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    From Utopian Galt@VERT/BEERS20 to All on Fri Jul 17 08:50:00 2026
    Vote by mail is abused. It leads to chain of custody issues. It leads to stuff like ballot harvesting. People should be voting at the polling stations even if its early voting (up to 10 business days prior to the election)

    Also we need ballot papers to be highly secure like our paper money. We don't want China or any other nation to circumvent our election at the same time.

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Utopian Galt on Fri Jul 17 15:26:49 2026
    Re: Vote by Mail
    By: Utopian Galt to All on Fri Jul 17 2026 08:50 am

    Vote by mail is abused. It leads to chain of custody issues. It leads to stuff like ballot harvesting. People should be voting at the polling stations even if its early voting (up to 10 business days prior to the election)

    You got any evidence to back up these claims there, buddy? Because I keep seeing claims like this, yet no one seems to be able to show any kind of fraud via mail-in ballots.

    Even your God-Emperor MAGA-daddy voted via mail-in ballot quite recently.

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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to DaiTengu on Fri Jul 17 18:25:00 2026
    You got any evidence to back up these claims there, buddy? Because I keep seeing claims like this, yet no one seems to be able to show any
    kind of fraud via mail-in ballots.

    Even your God-Emperor MAGA-daddy voted via mail-in ballot quite
    recently.

    There is tons of evidence from the past several voting cycles showing the issues w/ [blanket] mail-in voting. Its in plain sight - sure, if you ASK for mail-in and register correctly I have nothing against that... but blanket mail-in, like in Oregon, leads to all sorts of issues, fraud, abuse and just isn't good.

    TBH, with where we are with technology I'd support an ID-based electronic voting system - any way(s) that can't easily be abused like blanket mail-in.

    ONE way is the old system - vote in person, with ID... another would be to design a new security focused app-based system where voters must show their govt ID [preferably electronic!], live human verification and place votes electronically after safeguards are passed - this would give us [better than] the old way results the same night as a POTUS race and usher us into the future in a way that can't be abused.

    But what do I know... blanket mail-in is so bad - take a zip code, and throw away all the [republican/democrat area] votes... head of household fills out all ballots with their choice... extra ballots are dropped at election boxes - etc, etc, etc.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to paulie420 on Sat Jul 18 18:27:04 2026
    Re: Re: Vote by Mail
    By: paulie420 to DaiTengu on Fri Jul 17 2026 06:25 pm

    You got any evidence to back up these claims there, buddy? Because I keep seeing claims like this, yet no one seems to be able to show any kind of fraud via mail-in ballots.

    Even your God-Emperor MAGA-daddy voted via mail-in ballot quite recently.

    There is tons of evidence from the past several voting cycles showing the issues w/ [blanket] mail-in voting. Its in plain sight - sure, if you ASK for > mail-in and register correctly I have nothing against that... but blanket
    mail-in, like in Oregon, leads to all sorts of issues, fraud, abuse and just


    our entire system of voting is horrible and open to fraud, domestic and otherwise. i'm a victim of voter fraud. someone was voting under my name for Years in my home town. We had people committing fraud on video as well.

    During the first trump election i had coworkers who were getting multiple mail in ballots under other people's names delivered. they had mailmen on video who Were selling them too.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Utopian Galt on Sun Jul 19 08:17:08 2026
    Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

    Vote by mail is abused. It leads to chain of custody issues. It leads
    to stuff like ballot harvesting. People should be voting at the polling stations even if its early voting (up to 10 business days prior to the election)

    If it's good enough for politicians, it should be good enough for us.


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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 20 16:13:22 2026
    Re: Re: Vote by Mail
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Sun Jul 19 2026 08:17 am


    If it's good enough for politicians, it should be good enough for us.

    WTF

    What sort of argument is that?

    Lots of things are GREAT for politicians but screw the common man hard as fuck.


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