be counted is likely to persist long after election night is over. In the end, it would not be surprising to see the outcome of the election end up at the Supreme Court, and that is a scenario that none of us should want to see.
Let me give you an example that shows why I am so concerned. In Pennsylvania, a recent legal decision requires officials to throw out mail-in ballots without counting them if voters do not return them in “secrecy envelopes”…
Philadelphia’s top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the presidential battleground state if lawmakers there do not remove a provision in Pennsylvania law that, under a days-old court decision, requires counties to throw out mail-in ballots returned without secrecy envelopes.
This is a very big deal, because large numbers of votes could be voided in one of our most important swing states.
According to the Washington Times, it is being estimated that “more than 100,000 mail-in ballots” could potentially be thrown out…
Some 30,000 to 40,000 mail-in ballots could arrive without secrecy envelopes in Philadelphia alone in November’s presidential election, Deeley estimated, and the state Supreme Court’s interpretation of current law forces election officials to throw them out.
Statewide, that could mean throwing out more than 100,000 mail-in ballots in the Nov. 3 presidential election, according to some estimates.
In 2016, President Trump won the state of Pennsylvania by just 44,292 votes.
So eliminating 100,000 votes could potentially swing the outcome from one candidate to the other.
And if the national results are very close, whoever wins Pennsylvania could ultimately determine who wins the White House.
Sadly, this is not the only reason to be deeply concerned about the integrity of the vote in Pennsylvania. Last week, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that the deadline for mail-in ballots will be “the Friday after Election Day”…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued three rulings on Thursday, extended the deadline for mail-in ballots to the Friday after Election Day, ruled voters could use dropbox to return mail-in ballots, and removed the Green Party’s presidential ticket from the ballot.
So does this mean that countless numbers of voters in the state could potentially cast votes after election day and still have them counted?
I am just imagining a scenario where one party is barely behind in the state on election night and then makes an all-out push to have more people vote by mail on Wednesday and Thursday. If the party that is in the lead does not match that late push, that could also be something that flips the outcome of the election.
There are so many things that could go wrong, and I believe that we are headed for a giant mess no matter who wins.
Signs of trouble continue to pile up in other states as well. In Wisconsin, a federal judge just decided that absentee ballots “can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election”…
A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
The highly anticipated ruling, unless overturned, means that the outcome of the presidential race in Wisconsin might not be known for days after polls close. Under current law, the deadline for returning an absentee ballot to have it counted is 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Wisconsin is another one of the most critical swing states, and so this is very troubling news.
In so many states, we are going to have to wait for a long time after the election before we get final results, and that period of uncertainty is going to be very bad for our nation.
I just have such a bad feeling about what is going to happen in November. It is being estimated that up to 40 percent of the population will vote by mail, and that number is far, far higher than anything that we have ever seen before.
And we also have millions and millions of people registering to vote without ever having to come face to face with anyone. In fact, Facebook has announced that they have “already registered 2.5 million Americans to vote”…
Facebook says it has already registered 2.5 million Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, with a goal of registering 4 million total before Election Day.
In a blog post in advance of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, the social-media giant touted its combined registration figures from Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, extrapolating from conversion rates from several states.
Seriously?
We all know that Facebook has millions of fake profiles. In fact, I get friend requests from fake profiles constantly.
So who decided that it would be okay for them to register “millions of people” to vote?
And the way that some states are aggressively promoting mail-in voting is making a lot of people really upset. One of my readers that intends to vote in person told me that in the past five weeks “my wife and I have received three requests each for mail in ballots!”
Another one of my readers has been very confused by the forms that she has been getting in the mail, because they make it seem like voting by mail is not optional…
“A few weeks ago I got a form in the mail about voting by mail. Days later I asked a neighbor about it because I want to vote in person and they said that we can vote in person. In today’s mail I received a letter from my secretary of state asking me why I had not begun the process yet. It doesn’t say that it’s optional, they are just leading us to believe it’s the only way we are going to be allowed to vote.”
This enormous push for mail-in votes is going to create an unprecedented mess, and the outcome of the presidential election is likely to be contested no matter who is ahead on election night.
Needless to say, a contested outcome is likely to spark even more civil unrest, and that won’t be good for our country at all.
This is such a critical moment for America, and the voice of every American should be respected.
But if the integrity of our voting process is compromised, that could result in someone winning the election that the American people did not choose, and that is something that none of us should want.
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Having a lot of ballots arrive by mail allows Dems to slide in a lot of faked ones. So that could help them. It could also cause of lot of their voters’ ballots to be thrown out because their voters were too stupid to follow the rules – signing them, mailing them in the right envelope, making sure they’re mailed early enough to be postmarked in time, etc.
I’m not sure it’ll be a net benefit for Dems. It would be funny if they end up shooting themselves in the pussy with their scheme to scare everyone out of voting because of the China virus. They’re mainly scaring their own people and then those people will fuck up their mail-in ballots. Even in a normal year without this massive pandemic-based push for mail-in votes, something like 7-10% of mailed ballots don’t end up counting.
one can hope iska.
How will the folks counting mail in ballots, be able to verify if a person previously voted on election day, using the traditional voting machine?
and how will the same group be able to determine if the mailed in ballot was from an actual registered voter, instead of your dog, that has a magazine subscription in it’s name and now receives junk mail..
Does anyone think any of the states planning on using massive mail in votes, have built up the digital resources required to create such a verification process?
This election, will be used, just like covid is being used, to advance “Agenda’s” that have been in the works for decades.
I suspect this election will be the worst cluster fuck, and result in a paradigm shift in our thinking of the country.
in the future, people will reference 2020 and say “remember before 2020, when you could do this, or were allowed to do that…”
“remember….”
when you could vote in person,
when you could log onto the web, without a facial rec
when you could drive from state to state, without having to show your papers
when you were innocent, until proven guilty
when you could own a gun, without a lengthy background check, and an approval from a judge.
etc.
I remember when a 10 year old kid could go to Sears, buy a J C Higgins shotgun, leave the store and go hunting with it the same day.
I told a younger guy about strapping my shotgun on my bike and riding out to go shooting and he couldn’t believe anyone could do such a thing.
Ice cold in a good way.
Darth Vader Ginsberg
When this is on EVERY BALLOT for EVERY RACE in America, then voters will finally be able to express their opinions and be counted. In addition, if NOTA wins, NONE of the candidates running should be allowed to run in the re-do. If we are to honestly care about giving everyone a vote that truly means something, this is a very basic START to fixing this broken system.
Smith and Wesson, Ruger, Glock, Remington, Taurus, and others are going have the final say in this contest I fear.
The election should be decided by a Gentleman’s Duel at 10 yards.
Could we apply that to EVERY election at EVERY level of government? I would be fine with that. Win-win for everyone involved.
It would guarantee that the candidates do indeed “have skin in the game.” Provided “seconds” are disallowed.
It doesn’t say much for folks if they can’t read the instructions and fill out a ballot correctly and put it in the right envelope. sheesh.