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 12:39:31 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 86 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 16:39:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="25ddeebed01c8cd9c05bbadd086500eb"; logging-data="1171493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/RRJGFSMtmFIO8GdDZxe5F" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kyakqjbtD+GNaabqPUmvhBcXGlE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4901 On 3/29/24 4:02 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 are as incredibly outdated as stone knives and bear skins.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. 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. > No, it isn't. You haven't shown where that's true. You keep saying it, but your word is for shit. -- "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