eric76 said:
Obviously a Sock said:
The election was stolen. But it was not really stolen on election day. It was stolen in large metropolitan areas by Mark Zuckerberg and others putting up unmonitored drop boxes that were susceptible to ballot harvesting.
Susceptible to ballot harvesting? Unmonitored drop boxes is ballot harvesting by definition.
Ballot harvesting is the practice of someone else picking up your ballot and delivering it to the election officials.
It's legal in most stores to at least some degree.
Ballot harvesting leads to voter intimidation, coercion, forgery, and potentially even bribery. It is a massive threat to voting integrity. Democrats have well-funded networks of community organizers who have been and continue to be heavily invested in ballot harvesting (see Stacey Abrams, Obama's ACORN, "card check" in union voting, etc).
The same holds true for mail-in voting, or anything other than an individual being present in a voting booth and voting in private at their registered precinct, upon presentation of a picture I.D. Once the direct "chain of custody" of a ballot is lost, the door to fraud opens up. From Alex Marlow: "The more people between the voter receiving the ballot and the voter turning it in, the more confusion, the harder to verify, and the easier it is to cheat. You can see why Democrats tend to love it. Legendary California Democrat Willie Brown wrote in August 2020 that "Democrats own the GOP in mail voting"".
Democrats used the threat of COVID to declare that voting in person was no longer safe. In so doing, they completely flooded the system with a much less secure system for voting. The old way of voting in which a legal voter who was civically engaged registered to vote in his or her district and then voted in person worked fine for decades if not centuries. In cases where such a person were not able to show up on Election Day (NOT Election Month, etc.), that person was able to petition and receive an absentee ballot and exercise his or her Constitutional right in that way. There was order. There was signature matching. There was a process to follow. Yes, the process favored those more civic-minded individuals within the system, but it also protected against voter fraud. Again, see the Republican stalwart Jimmy Carter's Carter-Baker Report, oft cited by the Supreme Court, declaring mail-in ballots "the largest source of potential voter fraud". No small declaration from that Commission.
Carter-Baker Report. Building Confidence in U.S. ElectionsWith respect to the drop boxes, Zuckerberg and his wife donated $350 million towards the 2020 election, the centerpiece being Drop Boxes. Read the article from National Peoples' Radio below and see how they highlight the "benefits" Zuck Bucks were reaped in Philadelphia, of all places. Please recall in my original post that Pennsylvania ignored its own state's Constitution and amended its election laws. Absolutely deplorable behavior, yet it was done in the light of day with the backing of the state's Court system.
National Peoples' Radio on Zuck's Ballot Boxes[url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-from-facebooks-ceo-saved-the-2020-election][/url]It should come as no surprise that the Southern Poverty Law Center also purchased dozens of the drop boxes and placed them in Democrat areas as well.
SPLC Drop Boxes[url=https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/17/southern-poverty-law-center-paid-for-25-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes-in-fulton-county-georgia/][/url]Again, credit Alex Marlow and the research he did analyzing the 2020 election.
You can make the argument that ballot harvesting is fine. You can make the argument that left-leaning groups funding and placing unmonitored ballot boxes, largely in Democrat-heavy areas, is consistent with maintaining free and fair elections. You can argue that, where ballot harvesting was illegal, the presence of ballot boxes did not in fact make the process easier to accomplish. We just have a difference of opinions.
