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Post by jelloshots4all on Jul 30, 2020 8:26:33 GMT -5
until people are safe to go to the polls. What a freaking moron!
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jul 30, 2020 8:59:03 GMT -5
I really struggle with this type of crap from him--even after four years. Is he saying this because he thinks it's funny? Is he serious?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 30, 2020 9:01:26 GMT -5
I thought we need to open the economy. If so, then it is safe to go to the polls. But consistency has never been his strong suit.
ETA: although, if it is delayed, I think we get to say hello to President Pelosi. Maybe Bills can correct me if I am wrong
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Post by oped on Jul 30, 2020 9:25:35 GMT -5
Distraction from GDP.
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Post by azucena on Jul 30, 2020 9:31:35 GMT -5
This is the tweet as it shows up on fb "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote "
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Post by lynnerself on Jul 30, 2020 9:36:09 GMT -5
What is the reason that absentee voting is good and mail in voting is fraudulent? Just because we found out he absentee votes?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 30, 2020 9:40:33 GMT -5
Why can't people safely vote. Is there something going on in the country. The president keeps telling us that everything looks good, and that we need to open schools and the economy. Wait, you mean I shouldn't have trusted what he has been saying at his briefings. OMG, I am so disillusioned. We voted in 1918, we can vote now. Maybe he should do something to calm down the spread of the virus. Novel idea, I know
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Post by oped on Jul 30, 2020 9:48:58 GMT -5
Pompeo just saI’d the DOJ would determinehe legality of a president delaying an election.
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Post by bean29 on Jul 30, 2020 10:03:11 GMT -5
Pompeo just saI’d the DOJ would determinehe legality of a president delaying an election. You mean Barr? I guess we are screwed. But my thoughts when I read about his tweet, were, I would prefer to have the option to mail in my Ballot, but if my choices are vote in person or delay the election, I will risk my life to vote against Trump and preserve Democracy as we know it.
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Post by swamp on Jul 30, 2020 10:05:19 GMT -5
I would walk though a cloud of COVID droplets with no mask to vote that fucker out in November.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 30, 2020 10:11:18 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 10:12:02 GMT -5
trump wants the USPS gone and doesn't want any funding for it. So no USPS, no mail-in ballots.
DOJ is going to determine whether trump can delay election? WTF? It's not up to DOJ or trump. Only Congress can change that, and even trump's posse isn't going to go along with that.
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Post by oped on Jul 30, 2020 10:17:49 GMT -5
I want to believe this. But there have been so many other things he shouldn’t have been allowed to do...
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2020 10:18:40 GMT -5
This is the tweet as it shows up on fb "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote " Makes me wonder if I should tweet a replay. The owner of the location I work at though is a Trump supporter. Delaying the election would be an embarrassment and forever proof of corruption in the current administration. While I expect fraud to be on the rise because of who is in office, I nevertheless trust the mail over other Trump sponsored options. Congressional elections occurred in 1918 during the last pandemic, President Trump, do you really propose to do less?
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2020 10:21:02 GMT -5
Trump must really be scared to be this open with his disinformation campaign. Plan your life for January 2021 and forward out of office and stop being such a fake news spreader.
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 30, 2020 10:24:08 GMT -5
Article [XX] (Amendment 20 - Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy)
1: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. It clearly states the term shall end. It has a clear process for dealing with not having a qualified person to step in which weakens a claim that the incumbent would stay in office. It clearly indicates that filling a vacancy does not follow the standard line of succession. I don't know if there is currently in place a law passed by Congress for this situation. It should also be noted that Congressional terms would expire earlier in January. If no elections were held, that would mean no House and 35 less Senators (23 less Republicans and 12 less Democrats). That would mean no sitting Speaker of the House. Here is an idea: Article II (Article 2 - Executive)Section 1
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2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. Might state legislators elect the Electoral College?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 10:28:19 GMT -5
So, let me get this straight.
It's safe to go back to work and open up the economy.
It's safe to open schools.
But it's not safe to vote?
