Vote for Joe - In Person!
Hello Team Broken Glass,
Yes, you are all ready to vote for Biden!! Would crawl across broken glass to vote for him. Great! But will you do the one thing he needs to ensure victory? That is VOTE IN PERSON … VOTE IN PERSON … VOTE IN PERSON … (pass it on!)
Seems a bit dramatic — I know. But Trump has all the pieces in place now to fraudulently win again:
1. Convince Republicans to vote in person only (voting by mail is fraudulent!!)
2. Let Democrats expand their mail-in voting because of COVID
3. Election day results will then show Trump easily leading in a majority of the Electoral College (see NY 27th results below)
4. The flood of Democratic votes by mail will not be completely counted
a. The mail will “lose” them — see recent Postmaster General actions, or
b. The Supreme Court will stop the counting: See Bush v. Gore (holding that it is an equal protection violation for a Republican who is leading in the count to have additional votes because he might then lose)
5. Republican controlled states (FL, TX, AZ, NC, etc.) will then certify results without all mail-in ballots counted
a. If votes are “missing”, they will just go with what they have — what else could they do? No way to know how those people would have voted!
6. Donald Trump wins election and everyone spends years trying to figure out how people would have voted (if all those mail-in ballots weren’t missing)
Still don’t believe me? Look at the results from the June 2020 special election in the NY 27th. This is a Cook Report R +11 district, so there wasn’t much news on DK about it. But of the 43% of votes were by mail and they were very different from in person:
[I apologize for the size — not sure how to fix it.]
Note the stunning difference between in-person and by-mail: R +38 in person; D + 24 by mail
In the COVID environment, the D voters are much more likely to vote by mail (i.e., they are smarter!)
If this Democratic mail-in voting effect applies in other states, then a Florida D+5 vote will look like R+10 on election day. Do you think the Republican controlled legislature and governor will allow this lead to shrink to the actual result of D+5 by counting Democratic votes? A similar story can be told for TX & AZ.
Maybe NC and WI are different because they have Democratic governors — but do you want to risk this? Remember the legislatures in both states have been doing everything they can to limit the governors’ powers.
The bottom line is that focusing on mail fraud and driving R voters away from mail-in ballots will guarantee Trump an Electoral College lead on election day!
The 2000 election and all recent evidence then suggests that Republicans will not play fair and count all the mail-in ballots.
The only way I see to combat this is to vote in person. Use early voting or where your PPE and stand in line — whatever it takes — America’s future depends on voting in person. Crawling across glass now means doing whatever it takes to vote in person.
If you are worried about this, as I am, please rec this diary. The leaders of the Democratic Party are known to follow trending stories on DK and this needs to get out there. (Sorry for the plug — I have not done this before and promise not to again!)
