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Originally posted by kx90:
Heard an ad on the radio today, Shapiro the Dem candidate for governor in PA is now running ads trying to distance himself from Fetterman. Saying he does not agree with Fetterman and letting murderers out of jail.

Passed a big billboard on my way to work not far from my house in Berks Co

A older man and this caption:

I’m A Conservative
I’m A Gun Owner
And I’m Voting For Josh Shapiro

WTF???

Probably that same PAC

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by kx90:
Heard an ad on the radio today, Shapiro the Dem candidate for governor in PA is now running ads trying to distance himself from Fetterman. Saying he does not agree with Fetterman and letting murderers out of jail.

Passed a big billboard on my way to work not far from my house in Berks Co

A older man and this caption:

I’m A Conservative
I’m A Gun Owner
And I’m Voting For Josh Shapiro

WTF???

Probably that same PAC

Yeah I saw a couple of those. There is one on 95 and I think I saw one and I think there was one on the turnpike towards King of Prussia

^^^ but just like that picture of Obama with the shotgun, people see right through it.

The establishment is desperate to keep Mastriano out of office as he's a Pro-Trump Republican and all the RINOs are showing their true blue colors.

It is a sad state of affairs when your party's best strategy is to hide your candidate from public view until the election is over. It worked for Biden but they can't hide Fetterman any more.

This is another big reason why early voting should not be a thing.

We have an election day. It should be a national holiday where most businesses are closed and/or they give their employees time to go vote.

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Originally posted by kx90:
This is another big reason why early voting should not be a thing.

We have an election day. It should be a national holiday where most businesses are closed and/or they give their employees time to go vote.

I've said this all along. There are legitimate reasons for absentee ballots. Working out of state, in the military, etc. But if a person is too lazy to go to their local polling place once every two years, then they have no business participating in the process, period.

All these accusations of election fraud, stolen elections, etc, could be avoided by requiring a valid ID & voting in person.

I get an absentee ballot in AZ, but usually drop it off at a polling station in person. Thing is that our ballots are crammed full of so much stuff, it'd take an hour to complete it in a polling station without a cheat sheet. HTF am I supposed to know whether to retain or reject 40 local judges? I generally know what the various ballot props are about, but the wording on them can be tricky, so you have to read carefully to know if voting yes really passes or kills it.

I usually spend a few hours on my ballot at home, trying to research every judge, school board candidate, corp. commission, etc. Now I cut some time off by voting against anyone listed as a Dem or for any ballot prop they support. But there are still a lot of non-partisan elected offices you wouldn't know anything about unless you had direct personal experience with that office or court.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
I get an absentee ballot in AZ, but usually drop it off at a polling station in person.

I heard yesterday that you shouldn’t do that, because many states can’t or won’t accept absentee ballots and they make the person fill out a provisional ballot…

I’d be leery of that also, unless I was able to retain the original absentee ballot-I wouldn’t want anyone trying to say I tried to vote twice.

When I dropped it off for the 2020 election, I verified on the Sec. of State's website that my ballot had been processed. It's not some dropbox on the street. It's a polling station.

Around here, and probably everywhere nowadays, you can find sample ballots online. I'll sit down a few days before and go through that, looking up judges, initiatives, etc.... Then, if need be, I'll write up a little cheat sheet to take with me.

We have an election day. It should be a national holiday where most businesses are closed and/or they give their employees time to go vote.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FYI Federal employees get time off to vote already. Another Federal holiday is ridiculous.

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it'd take an hour to complete it in a polling station without a cheat sheet. HTF am I supposed to know whether to retain or reject 40 local judges?

You can try ballotpedia for your state:
https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Sample_Ballot

Personally, I use my states SOS (Secretary of State) website, they post sample ballots for my precinct about a month or more before each election. Even for primaries and whatnot. Download it in PDF, print it out, research candidates and ballot measures, fill it in, take it with me to the polls, and transfer my choices. Cheat Sheet

Here we go with this SHIT again

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Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman warned voters Wednesday that processing and counting election night ballots will take "days" to complete, and no final result will be posted Nov. 8.

Translation: "We need enough time to 'find' enough votes to get Fetterman across the finish line first"

Pennsylvania election official warns midterm results will take 'days' to process

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
I get an absentee ballot in AZ, but usually drop it off at a polling station in person.

I heard yesterday that you shouldn’t do that, because many states can’t or won’t accept absentee ballots and they make the person fill out a provisional ballot…

I’d be leery of that also, unless I was able to retain the original absentee ballot-I wouldn’t want anyone trying to say I tried to vote twice.

I believe that applies to "some" states with absentee ballots. I think AZ has both mail-in(AEVL-Active Early Voting List. Voters on the AEVL are automatically sent a ballot-by-mail for all elections in which they are eligible to vote) and absentee, and I don't think they're handled the same by most states.

Mail-in and absentee are 2 different animals(although a lot of people think they are the same, they are not), generally, and every state handles them differently.
Absentee vs. mail-in. A distinction WITH a difference.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Here we go with this SHIT again

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Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman warned voters Wednesday that processing and counting election night ballots will take "days" to complete, and no final result will be posted Nov. 8.

Translation: "We need enough time to 'find' enough votes to get Fetterman across the finish line first"

Pennsylvania election official warns midterm results will take 'days' to process

Yep...

After Sending Out 240,000 Unverified Ballots, Pennsylvania Now Warns Of 'Delays' Counting Midterm Votes

Here we go again...

Just one day after 15 Pennsylvania House Republicans sent a letter to acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman demanding to know why 240,000 unverified ballots had been mailed out ("which, according to the law, must be set aside and not counted for the 2022 General Election unless the voter produces lD," the lawmakers wrote), Chapman revealed that there will likely be delays posting the results after the midterm elections.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...arns-delays-counting

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:

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Originally posted by kx90:
This is another big reason why early voting should not be a thing.

We have an election day. It should be a national holiday where most businesses are closed and/or they give their employees time to go vote.

I've said this all along. There are legitimate reasons for absentee ballots. Working out of state, in the military, etc. But if a person is too lazy to go to their local polling place once every two years, then they have no business participating in the process, period.

All these accusations of election fraud, stolen elections, etc, could be avoided by requiring a valid ID & voting in person.

I would add that ballots should be paper and either marked by the voter or printed by the machine in readable form how the vote was done. The machines in use here in Dallas accept a blank ballot and the voter uses a touch screen to vote. At the end, the ballot is printed with readable notations of the vote and bar codes (one hopes they match) and is read into a counting box. If a recount is needed, those ballots can be counted by human eyes.

I am also not supportive of early voting, and demand that photo ID be used when voting. Absentee ballots should be very few and must have strong accounting attached to them.

flashguy

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Translation: "We need enough time to 'find' enough votes to get Fetterman across the finish line first"

They better start hitting up the cemeteries.

I love it


So @DrOz ’s campaign just sent out a release saying they’re sorry to hear the Fetterman camp was unhappy with the closed captioning in the first debate and are happy to debate anywhere he’d like a second time. Perfection.

They will not let Lurch near a podium again.

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Originally posted by PASig:
They will not let Lurch near a podium again.

How long have you been here?