Yes, it is a threat for sure. And just so you know the Republicans of NC just recently lost their case to remove anyone from voting overseas who have no proof they have ever resided in the state.
https://nsjonline.com/article/2024/10/judge-dismisses-part-of-hava-lawsuit/
In NC all absentee ballots have to be in no later than 7:30 pm on election night. NC is not one of the states looking to count absentee ballots beyond election eve.
But Military and oversea citizen mailed absentee ballots are given some extra time, (10 days generally) before canvassing, but these have to be postmarked no later than 12 pm on election day, But those overseas citizens and Military that vote online have to be done by 7:30 PM EST
I'll give it a gander.
Voting early locks in your vote before "they" can attempt to bring chaos on election day to keep you from voting.
What chaos you say? Everything from cybersecurity attacks, to having a county give the wrong paper ballot size (like they did in Maricopa Count) to keep Republicans from voting, to having gangs outside precincts (antifa, etc) to keep voters from voting.
Early is now. I wouldn't wait until too close to election day. Do it ASAP. I voted early last Friday a week ago before the weekend.
FWIW I am a poll worker in NC.
We have paper ballots given to voters after an ATV (Authorization to Vote) form is generated. This form has the voter's personal info on it, their precinct's, name, their political party (or not) and they have to sign that the info is true as well as attest to the statements on the form are true (one is that they are a USA citizen).
Each voter has a number generated on their ATV form written on the top of their ballot bc a ballot in early voting in NC is considered to be an absentee ballot (but one where you vote in person). The number records the precinct the voter votes in and the number of the printer that printed out the form and a generated number for that voter and ballot. We write this info on their ballot in a space provided before handing the ballot to the voter to vote. Once the voter marks their ballot, they take it over to the scanner which records how they voted. If they didn't over vote in a contest the scanner will tell them they voted. This info is all stored on a thumb drive.
As far as I know there is no way right now to manipulate your vote becuse the thumb drive in our scanner stays in the scanning machine with a protective seal and access by a special key until early voting is over. The scanning machine keeps a running total of all the ballots that have been accepted into the bin.
This data is no longer totaled before Election Day (new law this year) nor are the absentee ballot results added into the total votes until election day in our county.
Every evening these paper ballots are sealed into the blue bin then taken over to the county board of elections by our election director or assistant. These ballots are not removed unless they need to hand counted if an election result is contested. And are only removed by election board members with both parties present.
Every morning we have to check the scanning machine and sign off that no ballots are in the machine in the emergency bin nor in the new blue empty bin that catches the ballots that day.
Another thing I should add. When a poll worker in my county works the ballot table we are constantly updating the number of ATV forms the voters hand over to us to get a ballot. We make sure the number of ATV forms match the number of ballots that were scanned into the scanning machine. This is also another way to ensure accuracy of the count.
My thoughts are that a cheat can happen after the thumb drives are uploaded into an active computer. And that could happen on election day IMHO when the numbers could be manipulated in a main computer when it is transferred to the state board of election results. So in this case it doesnt matter when you vote if they could do that!
I suspect that with our voter ID in NC and everything else that was tightened up in our elections by our NC Republican majority state legislators we are less likely to have cheating. It can't be stopped completely especially if an illegal alien decides to register to vote and lies about being a citizen. But if that illegal alien does that and doesn't serve in jury duty if called due to being illegal, he WILL suffer the consequences then.
Noone has been stopped from wearing MAGA gear in my polling station.
Although, as a poll worker I am NOT allowed to wear anything political nor discuss anything political while working. We poll workers have to remain nonpartisan.
But I haven't removed my I love Trump button from my purse that is hidden under the desk when I am working there.
Rural and relatively poor red county in the Bible Belt. There is a large population of registered Dem Black voters in the precinct I’ve always worked on Election Day.
I’m always been the only Republican and only Caucasian working at that precinct. Met one of the Black chief justices early on when I started working the early voting polls that year and she must have liked me enough to ask me to work her precinct. I’ve been working that precinct ever since.
When I first voted back in the early 1970’s I had to ask my local election board to send me an absentee ballot to my college so I could vote when I turned 18. It was the first time 18 year olds were allowed to vote before that you had to be 21 years of age to vote. They lowered the age due to the Vietnam War (18 year olds were being sent off to die)
I dont know when the law changed that these kids could register to vote on their campuses, but if you ask me we should go back to having them request absentee ballots from their home counties.
They have made it too easy for them to register and vote on these campuses and now to help foreign born students to vote, too
If we went back to having them ask for absentee ballots I bet you’d only see the ones who really motivated to vote do so.
Yes. Rather than upset anyone who wishes to vote we do this.
But the final decision on whether or not that vote counts is up to the County Election Board made up of both Republican and Dems. So we don’t tell them if their vote will be counted.
These ballots are enclosed into a sealed envelope and do not go in the regular vote bins for that reason.
I’m comfy waiting to see what happens. The good thing is the election is almost here. I suspect there will be surprises along the way.
Buckle up. Anons. It could get bumpy.
Chances are the Podesta and HRC posts about them being arrested was just to get the anons attention to follow the posts.
He was given a provisional ballot.
As a poll worker in NC I was told if anyone insists on voting we give them a provisional ballot. We write the reason they were given a provisional ballot for the Election Board to also review.
It is not a poll workers decision to accept a provisional ballot. It is the County Board of Election. We have both Democrats and Republicans on our BOE.
Because he’s a satanist