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Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating' (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’m quoting Wikipedia, so judge the sources at your discretion. Emphasis mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_States

Research shows that the availability of postal voting increases voter turnout. It has been argued that postal voting has a greater risk of fraud than in-person voting, though known instances of such fraud are very rare.

As of 2022, eight states – California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington – allow all elections to be conducted by mail. Five of these states – Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington – hold elections "almost entirely by mail." Postal voting is an option in 33 states and the District of Columbia.

In September 2020, CNN obtained a Homeland Security Department intelligence bulletin asserting ”Russia is likely to continue amplifying criticisms of vote-by-mail and shifting voting processes amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine public trust in the electoral process.” Motivated by false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, Republican lawmakers initiated a push to roll back access to postal voting.

I don’t understand how the so called SAVE act isn’t a constitutional states rights nightmare:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/

By its terms, Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, referred to as the Elections Clause, contemplates that state legislatures will establish the times, places, and manner of holding elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate, subject to Congress making or altering such state regulations (except as to the place of choosing Senators). The Supreme Court has interpreted the Elections Clause expansively, enabling states to provide a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.

It still blows my fucking mind that Russia has been actively supporting and encouraging the Republican Party’s representatives, policies, and philosophies as a hostile inside actor to destabilize the United States.

The right to vote is a fundamental founding right of the United States, and it forms one of the most basic principals of a self-organizing society. I remember when I was a teenager, thinking that voting didn’t really matter. Now, when younger people tell me the same thing I cringe like a dying star.

If voting doesn’t really matter, then why have they been trying so hard to take it away from us for so long?

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

I don’t understand how the so called SAVE act isn’t a constitutional states rights nightmare:

Why does that matter? I'm not from the US, but my impression is that the procedure is more or less:

  • Congress passes a law
  • States implement that law
  • Law is challenged as unconstitutional
  • Election happens
  • Law gets repealed
  • Election results stay the same

So you don't need a law to be constitutional as long as it's only supposed to be used for a short time, right? In this case, one election.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I firmly support mail in voting. I only do it when it's the only option, but that's because I came to the pacific northwest from somewhere where when you want to vote but are busy on election day you show up a Saturday or two early at a significantly less convenient polling place. Mail in voting was seen as for the very ill there. Also because I don't trust the feds to not fuck with the mail in votes at the moment