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03 September 2020, 12:19 PM
wtg
More election drama
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President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by mail and once in person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results.

"So let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote," Trump said when asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in system in North Carolina, a battleground state.

"If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do," he said.

It is illegal to vote more than once in an election.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...mail-system-n1239140


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03 September 2020, 12:23 PM
jon-nyc
Barr did it yesterday too. He pretended he didn't know if it was illegal to vote twice.


They're setting up conditions to invalidate whole classes of votes. Literally creating some low level fraud in order to disenfranchise all mail in voters.


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03 September 2020, 12:31 PM
ShiroKuro
This is beyond infuriating.


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03 September 2020, 12:42 PM
pianojuggler
From what I understand, it is not only illegal to vote twice, it is illegal (a felony) to encourage someone else to vote twice.

Lock them up!


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03 September 2020, 06:46 PM
wtg
NC clarifies:

pj nailed it:

quote:
Voting more than once in an election is illegal and in some states, including North Carolina, it is a felony not only to vote more than once but also to induce another to do so.


And Trump doesn't understand how NC voting works:

quote:
Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for North Carolina’s state Board of Elections, said a person would not be able to cast two ballots, regardless of whether they voted by mail or in person first. The first vote that is received and processed is the one that counts, he said.

“Voting twice in an election is a felony,” Gannon said. “If you put a ballot in the mail, and it hasn’t arrived yet, and then you vote in person before your absentee ballot has arrived, your in-person vote will count.”



https://www.reuters.com/articl...person-idUSKBN25U0KK


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03 September 2020, 06:54 PM
Piano*Dad
quote:
“If you put a ballot in the mail, and it hasn’t arrived yet, and then you vote in person before your absentee ballot has arrived, your in-person vote will count.”


... and then you will be arrested.
03 September 2020, 08:27 PM
QuirtEvans
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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
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“If you put a ballot in the mail, and it hasn’t arrived yet, and then you vote in person before your absentee ballot has arrived, your in-person vote will count.”


... and then you will be arrested.


Imagine all the states Trump will never be able to set foot in again, for fear of being arrested. Hopefully, places where he has golf courses.
03 September 2020, 10:30 PM
pianojuggler
So, if it's a state law, I assume it's a state crime, not federal. Remember, the president cannot pardon someone for a state crime, even himself.


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