In final Colorado push, Trump urges supporters to hand-deliver ballots

[uawchild]

Source: USA Today

DENVER – Continuing his barnstorming tour of the country, Donald Trump rallied supporters in this swing state Saturday night, urging them to hand-deliver their ballots and promising to immediately repeal Obamacare.

Colorado will play a key role in the election days away. Trump and running mate Mike Pence have repeatedly visited, as has Hillary Clinton, her daughter Chelsea and, on Friday, former President Bill Clinton.

“We had 17. We have one left,” Trump said, referring to primary contenders. “I have one left before we make this country great again.”

Hours earlier, Trump was rushed off the stage at a rally in Reno, Nev., after a disturbance broke out in the crowd nearby as he spoke. Trump resumed his speech, saying "nobody said it was going to be easy for us, but we will never be stopped."


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/11/06/denver-colorado-rally-trump-urges-supporters-hand-deliver-ballots/93385754/

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Sigh.

The "disturbance" was just a white middle-aged man, who btw is a registered Republican, trying to hold up a sign that said "Republicans against Trump".

And this "hand deliver ballots" bullshit is just him casting dispersions on the integrity of our elections. He just keeps trying to fire up the conspiracy nuts and the hate groups.

I really hope his thinly veiled incitement of violence doesn't get someone hurt.

[judesedit]

1. The whole rush him off stage thing was a set-up....Hollywood style. Hopefully many of his supporters

don't want Obamacare destroyed. They finally have health insurance- if they had a pre-existing condition, have a child with a disability/authism, get subsidies, etc. Unless, of course, they are below the poverty line and their deplorable Republican governor would not expand Medicaid. Let's just hope they have half a brain to think of the reality outside of Trumpworld, and ears that will hear common sense before they vote. Pray, folks, that they cannot steal this election, like they have so many others.

[Historic NY]

2. Repeal Obummer care thats exactly what they want....

they want to go back to the old way.... Apparently someone didn't tell them the old way would be even more expensive and would cover less.

[Andy823]

5. Yep

Some republicans don't really get it. They are "manipulated" by politicians that "tell" them how to think. They don't seem to understand that while Trump, and republicans in general, want to "repeal" Obama care, they had nothing to take it's place, and things will go back to the way they were, meaning higher costs, and as you stated, less coverage.

Even if they were told, many would never believe it because, well Trump would NEVER lie!

[allan01]

3. dont forget endless debt

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "a white middle-aged man"

He wasn't even "middle-aged". He was a youngin' (at least to me) - 33 years old. But he represents a significant segment of the more moderate Republicans (generally those who are not into social wedge issues but who tend to focus on economic/governmental policies enough to still rile up Dems in any case). I hope this kind will finally get a clue about what has happened to their party by allowing the fringe to take over.

[Helen Borg]

6. Why cannot they just text in the ballots?

[uawchild]

7. well played n/t

[progree]

8. Not a bad idea

Last edited Sun Nov 6, 2016, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

In Ohio, a spelling error could cost you your vote
By John Whitesides and Andy Sullivan, Reuters, November 1, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-spelling-error-could-cost-vote-101441748.html

Laws passed by the Republican-led Ohio state legislature in 2014 require voters to accurately fill out their personal information on absentee or provisional ballots or they will be rejected - even if the votes are otherwise valid. The laws are being applied in a presidential election for the first time this year.

A Reuters analysis found that where a voter lives can determine whether their provisional or absentee ballot counts in Ohio. The law requiring a perfect match on information such as name, address, birthdate, signature and ID number has been enforced unequally county to county, federal data and court documents show, with local officials sometimes using wide latitude in applying the standards.

The disparity could hurt Democrats in Ohio, a vital battleground in the Nov. 8 election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The 14 Ohio counties with the most restrictive enforcement accounted for 53 percent of Ohio's total vote in 2012 and gave Democratic President Barack Obama 60 percent of the votes he won in Ohio. ... More than half of the provisional and absentee votes discarded for minor errors in 2014 came from five large, Democratic-dominated urban counties.

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Many smaller, heavily Republican rural counties did not reject any ballots for those reasons. In Wyandot County, ballots examined for the lawsuit found officials approved ballots without a valid street address, city or zip code, a wrong or missing birthdate, or a misspelled name.

It's a long article but a very interesting read ... the picayune errors that got one rejected like misspelling a street “Cuthberth” rather than “Cuthbert". Or writing some information in cursive instead of print. Or or or....

kind of a modern-day literacy test by requiring voters to read, write and understand voting forms without making any errors or leaving out information.

Also, Wisconsin and Georgia also has a similar laws, although less strict thanks to court action.

[hr]

I early-voted in-person at a voting center (in Minnesota) where they validate one's application before one gets a ballot. I'm not sure what happens to people who vote by mail who have a mistake on their application....

Crossposted in General Discussion 2016 http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512571391
Crossposted in Electrion Reform http://www.democraticunderground.com/10912283

As for any progressive (or any conscious human being) who thinks our election system is one of high integrity, try explaining to me caging, eliminating people from the voting rolls for any number of reasons such as a name / race / birthdate similar to a felon (Kathleen Harris), voter ID, the 2000 and 2004 elections, gerrymandering, electronic voting machines with no paper trails, elections where white suburbs have ample numbers of voting machines and 10 minute lines, while inner cities have multi-hours long lines, the gutting of a key part of the Voting Rights Act by the then Republican-majority Supreme Court, and the list goes on and on and fucking on.

[hr]

This Election Is Being Rigged — But Not By Democrats, by Ari Berman, The Nation, billmoyers.com

http://billmoyers.com/story/election-rigged-not-democrats/

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/19/the_real_vote_rigging_republicans_make

[33taw]

9. I plan to ever since 2004 when my registration was "mistakenly" purged.

[DK504]

10. SS protects him from a supporter

"The "disturbance" was just a white middle-aged man, who btw is a registered Republican, trying to hold up a sign that said "Republicans against Trump". "

LOL....so The Dumpster is just a shriveled nut sack? LOL....what a chicken shit. He's scared of his own supporters...LOL

And how the hell do you deliver your own ballots? Doesn't that invalid?

[Ms. Toad]

11. You walk it into the board of elections and hand it to them.

Perfectly legal in most states that permit early voting and, at this point, much more certain to be counted than if you drop it in the mail.

(And, FWIW, it wasn't a supporter - it was a Republican who opposes him.)

[cbfromco]

13. Too late to mail them in now

Hand delivering is the only option since they won't be received in time to be counted if they are mailed. The easiest way is to one of the many drop off boxes - I delivered mine that way almost 2 weeks ago. This was actually a logical and pragmatic comment by Trump - threw me for a loop.

[bushisanidiot]

12. Could be another tell by trump basically broadcasting shenanigans

That his supporters are pulling with mail in ballots.

Does anyone know if names or addresses are visible on mail in ballot envelopes?