while not voter fraud, system capability must be examined https://twitter.com/i/status/1288567559021899782 https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/07/30/884321/ Pelosi Is Desperate to Have Mail In Voting, But Here’s Why That’s a Disaster Waiting to Happen One local news station was curious, so they decided to try an experiment to see what would happen if they did “mail in voting,” as CBS’s Tony Dukopil explains. They set up a P.0. Box to be their receiver and then went around to various locations all around Philadelphia and mailed 100 letters the size of a ballot and the same class mail to the P.O. Box. They then did it again a couple of days later with a second batch. All told, they sent themselves 200 ‘ballots.’ Needless to say, there were issues, as they found out. First, the Post Office had trouble even finding them. Then when he finally got what they had, he found that 21% of the votes hadn’t materialized after 4 days and from the batch that they mailed the week before, 3 were still missing. So that’s 3% of that batch who were just disenfranchised. As they note, in a close election, 3% can turn the tide of an election. Not to mention what happens if you don’t mail it early? Would it get there on time? According to CBS, in 2016, more than 73,000 out of 33 million mail-in ballots arrived too late to be counted. With mail in ballots, you don’t have that surety that you do with in person voting that your vote reached them in time. As it is, in normal times they have trouble. According to Postal Service recommendations, “voters should mail their return ballots at least one week prior to the due date.” However, nearly half of all states still allow voters to request ballots less than a week before the election. Setting up a significant problem, as election official Tammy Patrick explained. “So states like Ohio, you can request your ballot on Saturday up until noon for Tuesday’s election,” Patrick explained. “And that is the worst possible thing… you are setting up the voters with false expectations, and you’re setting them up to fail.” [….] When Dokoupil shared the results of the experiment with Philadelphia Commissioner Lisa Deeley, she said the results were better than she expected. After nearly 15,000 votes arrived late in Philadelphia’s June primary, Deeley, who helps oversee elections, said voters are right to be wary. “I can guarantee that I’m gonna get you your ballot, and if I get it back in time, it’s gonna be counted,” she said. “But I have no way of guaranteeing what happens in the postal service.”
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??? 8:46 AM · Jul 30, 2020·Twitter for iPhone ....LOL....this dude is so predictable. Sorry Donald but congress has the power to change elections, not the President. Also, the constitution is quite clear that your term ends on January 21st regardless. In fact, it is quite clear that Pence's term ends then also. If we do have not selected a new President by then guess who becomes President until one is selected? Nancy Pelosi. You simply cannot make this stuff up...
It doesn't matter. The Constitution does not require the Speaker of the House to be an elected member of the House! The House can choose anyone they want as their Speaker. And the Speaker of the House remains Speaker of the House until the House decides otherwise — which it cannot do until it has a majority quorum of its members elected and present. Until that happens, Nancy Pelosi would remain the non-voting Speaker of an empty House of Representatives. The Presidential Succession Act also does not require the Speaker of the House, as third in line to the Presidency, to be an elected member of the House of Representatives. The outgoing House could even clarify this with a resolution confirming Pelosi will remain Speaker, regardless of her status as a Congresswoman, until a new Speaker can be chosen. So, if: An act of Congress delays elections — which it can do, by law Too long for a President to be elected by the Electoral College in time — whose members must be chosen by statewide popular elections and not appointed, per the fifty States’ Constitutions And the States’ governors are unable to hold special elections fast enough to fill at least 50.1% of the House before January 20, 2021 — which the Constitution allows them to start scheduling after the House becomes vacant on January 3 Then, when the President and Vice President’s current terms end at noon on January 20, Nancy Pelosi would have a legitimate claim to being President of the United States.
