PA Primary Election

[Dreamgurrl]

If you haven’t heard the primary has been rescheduled for June 2nd. Also, somewhat new is that anyone can register for a mail in ballot and you don’t need a special reason for it. It is an option for everyone!
Here is the link:
http://https://www.pavoterservices.p...eAbsenteeBegin

Enjoy the sunshine today!

[jmichael]

Thanks DG

[jedo321]

Originally Posted by Dreamgurrl

If you haven’t heard the primary has been rescheduled for June 2nd. Also, somewhat new is that anyone can register for a mail in ballot and you don’t need a special reason for it. It is an option for everyone!
Here is the link:
http://https://www.pavoterservices.p...eAbsenteeBegin

Enjoy the sunshine today!

Here's a link that works:
https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/O...eAbsenteeBegin

[Dreamgurrl]

Originally Posted by jedo321

Here's a link that works:
https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/O...eAbsenteeBegin

Thank you!

[Chase7]

Mail in votes, the liberals have been trying to get this. Now we will have fraud in voting, good for them.
Remember when Romney didn't get ONE vote in 59 Philadelphia districts.

Four Democrats now await trial on charges such as committing fraud, intimidating voters, and tampering with public records. One couple from Philadelphia reported the following experience when they tried to vote.

First they were told they had to go “get a stamp” outside the polling place -- where Democrats handed out stamps for write-in candidates. Then, when an Election Board worker heard they wanted to vote Republican, a witness heard him bellow: “Not on my machine!” And though they both said they eventually cast ballots, in the end only one GOP vote was recorded at the polling place.

[Jacuzzme]

Yeah, screw that mail in ballot bullshit. Paper ballots and photo identification or gtfo.

[tannana]

Originally Posted by Chase7

Mail in votes, the liberals have been trying to get this. Now we will have fraud in voting, good for them.

I know. Only fraudsters vote by mail. It's why Trump just did so.


PA vote by mail will be a godsend this year. And every year hence. (a bipartisan majority in the legislature changed the law in october of 2019.)

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

Yeah, screw that mail in ballot bullshit. Paper ballots and photo identification or gtfo.

Shall folks who are serving abroad "GTFO?" Funny thing: when I was, I started a habit. I've voted for 30 years and change in PA and have shown an ID 4 times. Most of those times have been by mail. Enjoy knowing that the PA legislature enabled any registered voter to vote by mail so now everyone else can do so, too.



In fact, you can get on a list where they'll send you the mail-in ballot application automatically every year. I was on this list the day it went live--I suggest you all do the same.

[lustylad]

Hey tannana, is Jimmy Carter wrong?


Heed Jimmy Carter on the Danger of Mail-In Voting

‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.’

By John R. Lott Jr.
April 10, 2020 6:27 pm ET

"Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an election at the last minute into an exclusively mail-in affair. It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.

Concerns about vote-buying have a long history in the U.S. They helped drive the move to the secret ballot, which U.S. states adopted between 1888 and 1950. Secret ballots made it harder for vote buyers to monitor which candidates sellers actually voted for. Vote-buying had been pervasive; my research with Larry Kenny at the University of Florida has found that voter turnout fell by about 8% to 12% after states adopted the secret ballot.

You wouldn’t know any of this listening to the media outcry over Mr. Trump’s remarks. “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting,” the president said Tuesday. In response, a CNN “fact check” declares that Mr. Trump “opened a new front in his campaign of lies about voter fraud.” A New York Times headline asserts: “Trump Is Pushing a False Argument on Vote-by-Mail Fraud.” Both claim that voter fraud is essentially nonexistent. The Carter-Baker report found otherwise.

Intimidation and vote buying were key concerns of the commission: “Citizens who vote at home, at nursing homes, at the workplace, or in church are more susceptible to pressure, overt and subtle, or to intimidation. Vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.” The report provides examples, such as the 1997 Miami mayoral election that resulted in 36 arrests for absentee-ballot fraud. The election had to be rerun, and the result was reversed.

There are more recent cases, too. In 2017 an investigation of a Dallas City Council election found some 700 fraudulent mail-in ballots signed by the same witness using a fake name. The discovery left two council races in limbo, and the fraud was much larger than the vote differential in one of those races. The case resulted in a criminal conviction.

In a 2018 North Carolina congressional race, Republican Mark Harris edged out Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. Fortunately, the state had relatively complete absentee-ballot records. Election officials became suspicious when they discovered that the Republican received 61% of mail-in votes, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19% of those who had requested mail-in ballots.

A Republican operative, L. McCrae Dowless Jr., had allegedly requested more than 1,200 absentee ballots on voters’ behalf and then collected the ballots from voters’ homes when they were mailed out. Mr. Dowless’s assistants testified that they were directed to forge voters’ signatures and fill in votes. A new election was required, but Mr. Harris didn’t run. Mr. Dowless faces criminal charges for absentee-ballot fraud in both the 2016 and 2018 elections and has pled not guilty.

It is often claimed that impossibly large numbers of people live at the same address. In 2016, 83 registered voters in San Pedro, Calif., received absentee ballots at the same small two-bedroom apartment. Prosecutors rarely pursue this type of case.

Mail-in voting is a throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Because of this, many countries don’t allow absentee ballots for citizens living in their country, including Norway and Mexico. Americans deserve a more trustworthy system.

[bambino]

I think I’ll show up and vote in person. That’s just how I roll.

[Looker151]

Agree with ya Bam, as long as I am able, I will vote for the crook of my choice.

[tannana]

Originally Posted by lustylad

Hey tannana, is Jimmy Carter wrong?

On almost everything outside charitable endeavours, my answer to that has been a resounding "yes" since 1976.

[DrivesAllDay]

So someone can't go onto the Dark Web, and within an hour have bought the names, addresses, signatures, SS#, phone numbers, credit card numbers of a few hundred people, living or dead, to falsify votes?


Extreme? Yes. Possible? Sure! Already had a buddy of mine have 2lbs of herbal green stuff shipped to an empty house on his street (bitcoin has its uses). Its really not difficult to get anything on the Dark Web. And I do mean Anything!

[1pittsburgh]

Originally Posted by Chase7

Mail in votes, the liberals have been trying to get this. Now we will have fraud in voting, good for them.
Remember when Romney didn't get ONE vote in 59 Philadelphia districts.

Four Democrats now await trial on charges such as committing fraud, intimidating voters, and tampering with public records. One couple from Philadelphia reported the following experience when they tried to vote.

First they were told they had to go “get a stamp” outside the polling place -- where Democrats handed out stamps for write-in candidates. Then, when an Election Board worker heard they wanted to vote Republican, a witness heard him bellow: “Not on my machine!” And though they both said they eventually cast ballots, in the end only one GOP vote was recorded at the polling place.

I take it you never heard of Leslie McCrae Dowless, the GOP operative who collected mail in ballots from elderly people, telling them he'd turn them in for them, but what he didn't tell them is that he'd alter them before he turned them in.

How about Robert Landon and John Matthews, Ohio GOP, who were caught passing out fake ballots to voters?

How about Terri Lynn Rote who was caught voting twice for Trump in the 2016 general election?