Trump and GOP target ballots arriving
after Election Day that delay counts and
feed conspiracy fears
Associated Press,
by
Christina A. Cassidy
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/6/2025 10:00:19 AM
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it. Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at one of the main reasons for late vote counts: Many states allow mailed ballots to be counted even if they arrive after Election Day. The U.S. Supreme Court last month said it would consider whether a challenge in Illinois can proceed in a case that is among several Republican-backed
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
privateer 7/6/2025 10:26:43 AM (No. 1973487)
Imagine if one team was allowed to continue kicking field goals...after the opposing team had already hit the showers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/6/2025 10:28:55 AM (No. 1973488)
All right, dammit - it’s time to go back to the old days. Everybody votes IN PERSON on election day. Oh, you didn’t register in time? Tough. No voter ID? You shoulda thought of that three months ago. The only mail-in ballots allowed should be absentee ballots sent to military personnel or those with identifiable physical disabilities. Oh, you didn’t mail your absentee ballots in time? Tough.
Voting may be a right, but with that right comes responsibilities. If you’re not responsible enough to make sure your vote is counted, it shouldn’t.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma 7/6/2025 10:32:51 AM (No. 1973489)
No one has the RIGHT to vote. But you do have the DUTY to vote. Ya miss y our chance to vote, tough.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/6/2025 10:36:49 AM (No. 1973491)
They don’t ‘feed’ anything. They ARE the conspiracy to commit fraud and steal elections.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/6/2025 10:42:57 AM (No. 1973496)
The AP says 'there is no evidence of fraud" after paragraphs stating that ballots were counted after election day.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
volksford 7/6/2025 10:43:56 AM (No. 1973497)
This country has a huge number of simpletons who can't comprehend the term election DAY
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With several days of early voting in most jurisdictions there is little excuse for mail-in ballots.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Fosterdad 7/6/2025 11:23:27 AM (No. 1973511)
I used to work in a hiring unit for a state government agency. Every single day I received applications that had been mailed but which had absolutely no postmark. None at all. How can election officials know that a ballot was postmarked prior to the election? They can't, because at least 1/4 of all mail is never postmarked.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/6/2025 12:21:21 PM (No. 1973531)
Endless manufactured ballots are not "conspiracy fears", they are how Dems have been stealing elections for years now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
singermom9 7/6/2025 12:28:48 PM (No. 1973536)
Put QR codes or Number EACH ballot to stop Dems from CHEATING.
I say just ELIMINATE the dems like they want to ELIMINATE the Jews. Freedom of speech right?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/6/2025 12:38:26 PM (No. 1973541)
Good to hear the GOP is trying to fight the institutionalized disenfranchisement by allowing ballots to be received AFTER election day is completed.
The ballots aren't required to be validated which is disenfranchising the other ballots.
Notice Democrats don't bring up disenfranchising any longer like they used to?
Need to get the voter rolls cleaned up first which is always something today's Democrats fight against.
Wonder why.
Demand all voter registrations be cut off 90 days prior to the first ballots being mailed out.
Any registrations after that date will be provisional until verified and vetted.
Publicly announce how many registrations at that 90 day period.
All ballots will be numbered for tracking and tracing - will be same number announced at the 90 day cut-off.
All ballot collection boxes will be numbered with tracking capabilities (think FedEx and Amazon providing regular updates on your shipment).
All ballot drop boxes will have ATM style technology (camera) with only 1 envelope able to be submitted at a time which will be date and time marked.
A total number will be known that were deposited to ensure it matches the number in the drop box.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jechislo 7/6/2025 7:59:28 PM (No. 1973658)
The constitution says voting takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Period.
All of these mail in ballots are unconstitutional.
Period.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/6/2025 8:42:35 PM (No. 1973679)
I am 80 years old. For all of my voting life, on election day I went to the polls to vote. Results were known a few hours after the polls closed. There was never an issue until somehow mail in voting got started. It needs to return to what worked for so many years. I wonder how many democrats are in office that really shouldn't be there.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/6/2025 9:27:09 PM (No. 1973686)
"and feed conspiracy fears"
"I need some new conspiracy theories. All my old ones turned out to be true."
What was it.... seven states ALL stopped counting votes -at the same time- late on Election Night.
But some places secretly kept a skeleton crew 'counting' ballots late into the wee hours.
Some places received huge dumps of ballots.... all for the HairSniffer... in the wee hours.
Some places put covers over the windows so observers could not see what was going on.
The shredders did a land-office business right after the -'counting'- was over.
Court after court ruled that -apparently no-one- had 'standing' to challenge the HairSniffer's surprise win.
I am reminded of Lyin' Lyndon Johnson's 'lost ballot box' in an early race in Texas..... When finally found, ALL the ballots in that box were marked for LBJ.... and it was enough for him to win the election.
The Democ'RATS cheat.
There's work to be done.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
billa57 7/7/2025 6:42:06 AM (No. 1973735)
The cat's head is poking out of the bag, so the MSM is going to act like they didn't know a thing about what happened in the 2020 election, even though they were the ones who knowingly let it happen.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/7/2025 10:02:30 AM (No. 1973837)
Here are the rules as President Trump laid it out...only registered citizens can vote...one day voting and absentee ballots to military personnel...one day voting and counted at the end of the day...things are looking good for the mid-terms...if these rules are followed....will there be cheating..of course...democrats only survive because they cheat....my darling husband passed 12 years ago...but he voted for biden in Chicago...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/7/2025 7:15:08 PM (No. 1974111)
Get off my back; I'm signing as many as I can! /s
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Another case where the media pretends not to notice what is happening. Ballots keep trickling in until the Democrat magically pulls ahead - sometimes 3 weeks after election day.