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As most of you know I try and be an equal opportunity bullshit caller outer. The fact of the matter is, that no state election is "official" until whoever is in charge certifies it. In the case of the President, all states have to certify (at least until one candidate gets 270)..
...AND the electors have to cast their votes. So it IS true that the election is not official until these things are done. So when a Republican says that, they are telling the truth. (If you say, "Yeah, but they are saying the vote was rigged, without much evidence," I will...
...ignore you, because I am NOT addressing that. I'm only addressing what I'm addressing.) That being said, it is (obviously) customary to consider the results unofficially "official" when the race is called and especially when the loser concedes (even though THAT carries no...
...legal weight either). It is every candidate's right to contest an election in any lawful manner they choose. As far as we know, besides the bullshit talking points, Trump and company are contesting the election in a lawful manner (whether it's specious, frivolous, etc. or...
...not), which is his right. It's not easy for ANY candidate to accept a loss. Now, here's the part that many of you won't like, but as far as I know, it's indisputable. Every election has fraud and mistakes. The only relevant part is the extent, which is normally....
...inconsequential. They are overwhelmingly more than likely to be inconsequential in this election as well. But they do exist. They have to exist. It would be impossible not to. It is also clear (to me at least, but I think it is patently and objectively obvious and true)...
...that mail-in voting HAS to have more errors and fraud than in-person voting. Anyone can send in someone else's mail-in ballot and forge their signature. Clearly that happens. I assume it is relatively rare and it's probably not particularly biased (just as many of those...
...for Trump as for Biden), but there HAS to be substantially more fraud (and error) in mail-in voting as their is with in-person voting, which is almost foolproof. How much fraud and error is there with mail-ins? I've no idea but I suspect it is relatively infinitesimal. Maybe..
..a few thousand out of 100 million mail-in votes (or whatever it is). It shouldn't be too hard for state and federal governments to estimate that number. All they have to do is gather rather samples of a few thousand ballots and conduct investigations. They should be doing...
...that, no? Shouldn't we know the approximate percent of incorrect and fraudulent mail-in ballots, perhaps in every state, but at least nationwide? Isn't that...
...important data to have. So, given that it's a guarantee that there WILL be more error and fraud with mail-in ballots, we have to decide whether it's worth the price whether in a pandemic or all the time. I don't have an opinion on that. Every state should also be...
...instituting reasonable safeguards on mail-in votes balancing making it easy for people to vote and making sure it IS reasonably safe. This should not be a partisan issue, if people were reasonable, rational, and relatively unbiased. That's pretty much it. My principle point...
...is that unlike Charlottesville, there is a lot of bullshit on BOTH sides when it comes to elections, voting, and especially mail-in voting. Please try and see both sides when it comes to things that don't have a definitive answer, and please try and ascertain THE TRUTH...
..when it comes to things that do have a (relatively) definitive answer, without favor to one ideology or another.
