Massachusetts changes rules to count DEAD
people’s votes this year, if they voted
before they died
BizPacReview,
by
Frieda Powers
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
10/8/2020 6:07:05 PM
New voting rules in Massachusetts will now allow ballots cast before Election Day to be counted even if the voter has died. The state legislature has changed earlier voting rules due to the coronavirus pandemic and will now allow the inclusion of votes by anyone who died after casting an early ballot. Any concerns about the temporary law and its impact on the total voting numbers were downplayed by Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin as “not a significant number of ballots.” “To be clear, these are people who are alive and competent when they voted, but they may have died unexpectedly after they voted,” Galvin said. Correction*
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 10/8/2020 6:14:59 PM (No. 566374)
The rats are really, really scared about being swept into the trash bin of history due to their really, really bad decisions and performance of the past 15 years. Especially the past 3 1/2.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
watashiyo 10/8/2020 6:17:54 PM (No. 566377)
Problem with mail-in votes, there are so many ways to be creative. Let's keep it simple. If you can't make it to the voting booth, "lo siento". Maybe good luck next time.
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/8/2020 6:28:58 PM (No. 566387)
I was wondering when the ‘Rats would get around to this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/8/2020 6:35:34 PM (No. 566391)
Taxachusetts is a hopelessly liberal dunghole anyway and if those people want the dead to vote more power to them. The dead will not have to live with the results they get. Why not count the Salem Pilgrim vote from 1620 on? Maybe those 16 witches they murdered can reverse the death penalty.
5 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2020 6:42:01 PM (No. 566395)
Probably will count votes for folks who did in 1940s, too.
6 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 10/8/2020 6:52:13 PM (No. 566399)
Ain't no biggie. Chicago's been doing this - and more - for a hundred years.
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/8/2020 7:04:20 PM (No. 566408)
Hey California, Massachewsit, New Yawk, Ring up all the dead voters you can find. Make an Election at Bernie's movie. Just remember the Deplorable Dregs Party slogan.
WE DON'T EFFING CARE.
2 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
John C 10/8/2020 7:04:32 PM (No. 566409)
On the MA ballot this year is rank voting, another demo trick to get more of there members elected.
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2020 7:08:27 PM (No. 566413)
In #5, that was supposed to be "died in the 1940s".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 10/8/2020 7:18:05 PM (No. 566423)
Here's the real reason:
Anticipating a flood of ballots, the expanded law in Massachusetts allows the processing of ballots as early as nine days before the primary and the general election, removing mail-in ballots from their envelopes and adding them in with other ballots to be counted.
This provides a legal reason for more chaos.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daria 10/8/2020 7:36:24 PM (No. 566433)
I thought Joe was ahead by 14 points. Why does he need the votes of a few thousand dead people?
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/8/2020 7:40:43 PM (No. 566435)
This is logical PROVIDED the state's computers know the lately deceased voter signed the current election ballot. But the computers do not include such information because employees (who are legally obligated to cull their voter rolls of deceased voters) do not even cull their rolls by reading obituaries published in their local newspapers. Far too many voter rolls include many thousand registered voters who died before the opening of the applicable election. Thousands died years ago. This inexcusable illegal nonfeasance in office is stopped only when mandated by court orders.
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
subman47 10/8/2020 7:53:43 PM (No. 566445)
I live in Ma. and I'm glad they changed the rules. Now if they could just clean up the problem of people voting after they die. That would really be a movement to a true democracy. But I won't hold my breath.
2 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Petronius 10/8/2020 9:21:58 PM (No. 566518)
I am certain the dead will be voting in record numbers this election.
4 people like this.
Same dead people Nancy sent stimulus checks ? It's 2020, can't We do better than this ?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/9/2020 6:52:33 AM (No. 566736)
The 'Rats have been trying to vote the dead here in Arkansas for years.
0 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 10/9/2020 7:41:13 AM (No. 566770)
I'm would probably consider myself as a fairly strong conservative but I seem to disagree with most of the posters on this. If a person voted legally before they die, then the vote should be counted. What difference does it make if they died or they were just out of town. It was a legal vote by a voter with reference to the current election, not a scam vote with a dead persons name.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/9/2020 10:22:55 AM (No. 566989)
There is a reason they have ELECTION DAY. If you are alive on election day you get to vote or your absentee/mail-in vote counts. If you are dead, you cannot vote and your absentee/mail-in vote should not count as you are not alive on ELECTION DAY.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
learner 10/9/2020 10:38:32 AM (No. 567013)
They may have died 200 years ago but we know they wanted to vote for Biden.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
KTWO 10/9/2020 11:49:00 AM (No. 567092)
Next they will mark ballots as the dead person would have voted. Soon afterwards the state will create - and mark - substitute ballots for people who should have voted but did not.
Finally this archaic and complex process will be simplified; the state will just mark all the ballots. And with perfect accuracy since the people's choices will be known in advance.
The cost savings from not printing, mailing, verifying, and counting will be used to fund re-education camps.
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