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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 30, 2020, 03:14 PM Oct 2020

Trump Can't Stop Talking About How He Plans to Steal the Election

With six days to go until the 2020 election, Donald Trump seems to have realized he has little chance of winning based on votes alone. So he‘s hoping that this year, the process by which the victor is determined plays out a little differently, in that not all the ballots are counted. Last night at a rally in Michigan, he once again baselessly suggested that mail-in voting is rife with fraud, asking the crowd “Who’s sending them? Where are they going? Who’s sending them back?” And on Wednesday, he just gave up the entire game:

“We’ll see what happens at the end of the day [on Election Day],” he told reporters. “Hopefully it won't go longer than that. Hopefully the few states remaining that want to take a lot of time after November 3 to count ballots, that won’t be allowed by the various courts.”


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Of course, in America, unlike in dictatorial countries that hold sham elections just for show, we count all the ballots that are cast. That’s particularly important this year, with COVID-19 scaring many people off from voting in person, and with the postal service curiously taking longer than usual to deliver stuff. And clearly, someone has alerted the president to the fact that the majority of ballots being sent via mail probably aren’t for him:

Democrats have amassed significant leads over Republicans in pre-Election Day voting in key states, raising the stakes for President Donald Trump, who will need blockbuster Election Day turnout to close the gap. Party registration doesn’t predict how individuals will vote. But the data shows that Democrats are following through on their strong preference for mail-in voting, while many Republicans still plan to vote in person on November


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Trump Can't Stop Talking About How He Plans to Steal the Election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
I just don't see how one day of voting vs several days/wks of early voting and mail ins can come Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #1

Thekaspervote

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1. I just don't see how one day of voting vs several days/wks of early voting and mail ins can come
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 03:22 PM
Oct 2020

Close to matching or passing those totals. In a normal election year yes. But with heavy turn out is it possible?

The opposite argument is that with lots of voting places, better staffed..won’t take as long to vote..really? What about all the ppl that stood in very long lines to vote early in person going into well staffed polling places day after day?

Just my opinion

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