It is in fact the whole government. It is the Republicans and the democrats, both. It is the ultra rich like Donald Trump and Jeff bezos and the Koch brothers... It is the massive corporations like ExxonMobil and Monsanto and Dow Chemical...
They run the show...
they choose who we get to choose from. I don't understand why so many people seem want to just blame the democrats when the Republicans are just as bad if not worse.
Trump may have
seemed like an outsider, but no matter house much people want to believe he was, really he was as much of an insider as any other ultra rich pieces of shit running these giant corporations that pull the strings, depriving the working class American from a decent job, home, and pumping them full of drugs to keep them numb and dumb. We live in a corporatocracy and plutocracy, fuck the republic and fuck the democracy. (Corporatocracy because corporations have been given the rights to act essentially like humans...although they arent punished like humans, at best they just get fined for killing their customers or destroying the environment like the many, many oil spills, knowingly causing the opioid crisis and ruining millions of lives.) It is all an illusion and none of our politicians give a flying fuck about helping The People. They are just happy to have no term limits and get insider trading tips to be able to make millions every year.
Fuck congress. Fuck the house. Fuck the shadow puppeteers that run the white house. Fuck the president. Fuck the local politicians like the mayor's and judges and state senators and legislators. All of them are just corrupt pieces of shit and again, they just don't care about us and never will until we drastically change the foundation of the System to force their allegiance to US and not the ultra wealthy few.
I personally did a mail in ballot and I didn't commit fraud. I know a LOT of people who used mail in ballots.
If I was expecting a ballot in the mail and didn't get it, I would be calling to ask about it. Also in every state I know of you can track your ballot in the mail online, so you should know when its coming.
Not to mention that they only count the ballot if the name and address match their records. In one of the local elections I forgot to put some detail on the ballot info, I think it was my zip code or something. They called me and asked for my info, verifying I am who I say via my driver's license number and birthday (last 4 of SSN+Bday was an option too) then asked for my zip code and were kind enough to write it on there for me so my vote would get counted.
So whomever is swiping ballots out of mailboxes (which is a felony) would literally need to know everyone's name and address that lives in those houses, then they would need to fill them out, including the witness information. This would take hours to do, and obviously people would realize someone was stealing ballots and report it.
I'm not trying to be ornery, I'm just trying to take a fair evaluation at what your concern is. Hopefully you are a little less concerned than you were before. It really would be more difficult to execute than people seem to think. The people who count these ballots are very serious about their job. They have to check the name and info on every ballot before they scan it. Also, in order to request a vallot to begin with you need to provide SPII data (like DL number, SSN, and birthday, etc.). They even check your SIGNATURE against their records. How the fuck is some ballot thief going to get ahold of all that information AND know how you sign your name?? The People scanning ballots aren't going to just willy nilly scan a bunch of ballots that don't line up with the voter registration records. They would get in HUGE trouble. As a mail in voter I can tell you the process of requesting a ballot, filling it out, and then getting that ballot counted--it is pretty fucking solid. I don't see any way that anyone could vote in my place without raising red flags and causing them to realize something is fucked up.
Honestly the electronic voting machines seem like a bigger risk to me. There have been multiple demonstrations showing how easy it is to hack and tamper with the votes. I would almost rather have a bipartisan group of people count my ballots by hand
Why I bought a voting machine on ebay.
Professor J. Alex Halderman has made a career studying electronic voting security.
What I want is a fucking receipt that shows who I voted for. Whether I vote by mail or in person I want that receipt saying my vote was counted and showing who I voted for. For some reason we have no trouble trusting the black box that is a voting machine, but as soon as people vote by mail because they didn't want to go to a crowded place a risk getting COVID, the losing side says it is widespread fraud.
For the record, I don't give a shit if they get rid of the ballot boxes. I don't see why people can't put their ballot in their mailbox and flip the little flag up. Or drop it off at a post office. Anyway. Thats all I have to say. Peace out yall.