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Over/under on whether we'll hear about how vote by mail is a corporatist trick on Wednesday? (Original Post) Recursion May 2016 OP
It would hardly take a genius to substitute mail in ballots. Just money. Skwmom May 2016 #1
Um, mail in is the most secure you can get. joshcryer May 2016 #5
And Washington state has it, and it's... scscholar May 2016 #9
Hillary chances of winning are 50-50 nt firebrand80 May 2016 #2
I'd give an edge to Sanders, but who knows? Recursion May 2016 #3
Probably a 1-2 delegate gain either way firebrand80 May 2016 #6
depends on who wins JI7 May 2016 #4
Depends on how the scanners are programmed. sadoldgirl May 2016 #7
I twirled my moustache while filling mine out for CA. Starry Messenger May 2016 #8
Of course no one loses an election, the loser's election was stolen or rigged Ohioblue22 May 2016 #10
I doubt it, we already get tons of flipped ballots with rigged machines larkrake May 2016 #11
I love vote by mail. LWolf May 2016 #12

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
5. Um, mail in is the most secure you can get.
Sun May 15, 2016, 05:07 PM
May 2016

Oregon has led on it, and Colorado has had great success with it as an option. Gaming it is impossible, logistically speaking.

 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
9. And Washington state has it, and it's...
Sun May 15, 2016, 05:20 PM
May 2016

a disaster. Last election they admitted to calling most of the races when 7% of the ballots they admitted to receiving hadn't been counted. You just know there were many more than that "lost" before they acknowledged receiving them.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
3. I'd give an edge to Sanders, but who knows?
Sun May 15, 2016, 05:05 PM
May 2016

The way polling has been this cycle you might as well just throw a dart.

 

larkrake

(1,674 posts)
11. I doubt it, we already get tons of flipped ballots with rigged machines
Sun May 15, 2016, 05:33 PM
May 2016

Mail is the only way, yet if mailed ballots are read by machines, what is the difference? Well, the difference is a person does the changing, not a soulless machine. Hacking is so easy and corporations do that daily. They determine the future anyway, not voters. Oregon voters can verify their vote- it is the only true system

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