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MineralMan

(151,607 posts) Wed Oct 3, 2018, 10:26 AM Oct 2018

How Many Trump-Toadying Men Will Mark Their Wive's Ballots? [View all]

This concerns me. With early voting, mail-in voting, and reason-free absentee voting on the rise, there are many opportunities for Trump-like men to simply mark their wive's absentee ballots as one more denial of their individual rights. When everyone had to go to the polling place and mark ballots or otherwise vote in a privacy-protecting booth, that wasn't possible. Now, however, it is more possible for someone to mark someone else's ballots.

I like the higher turnout these new election models produce, but I worry about the possibility of silent, coerced voting. How many more misogynistic, controlling men will there be who vote more than once by co-opting their spouses' or partners' votes?

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How Many Trump-Toadying Men Will Mark Their Wive's Ballots? [View all] MineralMan Oct 2018 OP

Those homebody subservient handmaidens are the ones home to receive the mail. lagomorph777 Oct 2018 #1

Not if the live with a man who controls everything. Rocky888 Oct 2018 #2

You'd think so, but many women married to such people MineralMan Oct 2018 #4

I know...actually all too well. My comment was a fantasy. lagomorph777 Oct 2018 #5

Yes. I sort of guessed that, but answered as if MineralMan Oct 2018 #7

Unfortunately probably too many. NT SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #3

That's what I'm thinking, too. MineralMan Oct 2018 #6

It's time for those women to stand up to their Taliban spouse. Hoyt Oct 2018 #8

That is so much easier said than done. MineralMan Oct 2018 #11

Agree, but there are lot of women who've had enough. See them here, on other sites, and in person. Hoyt Oct 2018 #20

How many women will allow them? Cousin Dupree Oct 2018 #9

As many as are afraid to do anything against their husbands' wishes. MineralMan Oct 2018 #13

Yikes! That's something I hadn't thought about. It gives flesh... LAS14 Oct 2018 #10

I live in Oregon where everyone has voted by mail for the last twenty years. I haven't jalan48 Oct 2018 #12

Well, you wouldn't hear of it, would you. Nobody knows, actually. MineralMan Oct 2018 #15

Anything's possible. To have thousands (millions?) of women forced to vote a certain way by jalan48 Oct 2018 #18

So the absence of evidence is still evidence? mythology Oct 2018 #28

Not without their knowledge and consent frazzled Oct 2018 #14

Consent that is coerced is not really consent, though. MineralMan Oct 2018 #16

I work at the Clerks office around ballot time and I can vouch that not only do some men mark GemDigger Oct 2018 #17

Do these people who do that get any jail time? Election fraud being a serious crime and all. Kaleva Oct 2018 #25

I am not sure. I go in next week to get the mail in ballots ready. I will bookmark this and ask. GemDigger Oct 2018 #30

Ok Kaleva Oct 2018 #33

Probably no more than the men who successfully convince PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #19

Ha,ha,ha snowybirdie Oct 2018 #21

Well, that happens too. MineralMan Oct 2018 #22

I have filled ours out for years marlakay Oct 2018 #24

Early voting is like regular voting, but a person simply vote before Election Day. Blue_true Oct 2018 #23

Any evidence that this actually happens? At least enough to possibly make a differance? Kaleva Oct 2018 #26

No. If there were evidence, people would face prosecution. MineralMan Oct 2018 #27

Can't prove a negative. Kaleva Oct 2018 #32

That is not exactly what I said. GemDigger Oct 2018 #31

So... sarisataka Oct 2018 #29