Wow! How many new ways are there? Sounds like I’ve missed several. Could you provide some examples for an interested foreigner?
Out of curiosity, which new method(s) did you get labeled an election denier for questioning? What reasonable concerns did you have that were ignored?
Are you equally concerned about other aspects of fair elections, such as fair access to polling stations, fair voter registration, freedom from intimidation, etc.?
Rubber gloves could be explained by that pesky little pandemic, you probably have heard of it. I tried googling dropping off 20 ballots while wearing rubber gloves but only got hits for 2000 Mules so you’ll have to provide more information about that incident.
Regarding voting requiring “some level of work” and voters “should be willing to at the very least be slightly inconvenienced“, how do you picture that in the context of fair elections? Is it fine to burden certain groups of voters with more work? Inconveniencing them more?
Like i said, Election Day used to be an event. You could only vote that day and that was the case for a couple hundred years. In some states, if you had a valid reason like being out of town or being elderly, you could request an Absentee Ballot that you could fill out and mail in.
Then came early voting. I really don't have any problem with it except some people may have already voted when information about a candidate changes. Take PA for example. Early voting there began around October 1st. The debate is tonight. So if something major happens and you already voted, you can't change your vote. Can work against/for either candidate so as to fairness it it kind of a wash. Except for the voter who wanted to change their vote. I have done early voting here for years, but ours is in-person only at the Courthouse.
Then along comes no excuse absentee ballots. Anyone can have one for any reason. And this is where it can get sketchy. I don't think there are enough controls over this. The standards for matching signatures has been all over the place with some states strictly enforcing it and others not caring. And don't get me started with ballot harvesting.
I think anyone who wants to vote should be able to vote. But there do need to be some controls. I'm sorry, but if being asked for an ID is intimidating to you, then you need to grow up. You need an ID to do just about anything these days so the idea that people (mainly minorities) can't get one is BS. If everyone has to show it, where is the intimidation?
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Yes, the hits you are going to get is from
2000 Mules. I have some concerns about some of their conclusions. For example, they make a big show about how certain cell phones ping off certain towers near drop boxes and then near some non-profit. They are trying to make a case so I get that is what they are doing. They also really never explain how the mules get the ballots.
But while the cell phone data may be sketchy, one thing that isn't is the camera pointed at the drop box. It simply records what it sees. And that is where the rubber gloves come into play.
For the 2020 General, the cameras didn't really pick up anyone wearing rubber gloves. That was really only the case for the GA runoff elections in January. Just so happens that in Arizona a woman had been arrested and charged for illegal ballot harvesting between the General and the GA runoff and the proof was her fingerprints on the ballots. Now the connection is circumstantial, but it does raise questions. No gloves before a woman was arrested for ballot harvesting, gloves after. Is it proof, No. Is it something that should be investigated, yes. But ask a legit question about it and you are labeled an election denier. But only if you are a Republican. Hillary and Stacey can say their elections were stolen all day long and the media will celebrate them. A Republican asks how Biden who didn't come out of his basement for a year got more votes than Obama and you are the worst POS in history.
