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Sam Stein
@samstein
Election lawyers fear that this is an attempt to sneak a clearly fraudulently-cast ballot into the pool of legitimate post-election day mailed in ballots so that they could then get a court to invalidate the entire pool.
Sam Stein
@samstein
NEW Republican officials in Wisconsin sent an email to volunteers on THURSDAY urging them to contact Pennsylvania Trump supporters to get them to turn in their absentee ballots. This as Trump warns about votes coming in POST election day
https://thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-corrupt-post-election-day-votes-as-his-supporters-push-for-them-in-pa/
W/ @lachlan
9:16 PM · Nov 5, 2020
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
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Nov 5, 2020
Replying to @lachlan
Here's the body of the email that went out at about 6 PM eastern today
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
BREAKING: I've examined one of these emails provided by the reporter. It appears to be a real message, sent w @Mailchimp . https://thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-corrupt-post-election-day-votes-as-his-supporters-push-for-them-in-pa
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FM123
(10,053 posts)Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)oasis
(49,326 posts)Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)That requested a mail in ballot, that not only did not return it, but that kept it and the required coded envelope lying around and not already trashed?
Good luck!
However, just the idea being proposed by the State GOP should warrant a criminal investigation.
Maraya1969
(22,462 posts)????
Seems like stupid plan.
But then they always have stupid plans.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)uhhhh
leighbythesea2
(1,200 posts)With these people.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)in the mail until Friday, so you should accept Absentee ballots till Friday if people want to drop them off!'
And of course this will make sense to stupid wingnuts, but everyone else understands that they're ONLY COUNTING votes postmarked BY election day.
Absentee Votes turned in on Friday c/would've been filled out AFTER Election Day.
The whole friggin' point is that they're accepting votes cast BEFORE the polls closed.
And there's no chance the election officials are going to accept any such ballots.
Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)If they never requested a ballot, it would be tossed out. Are they planning on faking/reprinting the ballots and envelopes that are coded and printed to exact specifications? You can't just go to Kinko's.
Sugarcoated
(7,716 posts)Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
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tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)a mail in ballot was cast in her name and she did not send it in. I wonder some of these clowns thought they could do this to sabotage the mail in ballots? Don't think it will work.
Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)She retracted her accusation.
msongs
(67,360 posts)Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)MAGAs were told not to request ballots or use them, but to vote in person. Ballots and envelops were professionally printed and coded to exact specifications. You cannot just go to Kinko's.