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Twitter attaches disclaimer on Trump's 'mail drop boxes' tweet

2020-08-24

They will be totally screwed if he wins...

[AlAhram] Twitter Inc on Sunday placed a disclaimer on U.S. President Donald Trump

...the Nailer of NAFTA...
's tweet criticizing the promotion of drop boxes by Democrats as an option for voters, saying the tweet violated the company's "civic and election integrity" rules.
"So now the Democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a voter security disaster. Among other things, they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. Also, who controls them, are they placed in Republican or Democrat areas? They are not Covid sanitized. A big fraud!" Trump said in a tweet posted on Sunday morning.

Twitter, in a disclaimer attached to the tweet, said: "Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the tweet to remain accessible."

Democrats across the country are promoting drop boxes as a convenient and reliable option for voters who do not want to entrust their ballots to the U.S. Postal Service. Republican officials in other states have prevented their use.

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 absentee ballots do require a person request them in advance and when the election board gets them they can be compared with record

It depends on the state, lord garth. Some require the voter to send in a ballot request, some some are sending ballot requests out to every voter they have on file, and some are just sending out the ballots themselves without waiting.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-24 13:18

#4 absentee ballots do require a person request them in advance and when the election board gets them they can be compared with record

it is not perfect and subject to abuse

but the Dems want at least two steps more - same day registration and voting and mass voting by everyone

Posted by: lord garth 2020-08-24 10:19

#3 By design, B.

Also, US Postal Service mailed-in ballot tampering carries a federal offense component.

This method doesn't.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-08-24 08:23

#2 Ref #1:....if you can go out to the drop box, why not to the ballot box?

My guess, only a guess. Drop boxes don't check registration or voter ID. No need for any of that, right ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-08-24 08:05

#1 Hadn't heard of such a device before this.

MADISON - Election officials in the state’s two largest cities are expanding the use of absentee ballot drop boxes this fall as an influx of absentee ballots is expected and fears mount about delays with mail.

Milwaukee is installing 15 drop boxes across the city — three times as many as it had for the April election for state Supreme Court. Madison will have 14 of them.

In both cities, officials say voters will be able to check an online portal the next day to confirm their ballots were received.

The drop boxes will help voters return absentee ballots faster.

Seems like it's just absentee ballots, with some measure of control. But if you can go out to the drop box, why not to the ballot box?

Posted by: Bobby 2020-08-24 08:00

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