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๐——๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€' ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น-๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ฑ, ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ผ๐˜€.

Voters are right to fear the security of mail-in ballots.

โฌ‡๏ธTHREADโฌ‡๏ธ
Ramona Javier never received a mail-in ballot for NJ's vote-by-mail election. Neither did 8 of her family members & neighbors, but they are listed as having voted.

โ€œWe did not receive vote-by-mail ballots and thus we did not vote, This is corruption. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ.โ€
Local councilman Luis Velez said he already knew of a dozen cases like Javier's across his ward.

Hundreds of ballots were found stuffed & bundled together in a single mailbox ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ.

โ€œWhere is the democracy in this? Where is the fair process?โ€
A cat that died 12 years ago received a voter registration application, complete with a return envelope.

"If they're trying to register cats, ๐˜'๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ'๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ..."

In NJ's city council election:

โš ๏ธ16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but only 13,557 votes were counted.

โš ๏ธMore than 3,190 votes, 19% of the total ballots cast, were disqualified by the board of elections.

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/โ€ฆ Image
THOUSANDS of ballots for NJ's May 12 election that were postmarked on time were not delivered in time to be counted.

newjerseyglobe.com/local/bag-of-uโ€ฆ Image
THOUSANDS of NJ voters were told they would not receive their mail-in ballot ahead of the July 7 primary because of computer malfunctions.

โ€œWe are ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ of running this election in the time allotted,โ€ one county election official said.

newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/someโ€ฆ Image
Four men, including ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ have been charged with election fraud, mail-in voting fraud, and illegal possession of mail-in ballots.

breitbart.com/politics/2020/โ€ฆ Image
Thomas Cooper, a US postal worker pleaded guilty to one count each of ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.

washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/โ€ฆ Image
In Rio Grande Valley, TX at least nine people were charged with voter fraud ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ-๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ด and "๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ."

npr.org/2015/07/07/413โ€ฆ Image
๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿด% ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น-๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฑ.

donaldjtrump.com/media/68-of-voโ€ฆ
In California's primary, 100,000 ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ-๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ.

apnews.com/a45421048cd899โ€ฆ
4 Percent of Mail-In Ballots Could be Thrown Out Because of Postmarking Issues.

"๐˜ˆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ because the post office did not postmark their ballots."

ny1.com/nyc/all-borougโ€ฆ
Even if voters do everything right with mail-in ballots, they still risk disenfranchisement.

"A number of absentee ballots... about 4% that might be thrown away, ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด...

The absentee ballot count will actually determine these races."
Tess Bishop, who registered to vote in the state of Utah in March of 2019, was charged with โ€œ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜บโ€ voting in the election where her father was up for re-election against opponent Chris Craig.

localdvm.com/news/daughter-โ€ฆ
More than 18,500 Floridiansโ€™ ballots were not counted

In Nevada, about 6,700 ballots were rejected in June

During Pennsylvaniaโ€™s primary last month, only state and court orders prevented tens of thousands of late-returned ballots from being disqualified

washingtonpost.com/politics/tens-โ€ฆ
A local news channel's vote-by-mail experiment proved that the process disenfranchises Americans.

"I just don't trust the mail" said one voter.

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