SOME PLANS CAN WORK AND SOME WILL BE A DISASTER
EXPECT BOTH SIDES TO USE TO THEIR ADVANTAGE
Much has been made of the plans to have an unprecedented amount of voting by mail. Some plans have been thought out and can work much like absentee voting, but some are a recipe for chaos and corruption.
Plans that have the voter request a ballot and is then checked to see if they are qualified are much like previous absentee balloting. While they are more secure, they are already pushing the limits of election officials to be able to check and get these ballots out.
Plans that just send ballots to all registered voters that are presently on the rolls are subject to more mischief, as no one knows if they are alive, moved, or are placing ballots into other hands.
The worst are just dumping ballots to all addresses and letting everyone vote who can get their hands on the ballots. This is not really a legitimate vote. Maybe it is time for some sort of federal standard for voting in federal elections. It is unlikely anything will happen with that as long as the democrats believe that this gives them an advantage. Just wait until they realize that both sides will, if they can, abuse mail in voting.
Then the problem of getting the ballots to the election counters is going to be a problem, you can anticipate suits claiming that ballots did not get there on time and extending the post marks etc. Some judges will give them months to get more votes if they can.
Then the final counting, good luck with that. How many will have errors or be incomplete? We will need a army of watchers on both sides to hope to make sure there are no shenanigans.
In effect we are making a simple, tried and proven system of voting into a recipe for chaos and an undermining of our faith in our elections. This is probably just what is the hope. Destabilize and sow seeds of distrust in another foundation of the country.
With all these ballots floating around no one in the County will have the time or motivation to throw the defective ballots out.
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