Interesting.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 30, 2020 10:35:09 GMT -5
Might state legislators elect the Electoral College? From the Washington Post article linked in my prior post:
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 30, 2020 10:47:28 GMT -5
Might state legislators elect the Electoral College? From the Washington Post article linked in my prior post: I wonder, but not enough to do the research, if any state constitutions have provisions that come into play.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2020 11:07:15 GMT -5
If he actually made moves to delay the election, what's going on in Portland will look like toddlers playing in a park. There will be massive social unrest.
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Post by kadee79 on Jul 30, 2020 11:12:23 GMT -5
It's John Lewis' funeral where 3 past Presidents are speaking...he is trying to distract from that.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 30, 2020 11:47:55 GMT -5
What is the reason that absentee voting is good and mail in voting is fraudulent? Just because we found out he absentee votes? I don’t understand what the difference between absentee and mail in voting? I don’t know why he is against either because the deployed military votes absentee and they tend to vote GOP.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 30, 2020 11:48:17 GMT -5
What is the reason that absentee voting is good and mail in voting is fraudulent? Just because we found out he absentee votes? I don’t understand what the difference between absentee and mail in voting? I don’t know why he is against either because the deployed military votes absentee and they tend to vote GOP.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 30, 2020 11:52:59 GMT -5
I really struggle with this type of crap from him--even after four years. Is he saying this because he thinks it's funny? Is he serious? I can see how delaying it would benefit him (if he can delay until a vaccine is ready, which will cause a bounce in the stock market) but does he really think Americans will allow it?
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Post by swamp on Jul 30, 2020 11:56:06 GMT -5
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 30, 2020 11:57:26 GMT -5
What is the reason that absentee voting is good and mail in voting is fraudulent? Just because we found out he absentee votes? I don’t understand what the difference between absentee and mail in voting? I don’t know why he is against either because the deployed military votes absentee and they tend to vote GOP. Because one is used by republicans who support him, and the other is used by those damn liberal states. Haven't you gotten with the program yet. Though in places like Florida, where a large number of elderly vote by absentee ballot, election officials are trying to thread the needle on this, so these voters do not mistrust the system. Just the trials and tribulations of republicans these days.
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Post by laterbloomer on Jul 30, 2020 12:02:09 GMT -5
This is the tweet as it shows up on fb "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote " No, "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history" is the one when he stole the presidency.
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 30, 2020 12:18:52 GMT -5
This is the tweet as it shows up on fb "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote " No, "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history" is the one when he stole the presidency. President Trump won the election in accordance with the rules in place. There was no fraud nor inaccuracy involved.
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Post by kadee79 on Jul 30, 2020 12:19:04 GMT -5
Mail in voting....like some states do now...every registered voter is sent a ballot. It's up to them to fill it out & return it. Some states have it pre-paid postage while others don't. But as a registered voter, you don't have to do anything.
Absentee ballots are by request only. That's the difference. YOU as a registered voter have to request the ballot. It isn't sent automatically.
For some reason DT & some others think that someone is going to print all the different ballots for every state that mails them so they can be filled in by anyone & mailed. Do you all realize how many different ballots are printed for each state....think about it....local city elections, local county elections, state elections & national elections. If there are 10 cities in one county and each city is having an election for local offices...that would be at least 10 different ballots in that one county or at least 10 sections on each ballot...one for each city & none for non-city dwellers. The reasoning for this makes no sense at all....even to many of us who aren't "highly educated"!
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 30, 2020 12:23:09 GMT -5
Mail in voting....like some states do now...every registered voter is sent a ballot. It's up to them to fill it out & return it. Some states have it pre-paid postage while others don't. But as a registered voter, you don't have to do anything. Absentee ballots are by request only. That's the difference. YOU as a registered voter have to request the ballot. It isn't sent automatically. For some reason DT & some others think that someone is going to print all the different ballots for every state that mails them so they can be filled in by anyone & mailed. Do you all realize how many different ballots are printed for each state....think about it....local city elections, local county elections, state elections & national elections. If there are 10 cities in one county and each city is having an election for local offices...that would be at least 10 different ballots in that one county or at least 10 sections on each ballot...one for each city & none for non-city dwellers. The reasoning for this makes no sense at all....even to many of us who aren't "highly educated"! And that doesn't include the different papers that they are printed on, the different security envelopes, the different mailing envelopes. Any discrepancy in any of those would be noted by those processing the ballots.
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