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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople in PA, MI and WI should DEMAND that mail in ballots
be processed before election day - not counted, just made ready to count on election day.
This is nuts and it just encourages the trolls like Trump.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)But it isn't like we wanted it this way.
sweetloukillbot
(10,997 posts)And rejected by the Republican legislatures...
TwilightZone
(25,451 posts)In Wisconsin, it was requested that the GOP state legislature change the law, but they declined.
David__77
(23,364 posts)I'm hopeful that the courts will not be relied on to facilitate that.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,703 posts)except for one attempt they made by extortion that they would allow "pre-canvassing" if we gave up the drop boxes and satellite offices.
Bzzzt. Nope.
As a note, this is the first full year of PA actually having "no-excuse absentee ballots" and it was a miracle that the legislation was passed at all. Of course that happened last fall before COVID and the later manufacturing of a new GOP talking point from the crazies at 1600 that insulted mail-in voting. So now their dear leader has hung it like an albatross around their necks and they seem to want to do anything they can to kneecap it.
LakeArenal
(28,809 posts)WI Ron Johnson went to Russia on the Fourth of July.
Pukes wont even count late arrivals postmarked by 3rd.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...but maybe it's better this way. I couldn't help but notice that practically every state that tallied their mail-ins early had "blue mirage" syndrome and wound up falling for Trump. It struck me that, if the mail-ins are counted first, someone could leak those totals to the right Comrades...I mean people, who could arrange for the vote-count from in-person voting to fall just enough toward their favored candidate to give them the race. Whereas, if they don't know what the totals will be, it's a lot harder to manipulate the in-person tabulation for a plausible result.
yellowcanine
(35,698 posts)Counting them is fast once they are prepared.