Legally, can Trump/Barr do anything about mail-in ballots?

You find the actual fraud, toss out those ballots, and prosecute those responsible. That's how it works.

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Thanks to Roberts, Trump could just write an Executive Order that mail in ballots are illegal in a federal election. After all, EOs are laws now.

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You find the actual fraud, toss out those ballots, and prosecute those responsible. That's how it works.

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Sure. How long does that take?

They won't be able to determine who voted by mail and then again in person for months. And, they won't be able to prosecute them. "I didn't sign that ballot. I didn't mail that in."

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hey won't be able to determine who voted by mail and then again in person for months.

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From what I've read, it's usually a pretty simple process actually.

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You find the actual fraud, toss out those ballots, and prosecute those responsible. That's how it works.

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On the scale we are talking about that will take weeks or months. Just look at the primaries in GA. They had over 1,000 people mail in an ABSENTEE ballot and then also voted in person. There is absolutely no way somebody does know they sent in an ABSENTEE ballot. Identifying this took a month.

Now extrapolate that out to all mail in ballots where mass mailing to unpurged voter rolls are common. It would be just like the Bi-partisan Carter commission said....to easy to commit voter fraud.

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From what I've read, it's usually a pretty simple process actually

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What's the process?

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You find the actual fraud, toss out those ballots, and prosecute those responsible. That's how it works.

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that's OK and all and will deal with the fraudsters in the legal/criminal sense,

but it doesn't solve anything in the political sense, where you could find out months later that the commander in chief shouldn't even be in office.

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You find the actual fraud, toss out those ballots, and prosecute those responsible. That's how it works.

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Except that's literally not how it works. Vote has to be certified by December. What you're proposing would take any 3 letter agency the rest of the century to uncover and prosecute.

Op, It wouldnt surprise me if USPS to be furloughed after dismal 2021 budget due to CV19. I also think they've conceded the presidential election in lieu of stealing House/Senate spots

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1,000 people doubled up.. out of nearly 2 million?

The horror.

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Don't be stupid. States like Michigan were extremely close in 2016. The numbers are not insignificant. If that happens in a red state like GA, what is going to happen in a state like MI or PA?

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When a voter shows up to vote in person, the poll book will typically indicate if the voter has been issued a vote-by-mail ballot — and may even show the poll worker if that ballot has already been processed.

States vary on what happens next, but voting experts say all states have checks in place to avoid voters casting two votes. In some states, a poll worker may be able to void the mailed ballot if the voter prefers to vote in person. In other states, the voter may be given a provisional ballot and election officials will determine if the provisional ballot should be counted.

Vote-by-mail ballots are verified before they are counted, and one check is whether the voter already voted.

“States have different processes, they have their own ways of making sure that two ballots don’t get counted,” said Myrna Pérez, the director of voting rights and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

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