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Seems one party roundly supports mail in voting and one party opposes

Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:11 am
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101996 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:11 am
Is there a philosophically innocuous reason for this dichotomy?

If so tell me what it would be?
Posted by FooManChoo
Member since Dec 2012
41870 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:12 am to
The left wants more opportunity for voter fraud couched in the auspices of social justice and safety. The right simply wants to limit opportunities for voter fraud.
Posted by MeatCleaverWeaver
Member since Oct 2013
22175 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:12 am to
The philosophy is Orange Man Bad.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
16673 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:13 am to
One party has a lot of voters who typically prefer to do things for themselves, another party has a lot of voters who like to have the government do things for them. Why would it be any different for voting?
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
27194 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:16 am to
Democrats do not now or will they every want fair elections.

Illegals voting, felons voting, no voter ID, motor voter....

The bottom line: If Democrats are for it, a fair electoral process demands we should be against it.
Posted by tiger91
In my own little world
Member since Nov 2005
36817 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:18 am to
I emailed my rep and pretty much begged him to vote against any aid package that includes mail in voting -- issue is will they even know if it's in there or not??

Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
40886 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:20 am to
The same party that wants mail in voting is against voter id. Think about that for a minute.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
119556 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:21 am to
This is the problem.

Democrats are characterizing election reform as just "mail in voting".

We already have mail in voting.

We really don't know the exact language they plan to pass.

But we can assume that it is pretty close to the language in California law that allows not only mail in voting, but same day registration, ballot harvesting and two weeks after election day dead line.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112793 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:23 am to
One party supports voter ID and one party opposes.
Can anyone see a trend?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
425838 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:25 am to
one side has a larger population of people who don't care about voting, individually
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
61457 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:26 am to
quote:

Is there a philosophically innocuous reason for this dichotomy?
Been wondering the same thing
Posted by SmashvilleTiger
Nashville
Member since Apr 2020
26 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:30 am to
One party is compassionate and wants to save the USPS and the other party is deranged and wants it to collapse?

That’s all I got ...
Posted by hawkster
Member since Aug 2010
6233 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 12:20 pm to
One party relies on the votes of a massive number of dumbasses, who are too ignorant to begin to understand what's in their own best interests. It is much easier to just collect their paperwork and mail in their votes than it is to wake them up, figure out which precinct they vote in, and haul their useless asses to the polls.
Early voting accomplishes the same objectives for that party, but mail-in voting allows them to frick the system right on up until election day.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
28084 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 12:25 pm to
2018 California and "ballot harvesting"
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
75107 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 12:31 pm to
They saw how well it worked in Orange County so they want to make it work in the big leagues
Posted by AggieHank86
Texas
Member since Sep 2013
42941 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 1:03 pm to
The Left is more concerned about assuring that every citizen can exercise the franchise, and the Right is more concerned about potential fraud arising from too-lax standards.

I doubt that anyone really debates these truisms.

The only real difference is that each side attributes ill motives to the other, while draping itself in a mantle of righteousness. Further, each tends to overstate the valid, underlying basis for its position and to minimize the valid, underlying concerns of the other side.
This post was edited on 4/23/20 at 1:06 pm
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 1:07 pm to
if everyone votes dems win.

gop strategy is to shorten voting windows and have few polling places in heavy dem areas.

theres nothing else going on.

if mail in is allowed voting will top 85%.

in all general elections rich people vote 85%.
poor, 50%.

that changes if you dont have to wait on line after working and making dinner.
Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
50568 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 1:18 pm to
Same reason the left wants you to have an ID for everything but voting:

They want to cheat.

End. Of. Story.
Posted by lsufball19
Franklin, TN
Member since Sep 2008
65532 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 1:26 pm to
quote:

Is there a philosophically innocuous reason for this dichotomy?

one party wants to be able to manufacture a winner in the election and will use non sequitur arguments to support it
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
22027 posts
Posted on 4/23/20 at 1:37 pm to
quote:

Is there a philosophically innocuous reason for this dichotomy? If so tell me what it would be?


Don't you know?

1 party doesn't care who gets to vote. They don't care if they are non-citizens, dead people, or even made up people.

The other party believes in 1 person 1 vote, and that person must be a citizen, plus that person must be alive!
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