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RandySF

(59,206 posts)
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:17 PM Oct 2016

Trump Suggests That Election Officials Will Throw Away Mail-In Ballots

Donald Trump suggested in a speech at a Colorado rally on Saturday that election officials will throw away mail-in ballots if they don't "like" them.

"I have real problems with ballots being sent," Trump said, according to a transcript by NBC's Ali Vitali and Emily Gold. "People say, oh, here's a ballot, bing. Here's another ballot, throw it away. Oh, here's one I like, we'll keep that one."

Trump claimed that there are "a lot of people" watching election officials.

"We're trying to have some pretty good supervision out there," he said. "We have a lot of people watching you people that collect the ballots."



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-claims-election-officials-throw-away-mail-in-ballots

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Trump Suggests That Election Officials Will Throw Away Mail-In Ballots (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2016 OP
does this guy have any idea how our government works? rurallib Oct 2016 #1
He is unwinding our Democracy daily. We might not have a country left. Trust Buster Oct 2016 #2
He is so goddamn ignorant. madaboutharry Oct 2016 #3
What is he talking about? meadowlark5 Oct 2016 #5
This is based on a fake tweet about a postal worker throwing away Trump votes underpants Oct 2016 #6
But it such a stupid claim meadowlark5 Oct 2016 #10
He's exposing the FACT that x-ray vision is a union benefit for USPS workers underpants Oct 2016 #7
You don't need to know how the series of tubes work to tweet. Coyotl Oct 2016 #8
What a disgrace he is Marthe48 Oct 2016 #9
I suggest drumpf stfu ailsagirl Oct 2016 #11
When I took my ballot into the township office erinlough Oct 2016 #12

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
5. What is he talking about?
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:28 PM
Oct 2016

Is he saying the postal carriers are throwing away ballots? How would they know which ballot is voting for which candidate?

Is he saying that a mail in ballot is handled differently than an absentee ballot or one filled out in a polling place? He was in Colorado when he made this ridiculous claim. Maybe partaking in a little of our legal recreational weed.

underpants

(182,877 posts)
6. This is based on a fake tweet about a postal worker throwing away Trump votes
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:30 PM
Oct 2016

It was completely exposed as an actual joke at least two weeks ago. He knows that his crowd has heard it and never found out it was fake. He always gives them their greatest hits. That's his schtick.

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
10. But it such a stupid claim
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:34 PM
Oct 2016

It's not like the ballot selection is posted on the outside of the envelope. Are our postal workers supplied with special xray glasses to see through the envelope to see which candidate is selected? Or is he implying they're opening them in their postal truck and then throwing them away?

Sure he knows it's fake and most people do, but there are really dumb people who will believe it. Then they'll start harassing our postal workers and making their lives miserable just trying to do their job. All because of this stupid orange asshole.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
8. You don't need to know how the series of tubes work to tweet.
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:33 PM
Oct 2016

And if your little fingers can tweet, you are qualified for the most powerful job in the world.

Please proceed Mr. Trump, explain the world to us so we all know you don't understand squat.

Marthe48

(17,018 posts)
9. What a disgrace he is
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:34 PM
Oct 2016

Trump doesn't want to be president. He wants to be Papa Doc, Mugabe, Kim Jon-Il, Idi Amin, Lenin, Stalin, Saddam Hussien. But even if they were murderous dictators, they outclass Trump. I'm tired of Trump being exalted, when he is nothing but a cheap knock-off dictator wanna-be. Anyone who supports Trump hates America.

erinlough

(2,176 posts)
12. When I took my ballot into the township office
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:43 PM
Oct 2016

In my very tiny area (usually about 2000 votes cast) the clerk said people had been hostile to her asking how they could be sure she would count their ballot. This is a place where most of us know each other. She never said which supporters these were, but this is a Republican area.

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