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Then why roll it out now? Why was it not the way we conducted all previous elections? Why did we require a modicum of effort for all these years when it was so clearly discriminatory?I have had this discussion with numerous Republican, Trump supporter, or generally anti-Dem friends. They make the same argument in various iterations. For example this one was made to me days ago: "There are people that live in apartments and they send in not just their ballot, but the ballots addressed to the three prior residents there because that's where the election people send them."
When I pointed out that he assumed that the resident was willing to commit a criminal offense and do that, that's three votes out of the total. I then pointed out that, for there to be some organized effort to tell people in apartments to do this is just ridiculous. It would be known.
There is no organized campaign to fabricate ballots. There would be no way on God's green Earth to keep such a thing secret. But that does not stop you, Trump, Barr, and their cult army of ignoramuses from touting it as a viable theory. Just ridiculous.
This is not some magnanimous act by the Dems to make sure everyone gets their voice heard. If they thought it would lead to more gop votes it would never be offered by them. Any honest person knows this to be true. No party cares about everyone's vote counting they only care that they get more. Any move is to further that goal