MaizieD
Macadia
Three states in theUS have activated the National Guard soldiers as back ups to the police in case of civil unrest tomorrow. Something about burning ballot boxes. Why don't they have those boxes in a building I wonder.
So, the ballots that were burned are permanently lost. What a way to steal an election 😱
Mind you, surely those boxes must be vulnerable to being stuffed with fake ballot papers, too.
The American way of voting is truly bizarre..
Actually, no they aren't.
Every ballot has an unique identifier that the voter can use to track. The voters who used these boxes know who they are and the Secretary of State is working with them to determine if their ballot was destroyed. If it was, they will be given a new ballot or allowed to vote in person.
In my state, I get a text message when my ballot is received, when it is ready to be counted and, tomorrow, I will get a text that my ballot was counted. It is tied to my voter registration, but no one can ever see how I vote. Only what party I am registered to.
Because of the ballots being individually tracked, the likelihood of fake ballots being stuffed is minimal. Each county would know immediately if a ballot was presented that was fake. A bigger risk is having someone post a ballot that belonged to someone else. People have been caught voting for deceased relatives. But even this is minimal.
Contrary to what the Republicans would have you believe, voting in the US is secure and has been for a long time.
We have over 161,000,000 registered voters in the US. That is a lot of people to get to the polls and it could not be done in one day. We have to have ways to make it easy for the most people.
Now if we could get all 161,000,000 people to vote we wouldn't be in this mess.
