How Many Trump-Toadying Men Will Mark Their Wive's Ballots?

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14. Not without their knowledge and consent

Signatures on mail-returned ballots are carefully checked against registration signatures, and will be discarded if they do not match. So unless there are dishonest clerks who will pass through the ballots of known Republican voters despite a no-match on the signature, this can't happen without a wife's complicity.

As for non-mail early voting, that takes place at a polling place just like regular election-day voting. So there's no chance for that kind of fraud in in-person early voting.

Frankly, although my mate and I discuss major races and almost always agree 100% on how we will vote (with extremely rare exceptions for a primary in which there are several good candidates and we split our vote), my husband usually lets me do the research on down-ballot candidates such as "Water Reclamation District" (choose three); County Clerk; the fifty or so circuit and appeals court judges that always appear on the ballot, etc. After researching, I mark down choices on a sample ballot I've printed out--with notes for uncertainties or other possible choices--and he reviews it and uses it as a cheat-sheet when he goes to the poll. Is that dishonest influence? I think not.