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Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone
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How mail-in voting works for those who don't know and need to explain it to idiots who believe people like Musk.
Where can fraud enter into that process? How is this going to lead to non-citizens voting?
The “fraud” is greater voter accessibility, which is always damaging to the hateful minority.
Multiple studies have shown that mail-in ballots have a very very low incidence of fraud and does not favor any particular party. That said, I'm going to put on my black hat for a moment.
With the exception of point 5, at the end of the day, you're changing one vote with the penalty being a felony and prison time. And it's absolutely a lot of work. So if I were trying to change the results of the election, the best place to do it would be as a postal employee that delivers to the registrar.
Again, the rate in which voter fraud happens is so low, this should be a non-issue. Does it happen? Yes. And the last few election cycles, it's been performed by people in the party screaming voter fraud, who have been caught.
Oregon has all vote by mail.
https://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/motor-voter-faq.aspx
Furthermore, when can the ballots be intercepted? By going to every mailbox in a neighborhood and stealing the ballots before the postal worker picks them up? Do you really think that's feasible?
Also, coerced voting can occur no matter what the voting method.
Given the determined nature of the MAGA party, I honestly wouldn't put it past them.
I'm not saying it's easy or even likely. I'm just saying it's possible. None of what I said should discourage anyone from voting by mail.
Remember that the long term goal of the alt right is to make seem voting illegitimate so that they can just install whomever they want.
Discrediting mail-in voting is just one part of their campaign.
Mail forwarding doesn’t apply to all mail btw. For example, mail from the dmv.
After moving to a new place, I was expecting something from the dmv (had sent in the request months earlier before I knew I was moving). I had the mail forward in place, so figured I was good. I never received it, so eventually I called the dmv and they told me their mail is not redirected with a mail forward, and would just be returned to them.
I am curious if the same would apply to official election mail.