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How is anything about his hamfisted (publicly admitted) attempt to disenfranchise voters even close to cunning?

Maybe it’s because his party and half of America is also on board with it?

Be careful to not challenge people’s beliefs too much, they’ll get upset and start screaming about censorship

If someone can stand in line for the cashier at Home Depot and Whole Foods, they can also do so at the voting booth.

Mail-in voting has no tracking of the voter receiving the ballot and if a filled out ballot is counted. It also has no verification of who votes and no protection to make the vote anonymous.

Yeah, none of that is true. There was a recent article about how it works in Colorado: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/16/colorado-denver-mail-v...

I am talking about the "last-mile" problem of securing that the mail carrier getting the ballot into the voters hands and securing that the ballot gets from the mail box to the counting location.

At a physical voting location you know 100% a person gets a ballot and you track the ballot from it's put into the voting box.

As far as I can tell this process deals with neither of these problems.

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