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AleksS

(1,665 posts)
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:44 PM May 2020

Is the GOP/Trump setting us up on Mail-in voting?

I read (blah) Trumps tweet that got fact checked today. He claimed there’s no way mail in voting will be anything but fraudulent—stolen ballots, broken into mailboxes etc.

Since it’s generally true that when Trump accuses others of something, usually he is actually guilty of that thing, I think it’s safe to say that Trump intends to do mailbox thievery, ballot theft, signature forging, etc.

When he does, does he get to point at the Twitter fact-check and say: Nuh-uh! Mail voting is completely safe—Twitter says so!

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AleksS

(1,665 posts)
3. Does he win coming and going that way?
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

He gets to cheat his lying butt off worse than his golf game, and say that everything is perfectly above-board if his cheatery gets him the W.

OR

If he loses, he’s set the stage to say it’s all fraudulent so he can toss the results.

He wins either way.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,656 posts)
6. He can't toss the results - states and the Electoral College control that - but
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:51 PM
May 2020

he can get the MAGAts all stirred up so that he will remain important and in the news as the leader of some kind of "movement" (I know what kind of movement that would be), and make a shit-ton of money off the rubes.

applegrove

(118,577 posts)
2. I'm sure all sorts of schemes are being thought up to force it. I hope democrats are
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:48 PM
May 2020

ready with their lawyers and leadership.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
5. Real voter fraud is hard. Especially absentee ballots
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:50 PM
May 2020

I trust mailed in votes a thousand times more than electric voting machines that can be hacked.

Paper ballots have a paper trail.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
8. Ratfuckers gotta ratfuck. It's the only thing that tRUMP, reTHUGS and cultists know works
Tue May 26, 2020, 11:28 PM
May 2020

for them...

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