Tweet

RepresentUs

6 Nov, 12 tweets, 4 min read

No, dead people don’t vote. Our election officials are there to ensure that. “Ballots of voters who have died are rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day” - MI SoS bit.ly/36qDqsP

No, Biden didn’t magically get 130k MI votes. ElectionDeskHQ had a data uploading error which has since been corrected, and the original poster of the viral tweet deleted it. bit.ly/3n0Azxb

No, 300k mail-in ballots have not gone missing. USPS workers are expediting delivery, and some data systems aren’t up to date. bit.ly/3p5ExXi

No, a Nevada woman’s vote was not stolen. When election officials looked into the case, she had submitted two ballots — illegally voting twice. bit.ly/3oXF6SO

No, PA election staff didn’t take the day off just for the fun of it. Votes could not legally be counted without convening a special committee — they had to wait for that. bit.ly/3mWqNw0

No, sharpies won’t discount your ballot. This rumor started in Arizona, but election departments there count all ballots, regardless of what writing implement is used to fill them. bit.ly/354VvNj

No, more people did not vote in WI than were registered. WI has 3,684,726 registered voters & 3,239,920 of them cast their ballots (and WI has same-day voter registration). bit.ly/38k7rNk

No, postal workers are not backdating MI ballots. The state doesn’t count any votes that arrive after election day, no matter when they’re postmarked. Election admins reject them regardless. bit.ly/3k4hrwk

No, the Trump campaign was not denied access to the counting process. Both campaigns were always allowed observers – plus, as of Thursday, they’re allowed to observe election workers from 6ft away. bit.ly/36fzafm

No, mail-in ballots appearing overnight are not illegal. Many states allow ballots to be postmarked by Nov 3 & arrive later. Votes appearing overnight are legal mail-in ballots & should be counted like any other. Many of them are from our military members. bit.ly/36c9Dnf

No, duplicate voting is not a thing. Reports of people voting twice or voting in a dead person’s name are overblown — a WaPo study found the rate of this to be .0025 percent in 2016 & 2018 general elections. wapo.st/3mSPKZc

This is why we have election officials. There are bipartisan watchers and systems in place to address concerns. Let them do their jobs.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

More from @representus

RepresentUs

@representus

22 Sep

The 7 Deadly Sins of American Democracy 👇

1⃣ Voter Suppression - Broad attempts to systematically discourage or restrict access to registration and voting.

2⃣ Voter Erasure/Purging - A flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists.

While updating registration lists as voters die, move, or otherwise become ineligible is necessary & important, when done irresponsibly, it is disenfranchising.

3⃣ Felony Disenfranchisement - The practice of barring individuals from voting based on prior felony convictions. These policies often have a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who comprise the majority of the current criminal justice system population.

Read 7 tweets

RepresentUs

@representus

31 Aug

We think of ourselves as Americans, as exceptional Americans. There's this idea of American exceptionalism. That shining city on the hill for the rest of the world to look to, and unfortunately, these days...

Lest you were thinking of leaving the US, fleeing somewhere else, well, too bad. The European Union, Canada, the Bahamas won't let us in anymore. Meanwhile, we've now got unmarked federal agents in the streets, we've got protests happening all over the country in record numbers..

Amidst it all, we are trying to hold an election & our means for doing so - by mail - is under attack too. I think that many of us are somewhere between concerned and, slide 10, deeply concerned. So what we're going to do is spend the next few minutes making sense of this mess.

Read 4 tweets

RepresentUs

@representus

9 Aug

Dear President Trump,

If you are afraid of a free and fair election and cannot commit to a peaceful transfer of power, the Constitution offers another way out:

Resign.

#DefendDemocracy

This is not partisanship, it’s patriotism. Since our founding, RepresentUs has staunchly supported Americans of every stripe whose love of democracy is stronger than their love of a political party.

We are conservatives and progressives who believe it is the fundamental right of every U.S. citizen to vote. Like every American, we despise corruption and self-dealing.

Read 9 tweets

RepresentUs

@representus

21 Jun

It’s going to be really hard to address any other issue - whether it’s education, healthcare, or criminal justice, unless we first fix America’s corrupt political system. Here’s how we do it. #justiceforsale #unrigthesystem

1) Ban gifts from lobbyists to politicians. 2) Close the revolving door between Congress and special interests. 3) Enfranchise even more voters with automatic voter registration and vote by mail, so politicians actually represent us. #unrigthesystem

These ideas are popular with both conservatives and progressives because it’s not about giving power to one party or the other. It’s about fixing the systems behind America’s biggest problems.

Read 7 tweets

RepresentUs

@representus

18 Jun

1/ America’s criminal justice system is broken and lobbyists and politicians have a vested interest in keeping it that way. They benefit from the system just the way it is. #justiceforsale #unrigthesystem

2/ Even though crime rates across the US are going down, America locks up 7 times more people now than we did in 1970...

3/ America puts more people behind bars than any other nation in the world, both as a percentage of population and in total numbers. More than Russia & China.

#prisons

Read 6 tweets

RepresentUs

@representus

7 May

@Jamie_Margolin

It's fine, it's fine, politicians kept telling us about coronavirus.

Many politicians will wait until the very last minute to keep the status quo - that's what happened w/ #Covid_19 and that's what's happening with the climate crisis. -@Jamie_Margolin Founder of @ThisIsZeroHour

@BenjiBacker

Climate change doesn't care about political party. We have to stand up as a generation regardless of the political parties we're in and urge for action. -@BenjiBacker, President and Founder of @ACC_National