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Home Front: Culture Wars
Vote by Mail because - Coronavirus
2020-04-10
[Dallas News] For the July primary runoffs, and perhaps the November general election, ballots that are mailed instead of cast in-person could largely determine winners and losers ‐ and change the way political campaigns are conducted in the coronavirus era.
Define "era".
The fight against the coronavirus has delayed the runoffs, originally scheduled for May 26, until July 14. But it’s unclear if Texas will have turned the corner in the battle by then. Residents could still be wary of going to polling places for fear of coming in contact with infected people.
Especially if such a fear suits your narrative.
Seniors have an easy solution. Texas law allows anyone older than 65 to vote by mail. Political analysts expect that group to be as important as ever, as many older residents are already accustomed to mailing their ballots. As of now, seniors, the sick and people with disabilities are the only non-absentee residents who can vote by mail.
So seniors will have an unfair advantage in the upcoming elections unless everybody gets mail in voting. Q.E.D.
Republican consultant Bill Miller said the coronavirus will have a chilling effect on the entire electorate.

"To get people to leave a safe environment to go to a polling place is going to be a hard sell," Miller said. "With voting it's always been ‘Do I want to be bothered?' Now this is an ‘I can get sick and die' situation. Many voters are going to sit this one out."
Even some Republicans can suffer from hysteria, so it must be true.
Posted by:Bobby

#5  NoF'nWay are we going to have no voter ID and mail in votes. I think the pushback by the left for having social distancing and keeping everything shut down up to election time is an effort to get mail-in-votes and no voter ID implemented. That would enable huge opportunities for cheating and rigging in the 2020 election. Trust nothing the Dems want to do.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-04-10 15:04  

#4  Remember the Card Check push under the previous administration? Imagine how (quote) efficient (un-quote) voting would be if everyone was counted as voting exactly the way they were registered because "Democrats only vote Democrat, right?". Of course registering for the political party that opposes the party in power might have, as the say, ...consequences.

It would make things easier for the people stuffing ballot boxes full of fake ballots from dead and imaginary voters.
Posted by: magpie   2020-04-10 13:52  

#3  MFS, 1 ballot.
S, 1 ballot.
MFJ, 2 ballots.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-04-10 10:27  

#2  Simple enough.
The IRS has a pretty good handle on who paid their taxes (I still have my refund, thank you). Easy enough to ballot ship and 'return in the self addressed, stamped envelop'.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-04-10 10:26  

#1  It's no wonder that there are so many allegations of fudging the numbers of deaths (sad that they are, of course) from COVID-19 (SARS-V2), not just from the financial angle but also to keep the "era", "narrative", and "hysteria" alive.

If this COVID-19 teaches Americans one thing, I hope it is to be a little less of a spendthrift. I wonder how many suddenly unemployed people wish they hadn't bought that 650-inch smart TV or blew their income tax refund or have credit cards max'ed out all that the loan-shark interest rate of a good 18%.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-10 08:56  

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