Republicans are suing in Pennsylvania to try to ensure voters have no way of counting their mail-in ballot if it includes minor technical errors, The New York Times reported on Thursday.Furthermore, this suit, filed by the Republican National Committee against the Pennsylvania secretary of state and...
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    50·
    12 hours ago

    Seems super easy… You mail in your ballot but forget to sign the back. Here in Oregon, the ballot is sent back to you for correction. You still have to return it on time, but you are allowed to correct it

    They want to make it in PA so that the ballot is just pitched.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
        4·
        5 hours ago

        Correct, the signature is on the outside of the ballot envelope so the actual vote isn’t accessible until the signature is verified.

        • chingadera@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 hours ago

          Not trying to take a stab at ya, but is it verified or is it just a check that it exists on the envelope?

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
            3·
            4 hours ago

            When you vote, in person or by mail, your signature is compared with the registration signature on file.

            • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
              6·
              56 minutes ago

              Which is a joke anyway. Signature verification is something that should be abandoned. People don’t care about their signature anymore. Plus, do the people doing the verification get any sort of training at all? Has there ever even been a study to show how accurate such comparisons are?

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 hours ago

    You know, the irony is this particular kind of cheating impacts Republicans too; it’s not hard to imagine the type to make such errors are the uneducated rubes voting for Trump.

    • HamsterRage
      18·
      6 hours ago

      I think that the idea is that more Dems use mail-in ballots than Reps. Hand in hand with tactics like restricting the number of polling stations in minority neighborhoods, it’s just another component of putting their thumb on the scale.

      • Sabata@ani.social
        4·
        1 hour ago

        PA is potently close enough based off of 2020 where not counting mail in ballots could flip the state in Trumps favor.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I feel this way about all the meddling and bullshit that state actors are doing - Russia, China, Iran - are you really fucking certain that this isn’t going to fuck you in the ass worse than you’ve already been fucked? Really?

  • chingadera@lemmy.world
    34·
    6 hours ago

    Can we stop making posts containing the cesspool of a website raw story. Surely there’s another outlet that isn’t as poorly designed and needy.