80 million ballots are not requested, but sent out!!

[LuckyCharms]

According to President Fishlips, just now.

I'm surprised this guy's anus still functions since he sticks his fist up it every five minutes to pull out random lies.

[LisaL]

1. What on Earth is he talking about?

NT

[LuckyCharms]

3. I think he's speaking in tongues.

[FakeNoose]

2. I wonder how he would know

... since the ballots are sent by every individual county Board of Elections. The federal government doesn't print or distribute the ballots, nor do they count them when they're returned.

This is puzzling, don't you think?

[LisaL]

4. 80 millions is half the registered voters in the US.

Absolutely no way 80 million ballots were send out. Most states haven't even started sending absentee ballots yet.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Really? Seems like there'd be more than 160M, that's only 1/2 the population (nt)

[LisaL]

9. Yes. Give or take.

"In 2018, there were 153.07 million people registered to vote in the United States. Although this was an increase from 1996, when 127.66 million people were registered to vote, it’s lower than the peak of 157.6 million registered voters in 2016."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273743/number-of-registered-voters-in-the-united-states/

[2naSalit]

16. Probably because 80 million fake ballots are in the mail...

and sent out to just about everybody. No official state elections commission will be counting them but people might be fooled into using them. That's what I think he's ratting himself out about.

[FakeNoose]

17. If what you say is true

... then he's ratting out Uncle Vladdy.

Just sayin'

[2naSalit]

19. Exactly.

When he started screeching about universal mail-in ballots, it hit me that he and vladdy have a plan to send some kind of fake ballots to voters in the hope they will use those instead of the state authorized ballots for mail-in voting. He plans to muddy the water so to speak. People just need to make sure that they are not fooled by them.

[mr_lebowski]

5. There would some number of millions, probably not 80M but a lot ...

Some states have full mail-in voting, and more are moving to it. If the whole state is mail-in, then all the ballots are sent without anyone 'requesting' them, apart from being registered voters.

It's just not really a problem ... but the Cult45 wants its people to think there's a problem.

[LisaL]

7. Definitely not 80 millions.

80 millions is half the registered voters in the US.

[2naSalit]

21. in my state they are creating problems.

We have an AG who is elected separately and, in our case, a repugnican, who is happily filing lawsuits against everybody and everything election related from claiming his the D candidate is unqualified to objecting to Gov. Bullock's declaration that voting will be done by mail which means polls will be open in some counties so the bullies can show up and harangue people who are trying to vote as well as try to get poll workers to catch the virus. And he's running for some office again.

If there isn't a problem, they will do their best to create one or more.

ETA: About a thrid of the state votes by mail in the first place and all we have to do is check a little box when we register to vote. The Dems will request that you confirm that is still your preference every couple years. If you voted in the last election, it's automatic unless you change your mind. If you mess up your ballot you can get another if you turn in the spoiled one, even if you go to the polls on election day to do so. And you can bring your ballot to a polling place or the county registrar on election day.

[Doodley]

6. He should be asked if he will therefore reject the result if he wins.

[kentuck]

10. Because of the corona, they were probably sent to all registered voters?

wouldn't that make sense?

Unless, of course, you were criminally-minded? Then you would think of ways to stop your opponent (enemy), by hook or crook. You might suppress the vote. Make voters apprehensive about voting. Hire door-to-door workers to harvest the absentee ballots that were sent out but had not been returned. Help the voters vote the way you want them to vote. etc.etc.

[LisaL]

11. Eighty million ballots were ABSOLUTELY not send out.

Most states haven't even started sending out ballots.

[Wounded Bear]

18. In WA state, yes. They do just send them out to all voters...

registered voters, that is. But that is here, current population 8 million or so.

I know other states do it differently.

[murielm99]

12. In Illinois,

requests for absentee ballots will be sent to anyone who voted in one of the last three elections. Not ballots, requests for ballots, that have to be mailed back in order to receive a ballot. That is the law here.

[LisaL]

13. A lot of people seem to be confusing ballot applications with actual ballots.

NT

[Green Line]

14. In MA we also have to request a ballot, they aren't just sent out.

They'll be sent out for the General on 10/14. So he's full of shit as usual.

[mr_lebowski]

15. In OR and UT for example they are already 100% mail-in so you don't have to request ballots

in order to get them. Just have to be registered.

I believe a few other states (NV I think is one) are moving to 100% mail-in for this election.

In these cases ... what IQ45 is saying is technically true. Except for the part where they've already been sent. Oh, and the count.

It's just not actually a problem/anything nefarious. Oregon has been doing it for 20 years.

[Wounded Bear]

20. WA does it that way, too...nt