Discussion of mail voting and voting access for groups unable to vote in person: military and contractors abroad, students abroad, homebound and disabled voters, seniors, and voters distant from polling places. Posts state “Mail in Ballots is NEEDED!” and argue mail voting is “necessary and very safe.” One post addresses incarcerated people’s voting rights, saying “nobody’s voting rights… should depend on being law-abiding.”
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In the Western US, they just mail you a ballot if you are registered in several states because your polling location is basically on Jupiter when it comes to distance. It is incredibly convenient. Same if you live in, say, the outback with all the giant spiders or any extremely rural place.
Mail in's,will be the death of democracy. While he's got you watching polls, maps,and satellites. I still for the life of me deaux,not get. That someone can change how we vote in the year to cast your vote. Must less it be, someone running in this election changing the rules. Conflict of interest 🤔
Why do some people think they can make a convincing point by posing hypothetical questions that cannot be backed up by real evidence? (Even IF dead people voted, no one could know who they were voting for because in America, no one can link any counted ballot back to the person who cast it.)
"nobody’s voting rights, and I do truly mean NOBODY’S, should depend on being law-abiding."
I think the only “good” argument for people not voting while incarcerated is that they likely have limited information on what or who they’re voting for outside of the info packaged with a ballot. Even then, I support their right to vote, though.
Yes there is. The numbers are minuscule and does not have an impact on election outcomes(which is why you shouldn’t disenfranchise millions to try to stop it) but it’s not zero. www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
How elections are conducted is up to the Individual States,& to some extent, Congress. The Elections Clause: "each state establishes how it will hold congressional elections, subject to Congress adopting or altering the state requirements." H. R. 2987, the Email Elections bill, is still the law.
If we do away with mail voting, how will our military vote, students studying abroad, contractors and others working abroad, people who are home bound and physically unable to vote in person, voters who live where there is no polling place near them, etc? Mail voting is necessary and very safe. 🗳️📫
One consistent pattern of the GOP is limiting voter turnout. They can’t win a majority without lying or rigging elections and creating distrust in the electoral process. Polling places will be limited and long lines again. Democrats always want to get more people to vote - ask yourselves why?
So a thought I am having is that the people who say we will not out of this are right and wrong at the same time. He is my take, if we vote in such large numbers they can't deny. Which stops them and we can take the necessary actions that voting then gives us. But if we do show up we are screwed.
How would they know if they are dem or republican votes? They're in envelopes. I know you can open envelopes, but if you go to the early voting site, at least in my state, you drop them in the locked box there and it doesn't get opened until it gets to the Supervisor of Elections office. But if