No, they’ll say:
[ ] Donald Trump
[ ] Donald J. Trump
[ ] D.J. Trump
[ ] Dear Leader
(I didn’t know how to put spaces between the brackets.)
On thinking it over, it wouldn’t surprise me if Clark and Multnomah Counties do ballot exchanges with each other too. They wouldn’t have to, since Clark County is in Washington and Multnomah is in Oregon, but they may anyway.
Washington state has mail-in balloting since 2005.
For the 2016 general (presidential) election there were 74 possible cases of improper voting out of 3.36 million ballots cast. That means the overall rate of suspected voter fraud statewide was 0.002 percent.
For the 2018 general election there were 142 possible cases of improper voting out of 3.1 million ballots cast. That means the overall rate of suspected voter fraud statewide was 0.004 percent.
Try this:
Donald …
D. J. T.
(etc.)
Real ballot check-boxes!
Yes, and that often is due to voting in place of a recently deceased spouse rather than “fraud” as Trump is imputing.
I would not expect roving bands of brigands dumping water (or sulfuric acid) into drop boxes in politically-disfavored neighborhoods or otherwise vandalizing them. I don’t think drop boxes are left out unattended anywhere, or shouldn’t be anyway. They tend to be located at libraries, city hall, fire stations, police stations and the like.
You forgot to tell ThelmaLou how to do that: just put the brackets together, without the space between them
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All anyone has to do, to see how someone else did something tricky, is reply to it and see what was typed. Then cancel your reply.
Cool X 2! 
No suggestion of cheating. I believe in one person, one vote. Also, as long as I am have to be compliant with U.S. tax law, I am voting. However, due to my last place of residence, it is quite likely that there are a few hundred people voting from out of the country, as there are quite a few international companies in NJ. Plus there’s a military base in my county, and deployed military also vote in the same manner. I expect that this number is relatively constant, though I know many people decided to vote in 2016 who had previously not bothered.
I just looked at the main town in my county, and 1/10 votes were mailed in, in 2016. My township was quite a bit lower.
When I register (start with https://www.fvap.gov/) to vote, I have to provide the last four digits of my social security number and the address of my last residence in the U.S., along with my name, date of birth, current address, etc.
Also, as an overseas voter, I am only permitted to vote for the federal offices. That means I cannot vote for the county sherrif, state governor, etc. I think this varies by state.
And, trust me, the I.R.S. definitely knows where I live.
I discovered the same thing, hence the underline within the box.
And I don’t think Dear Leader would trust them to put the X in by his name. There is such a thing as undervoting, you know.
Which is what led to our current troubles. Last election roughly a third of people voted for Trump, a third for Clinton, and a third didn’t vote at all. I can only hope the Apathy Party has learned its lesson.
Agreed. I think it was something like 108 million people in this country did not bother to vote in 2016.
They cynic in me has often thought that the best way to repress Republican votes would be to simply make voting compulsory as it is in other nations.
How many of them were prevented–or strongly discouraged by not wanting to wait in line for five hours–from voting?
I also vote from abroad and print out my own ballot, complete with postage-paid envelope valid only in the US. This year for the first time they asked for a signature when I requested a ballot.
In 2016? Probably not as many as in 2018. And turnout improved in 2018 over past mid-term elections.
I understand your point, though. When Dems prevail in 2020, I hope they take steps to eliminate as much voter suppression as they can.
What century are you living in? Voter turnout has been in the 50% range for ten decades. Between about 1830 and 1920, the US saw ~80% turnout, then it fell off a cliff. Oddly, the drop in turnout seems to coincide with the passage of the 19th Amendment – not sure what to make of that.
Brilliant!!
Note I’m talking about percentage of registered voters who don’t vote and you’re talking about percentage of eligible voters who don’t vote. Two very different numbers.
The vast majority of members of the Apathy Party (ref @DesertDog) aren’t registered.
Plenty of military voters who are not deployed vote absentee in their home of record or state of legal residence which may be different from where they are currently stationed.
Another thing I must mention (I think I’ve posted this on the boards before), but one of the whines I’ve heard or read from certain Republicans is “they’re registered to vote in more than one place”. No kidding. Have you ever moved after you’ve registered to vote? I certainly have and so have a lot of other people. Did you ever “unregister to vote” in the old locale? Me neither. It doesn’t matter how many places you’re registered. What matters is how many places you cast your vote.
I once tried to do this. Or rather I asked if I had to. But since I’d just moved from one county to another in the same state, it turned out I didn’t have to. Hey, I’m a programmer. It’s only logical to unregister to vote when you move. If we programmed computers with failures to do the equivalent, there’d be bugs and crashes all over the place.
There are bugs and crashes all over the place. What’s that tell us about you programmers? 