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As I pointed out in this piece in @TheAtlIdeas @TheAtlantic some states’ election authorities are putting up their own vote by mail repositories, boxes with drive-in windows in convenient places to make it easy to vote and avoid postal issues. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Now we need @MikeBloomberg @JeffBezos @BillGates And other billionaires who care about free and fair elections and the future of America To go to state election officials and governors and create a partnership. You buy the safe secure vote by mail boxes. They install & possess.
We need extraordinary measures to make voting by mail available and workable. Trump and congressional Republicans will not fund election security, will cripple USPS, and, as we are seeing in Portland, they may well send out paramilitary thugs on Nov 3 to suppress votes in cities.
If you have any connection to patriotic billionaires, or to election officials who genuinely want to protect votes, contact them and try and get them to act in this way.
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