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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/trump-campaign-nevada-mail-in-ballots/index.html
Interesting argument about vote rigging and using mail ballots. If you
have the time to watch it, please do so, because it is quite funny.
Absolutely no evidence for mail fraud which has affected the outcome of
an election, except one which was done by a Republican!. One of the
problems with using electronic voting in the polling stations is if
there isn't a paper record kept and also given to the voter when they
vote, then the software is so poor that the votes can be interfered with
and this has happened quite a lot in the past. I think that what the
fear is from the Republicans, is that people who normally wouldn't get
round to voting or can't vote for some reason, but who would like to
vote, can use mail voting and that those voters are more likely to vote
for the Democrats...After 200 years, one would have thought that the
world's greatest democracy and which is always teaching the rest of the
world how democratic it is, would have sorted out its voting system by
this time...but no... Ah! Well! Maybe next time...now what was that that
the US government was saying about our adversaries and enemies...Oh!
Yes! Their voting systems are riggged...where they have them...You
couldn't make it up!;-)
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(CNN)The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of
Nevada over its plan to send absentee ballots to all active voters this
November in a major expansion of mail-in voting in the battleground state.
"The RNC has a vital interest in protecting the ability of Republican
voters to cast, and Republican candidates to receive, effective votes in
Nevada elections and elsewhere," the lawsuit, filed by the Trump
campaign, the Republican National Committee and the Nevada Republican
Party, said.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the country,
some states have looked to expand mail-in voting options ahead of
November's election. President Donald Trump, however, has falsely
claimed that expanded mail-in voting will lead to fraud in the election.
As CNN has previously reported, voting-by-mail rarely results in fraud
CNN has reached out to Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, whose
office oversees elections in the state, for comment on the lawsuit.
The Democratic-controlled Nevada state legislature passed a sweeping
election bill along party lines over the weekend, and Gov. Steve
Sisolak, a Democrat, signed the legislation Monday afternoon.
Sisolak said in a tweet on Monday, "I signed AB 4, which ensures
protections for Nevadans to vote safely at the November election during
the pandemic. During this global pandemic, I made a commitment that we'd
do all we can to allow Nevadans to safely cast a ballot in the upcoming
November election."
The legislation will allow election officials to send absentee ballots
to every "active registered voter" in the state. It will also extend the
deadline for when mail-in ballots can be counted after Election Day, so
mailed-in ballots can still be counted if they arrive one week after
November 3.
The legislation will also ease some restrictions for who can legally
handle and submit other people's ballots -- a move that Republicans
claimed could lead to voter fraud.
Cegavske, a Republican, oversaw the June primary where all voters were
mailed ballots. But she did not support the new legislation setting
similar procedures for November, The Associated Press reported. The bill
also took away some powers from Cegavske's office and moved them to the
Democratic governor.
Still, Cegavske testified at a recent state assembly hearing that there
were zero instances of fraud during the June primary elections, which
were conducted almost entirely by mail.
"The RNC also has an interest in preventing AB4's constitutionally
problematic changes to Nevada election law. Major or hasty changes
confuse voters, undermine confidence in the electoral process, and
create incentive to remain away from the polls. Thus, AB4 forces the RNC
to divert resources and spend significant amounts of money educating
Nevada voters on those changes and encouraging them to still vote," the
Trump campaign's lawsuit reads.
Trump previously criticzed Nevada's plan to expand mail-in voting and
threatened a lawsuit Monday.
"In an illegal late night coup, Nevada's clubhouse Governor made it
impossible for Republicans to win the state," Trump tweeted on Monday
morning. "Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes
without preparation. Using Covid to steal the state. See you in Court!"
In addition to Nevada, eight other jurisdictions will mail ballots to
all voters in November. Hawaii, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Washington
state had this plan all along. Vermont, California and the District of
Columbia switched to this method this year because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
CNN's Ellie Kaufman and Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.
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