Like the Obamacare/ACA confusion, we would be best served referring to mail-in ballots by their proper name: Absentee Ballots. The Occupant of the WHite House has encouraged GOP voters in PA and elsewhere to vote Absentee while excoriating the paper trail of Absentee ballots when they are the very same thing.
NC is the first to mail out ballots. A month ago, a week after I'd requested Absentee, the State mailed Absentee Applications to all registered voters. I think these freaked the GOPers out. They mailed *applications* to registered voters. They did not mail *ballots* to anyone, as the official ballots have not yet been printed. NC begins mailing them on the 4th, I believe.
That the *Ipresident is encouragingNC republican supporters to vote twice is unconscionable. He's advocating a crime. He whined that he really did win the popular vote because of non-existent fraud in California (it's always California, isn't it?? As a 40+ year Californian I know that the old adage still applies: as goes California, so goes the Nation. Newsom's decision to Shelter inPlace the entire Bay Area is just a recent example.)
It's absurd that we can't move to vote on line.
Yes, hacking, but there must be away to set up voting on line. Banks are secure, and if we wanted to, we'd make voting more accessible.
This North Carolinian will be voting as soon as the ballot gets here, and then I will be driving it to the registrar's office and dropping it of in person. Making Mr. Oh Nette do the same.
courage!
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