Mail in ballots for the win

**Walleye Hunter** · November 9th, 2023, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by father-of-five

If mail in voting will make a difference, I will gladly do it in 2024. I realize I am over simplifying a bit, but I have problem with one party potentially behaving badly like the other. But I do realize the double standard of Democrats often assuming they won't get back what they themselves dish out.

What you would need to do is active your dead relatives on the voter rolls and mail their votes in for them.

**JenniferG** · November 9th, 2023, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Walleye Hunter

What you would need to do is active your dead relatives on the voter rolls and mail their votes in for them.

You also have to be the first one to get to the nursing homes and insane asylums to get those names from there.

**MikeinPhilly** · November 9th, 2023, 09:52 PM

I think once Trump is no longer running, either this election or after his potential 2nd term you'll see more R's getting elected again. Trump has been the kiss of death to a lot of the people he endorsed and shrapnel has effected many others

**mikelets456** · November 10th, 2023, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Delkal

It's because the democrats push mail in voting so they can fill out their votes at their leisure and mail it in weeks in advance. While republicans (especially here) think its a civic responsibility to go to the polling place to vote come hell or high water. I believe they think it sends some kind of message even though both votes count the same.

So why is everyone surprised mail in votes will favor the democrats? And please.....No secret conspiracy crap.

It's all ballot harvesting---they have 2 months to pester every Democrat over and over after they deliver their ballots. How easy is that---tell some teen all they have to do is fill it out and they'll do the rest. We will never win another major (statewide) election again. Heck, the proof is in this past election---off year, local with a President that has a 32%-36% approval rating---and they sweep everything? It's all co-opted and panzy azz republicans let it happen.

**ImminentDanger** · November 21st, 2023, 06:29 PM

Federal court rules mail-in ballots missing dates should be counted in Pennsylvania
By Alex Swoyer - November 21, 2023
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...issing-dates-/

A federal court in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that mail-in ballots must be counted so long as they arrive at county elections offices by the deadline, even if they are missing a handwritten date or the date is wrong.

The case was brought by advocacy groups and voters who did not have their ballots counted in past elections due to a date error. According to court filings, 7,600 mail-in ballots in 12 Pennsylvania counties weren"t counted for that reason.

U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter, a Trump appointee, said that counties timestamp mail-in ballots when they"re officially received, and that"s what matters. She said a handwritten date by the voter is not material or necessary.

"Whether a mail ballot is timely, and therefore counted, is not determined by the date indicated by the voter on the outer return envelope, but instead by the timestamp," the judge wrote.

The ruling went on to say that a requirement is material for ballots to be counted if it determines a voter"s age, citizenship, residency or felony conviction.

"Federal law prohibits a state from erecting immaterial roadblocks, such as this, to voting," the judge wrote of the date issue.

Mail-in ballots have long been available for voters in Pennsylvania, and new provisions were enacted in 2019 to make absentee balloting available for all registered voters in the state.

Millions of Pennsylvania voters used mail-in ballots in the 2020 and 2022 elections.

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are to be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

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**JenniferG** · November 22nd, 2023, 05:28 AM

ail-in ballots have long been available for voters in Pennsylvania, and new provisions were enacted in 2019 to make absentee balloting available for all registered voters in the state.

Millions of Pennsylvania voters used mail-in ballots in the 2020 and 2022 elections.

Correction for the judge. Millions of names were used on ballots in the 2020 and 2022 that have never be verified.

**archie19** · November 22nd, 2023, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by ImminentDanger

Federal court rules mail-in ballots missing dates should be counted in Pennsylvania
By Alex Swoyer - November 21, 2023
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...issing-dates-/

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so following simple instructions like sign AND date a ballot is a roadblock???SMFH...