Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Mail-In Voting Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:40:17 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 101 Message-ID: References: <68-cndeZBcdJV5n7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:40:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="25ddeebed01c8cd9c05bbadd086500eb"; logging-data="1171493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/q+Bl1rz/JVDWCXtE9lqz4" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:m5mO/y4tC391Er1GoeOxuJcTyAA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5175 On 3/29/24 4:36 PM, trotsky wrote: > On 3/29/24 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article , >>   shawn wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:27:17 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >>> >>>> In article , FPP >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 3/28/24 1:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> In article , FPP >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 3/27/24 9:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> France banned mail-in voting in 1975 due to fraud. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mexico banned mail-in voting in 1992 due to fraud. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Belgium banned mail-in voting in 2018 due to fraud. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sweden rejected a mail-in voting proposal. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Italy rejected a mail-in voting proposal. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Ukraine rejected a mail-in voting proposal. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Russia and Japan do not permit mail-in voting. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No Middle Eastern country permits mail-in voting. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No Latin American country permits mail-in voting. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In the United States, Democrats love mail-in voting and are trying >>>>>>>> their damnedest to get instituted everywhere. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why don't we just go back to making a mark on a piece of broken >>>>>>> pottery, >>>>>>> and put it in a big wine jar? >>>>>> >>>>>>> Because that's WAY better than requesting a ballot online and >>>>>>> filling it >>>>>>> out and putting it in the mail - and then track it online so you >>>>>>> can see >>>>>>> it was received and accepted. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Because one of those ways is a 21st century innovation, and the >>>>>>> others >>>>>>> are as incredibly outdated as stone knives and bear skins. >>>>>> >>>>>> And yet it'd still be better than what we have now in mail-in >>>>>> California, where they're *still* counting the March primary >>>>>> votes. And >>>>>> not only does Schiff keep gaining votes, but Garvey seems to >>>>>> somehow be >>>>>> *losing* them. >>>>>> >>>>>> How do vote totals for a candidate go down? Only in California... >>>>>> >>>>> By math, stupid. The same way they go up. >>>> >>>> How do you count ten votes for Garvey and then an hour later reduce the >>>> total to eight? Did those two mystery votes exist or not? Did you count >>>> them or not? If you counted them, how could they go away and reduce the >>>> total? >>>> >>>> If someone gives you a pile of apples to count and then periodically >>>> checks in to see how you're doing, why would there be less apples at >>>> the >>>> last check-in than there were at the first? >>> >>> Someone made a mistake in the count in the first place, or someone >>> counted votes for Garvey but it was provisional and those votes were >>> later removed. Without hearing from the people responsible there's no >>> way to know just what happened. >> >> It's weird how this only happens to the Republican candidate. > > > Is that what happened when Trump lost to Biden too?  Go ahead, complete > the lie. > > > We didn't >> see any reduction in votes for Schiff. His numbers only rise. Same with >> the other Democrat, Katie Porter. Her numbers only go up. Just like >> trunk ballots always favor the Democrat by some wild coincidence. > I always knew he couldn't read, but I wasn't sure he couldn't count. Guess we know now. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0