NPR Poll: More Than Half Of Young People Lack Resources To Vote By Mail

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/8969...ns7GlPGvjpsLnm_fVpzC5o3nOA1tSZHgx6XTHU0e4wPVg

NPR has apparently garnished information from the public that voting by mail is fundamentally unsound.

Will the suppression artists now want some other form of accommodation?

Seems like the New York voting calamity has produced some very unwanted results...
So, lets just come up with a poll and say that voting by mail has flaws.

Somewhat profound that the poll was initiated by NPR.... But here we are.

 

Hmm ...

I'm looking at the "Vote by Mail" letter I got - well, IN the mail a couple days ago. I think the directions are pretty easy to follow. Heck, it even says "No postage required." so the idea that you need stamps is kinda absurd. Looks like the ballot itself will be printed out for you so the idea that you need a printer itself is - well, let's just say that I question NPR's methodology when I have this here paper in my hand telling me different. Now who am I gonna believe, NPR or my lying eyes? Or "Do you need to know where to find more information?" Well, geez - didn't Al Gore invent the internet? Use that. There's a link on my letter to use for more info. Is NPR telling me people don't know how to use the search function? People don't know how to use a phone either? There's a number on my letter for multilingual information. C'mon, man. Anyway, I think the picture I have ought to be the end of this thread - and the LW talking points:



Also, and this is just my personal observation, if someone doesn't know where to buy stamps they might just be too stupid to vote.

 

ONLY need a printer in order to send in multiple ballots, will also need a scanner.

 

I just heard Bernie Sanders interviewed on MSNBC this morning. The news anchor mentioned that a lot of young people might not know how to vote by mail. (I'm thinking, "What???")

Apparently if kids these days can't do everything electronically, they are completely unable to function in a "paper" world. Shake my head.



This article is about how vote-by-mail oppresses the poor, mainly, but includes the paragraph above about young people.

https://fortune.com/2020/07/20/2020-election-mail-in-voting-ballot-postage-stamp/

....on mail-in votes oppressing the poor....

 

Apparently some states are pre-paid post and others are not.

Seems like if someone can stand in line to buy a stamp, they could stand in line to vote at a polling location, or am I missing something?

We're living in crazy land.

 

First off there is absolutely nothing profound about NPR doing this poll unless those who thinks that has bought into the rediculous myth that NPR is some "liberal" Network. NPR is really pretty fair. Because of that inherent fairness the product of their fairness is most often the truth. The Trumpocity administration has shown that it is an enemy of truth therefore pro Trump people tend to dislike NPR.

One important claim that the article made was that young people do not know where to get stamps. In my opinion if someone does not know where or cannot figure out where to get stamps they must not be intelligent enough to be voting. Yes I know the excuse is that they live in a digital world so they must believe that all paper is good for is to wrap weed in or it's only good as an ingredient of toilet paper. Are us Boomers to blame since apprently we raised a bunch of idiots or lazy morons?

 

All you need is one stamp to mail your ballot, not a whole book???

 

Most super markets today sell postage stamps.

 

If the letter only needs to be postmarked by election day then there is no way to know the election result on election night, is there?

 

I am hardly a conspiracy theorist, but this sounds like it's setting the groundwork to claim new voters (turning 18 crowd) and seniors will not be accurately counted because the process this year will rely on mail.

 

The ones here do, but not less than a book. If the "kids" can't figure out how to buy a stamp, they also probably can't feed themselves, so probably eat out all of the time versus buying groceries.

 

Weird, isn't it? For 3.5 years, anything Trump is "for" Democrats are "against", even if they were "for" it 4 years ago.

Mail-in votes have been heavily pushed by Democrats, and opposed by Trump, and now Dems are starting to see there may be major problems with it, not fraud, but "lack of voter capability".

Or...yes, they are simply setting up "excuses" in case they lose.

 

Ugh. I'm all for pushing back on onerous voting restrictions but this one is a bit to ridiculous for me.

Google can show you how to use snail mail. If you can't figure out how to send a paper letter, I don't know what to tell you.

 

I'm sure someone will fill out and mail their ballot for them.

 

Anecdotally:

My boss's daughter went to college a few years ago at Texas Tech. Students were required to live in dorms the first year, at a huge expense. My boss bought a 3 bdrm house which also had a garage apartment in the back for his daughter's 2-4th year, and had her find roommates.

The 3 roommates electronically transferred their rent to the daughter and she transferred it to her dad, all with no paper trail.

My boss now has the house rented to 3 different people (daughter graduated and moved back into dad's house). None of the kids living there have a checking account, and it was like pulling teeth for my boss to teach one of the kids how to mail a check. One kid is collecting cash from the others, and paying a huge fee to get a cashier's check. We even mailed them pre-stamped and addressed envelops.

 

No doubt. They do door-to-door canvassing; they can do door-to-door voting.

 

What voting system is flawless?

 

Just putting this out there, if you can't do any of those 3 options, I'm sure you can call up the election board and they would come out and 1) take it for you or 2) take it where you can drop it off yourself.

 

Do they have plastic to pay with? Why not use a POS system to have them pay?

 

Generation gap. The kids are skilled with electronic only. My boss is old-school. He doesn't take credit cards and doesn't want his account number flying around to accept electronic-transfer deposits. If people want to live on his property, they have to mail a check or set up an automatic bill-pay service which mails a check for them. None of the kids could figure out how to sign up for electronic bill pay because they don't have bank accounts. They must pay through the a$$ in unnecessary fees when they have to pay for anything.

 

Only 17 states require postage on mail-in ballots to be paid by local election officials.

That means that local tax payers pay the cost.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elect...2-states-with-postage-paid-election-mail.aspx

 

The U.S. Post Office says it will deliver absentee and mail-in ballots even with too little or zero postage.





https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...-not/507-460ec1ff-20c7-4786-8fa1-5b8bdf81af4b

 

Then I suppose Trump will want to request more money and resources to help those young people vote?

No? Because trump is losing the young vote by extremely large margins and he only cares about helping his own supporters?

Shocking.

 

every form I get from the government that requires me to return it my mail comes with a return envelope with postage prepaid
so I'm rather sure mail in ballots are the same

 

Places you can now buy stamps.

Someone should ask Greta Thunberg where she could get a stamp and record that. She's a genius, right? That answer would be one for the ages.

Seriously, is no one teaching their kids the basics anymore?