Thread by @segalink

I think your indoctrination is the actual travesty Distinguished. Just in case there are more like you, here is a free insight for your edification on the concerns of reasonable people (void of sentiments) about the flawed universal mail-in ballot route. #Elections2020

https://twitter.com/firstclassme/status/1324268903984435201

There is a clear difference between absentee ballot (which is the traditional route) and the new universal mail-in ballot. It is not as simplistic as sticking your ballot in the mail for counting. The catch here is that a specific request is made in Absentee balloting.

Whereas in Universal mail-in approach, ballots are simply mailed en masse. That is, millions of people who would’ve naturally go out to vote simply engage the mail citing different reasons as it can be validated by the COVID19 concerns.

Note here that in the history of America, there’s never been a National Election conducted this way as corroborated by investigative reporter for Govt accountability (Eric Eggers) and other observers of the times. The reason for the concerns are very lucid.

Just like we hardly trust civil servants in others parts of the world due to their witting or unwitting bureaucratic incompetence, America is also not immune to this. “No Govt bureaucracy is too big to fail when it comes to embarking on a BIG new project with little preparation.”

The results are always disastrous regardless of where you are in the world. Since you mentioned the earlier experiments of mail-in ballots in recent times at state level, the signs have always been there giving us a glimpse of the woes before us now.

Examine what transpired in WISCONSIN where they had the very first taste of this method of balloting in the primaries under the COVID19 era. The influx of votes via mail-in was evident and this brought about serious issues. Thousands of ballots were unsent.

“1600 ballots were found in the mail processing centre a day after the election. 23,000 votes were rejected based on missions information and signatures” amongst other technicalities. These were the few failings flagged in a single primary election in one state.

These are fewer voters in a state as against a general election. Look also into Pennsylvania where they even tried to delay primaries just to better prepare for mail-in ballots due to COVID19 concerns, they couldn’t measure up to the volume & crisis.

Half of Philadelphia’s votes were still uncounted a week after election. In Virginia, more than half a million applications for ballots were mailed with incomplete information. Some were mailed to wrong addresses, some went to dead voters & a pet even got lucky.

Observers noted that “under the best of circumstances the bureaucracy struggles with mail-in balloting” let alone under the worst of circumstances on a national scale where a disaster is imminent. There are also security concerns which no one can dispute.

In 2012, NewYorkTimes was credited with an assertion on traditional absentee balloting as being flawed— “There’s a bipartisan consensus that voting by mail whatever its impact is more easily abused than other forms.” Imagine the concerns with universal mail-in & today’s reality.

To buttress that, Eric Eggers went further to cite recent experiences with events of May 2020 in New Jersey when the state conducted its first ever All mail election. One month later, 2 elected officials were among the 4 charged with criminal conduct involving mail-in ballots.

An operative was reported to have confessed to stealing ballots both completed and uncompleted out of mail boxes. Others who are smarter compiled the database of signatures of prospective voters and then used them to fill up ballots on behalf of their preferred candidates.

All the above was only discovered because they were Apprehended. Election fraud gets easier with every new weapon in the cheater’s armory. Ballot harvesting is a possibility with universal mail-in balloting. Third parties exploit the vulnerability with ease.

Things will get further complicated and there will be countless lawsuits disputing results on a national scale. There will no doubt be civil unrest’s as frustrations and fear of stolen mandates grip voters. This is why I said America is lucky for their strong institutions.