Erick, Thanks for a very good post. There are lots of things going on in this election regarding verifying whether ballots are legally valid (or unlawfully submitted) and/or counting legal ballots without proper bipartisan observation. People from my area of the US know very well that large cities like Chicago and PHL have been run by De…
Erick, Thanks for a very good post. There are lots of things going on in this election regarding verifying whether ballots are legally valid (or unlawfully submitted) and/or counting legal ballots without proper bipartisan observation. People from my area of the US know very well that large cities like Chicago and PHL have been run by Democrats for decades and that not all of these people have honorable intentions regarding producing a fair and accurate election result. While it is harder to commit large-scale voter fraud with in person elections it is much easier to commit it with vote-by-mail elections. It doesn't take a lot of bad apples to spoil a whole bunch. And as John James statement about MI indicated, a few dishonest people can theoretically produce an inaccurate election result that disenfranchises the votes of a multitude of legitimate voters. The best approach is for everybody to wait until all fraud allegations are investigated, all lawsuits are settled, and election results are officially recorded.
I am currently in Germany and voted absentee in PA before I left at the end of September. I have confirmed with the election official for my county (Lawrence) that my absentee ballot was received and that it should be counted. But I checked this PA-gov website again today and it still shows my vote was not counted ( https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/ballottracking.aspx ). I sent another email to the head election official. I urge everybody who has voted in a critical state to attempt to verify if their ballot was received and counted. I urge Christians to pray for a fair and accurate election, as with this comment at the top of Kayliegh McEanny's twitter account: "GOD IS IN CONTROL‼️."
One last thing. The national election count is completely irrelevant to determining election results. The EC is not like the BCS and it doesn't reward states for running up the score. The one amazing thing about this year's national count is that Trump is currently at 69.65 M-votes, which is more than Obama's massive 2008 vote total of 69.50 M-votes. And Biden has about 4 M-votes more than that. So there is potential reason to consider whether the vote counts have been inflated by ballots that were not submitted by legal voters, and therefore should not be counted. But potential reason and/or anecdotal evidence needs to be evaluated by a fair and honest legal process before drawing conclusions and making definitive statements about who won this election when all legal votes and only all legal votes are counted.
This is what my message from the PA voters service website said: "We are unable to match your information with our records. You may edit your information and try your search again or you may contact your county election office to confirm the status of your ballot." However on election eve, my brother got a last-minute mail (temporarily forwarded from my house) that was from the Lawrence County Election Board saying, "The Lawrence County Voter Registration Office has recently conducted a review of the voter registration
records maintained in the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) database. It was discovered that your voter record does not contain a valid signature."
I emailed the signed letter back together with a copy of my PA driver's license, and a copy of my absentee ballot application, which the head election official previously reported to me as being received. This was the response from the LC head election official: "The letter asking for your signature is normal file maintenance and in no way affects the counting of your ballot. We will scan in your signature to your file and that will be that. " I believe in the complete integrity of this election official. But since he says my name is in the voter database for PA, the question is why doesn't my vote show up on the official government website for checking if an absentee vote was recorded.
I am 62 years old and have voted in every presidential election since 1980, so I didn't register at the last minute. The issue is if the PA official voter database is so obviously messed up, has it ever been safe to trust the accuracy of PA elections that use this registry to determine if ballots are legal or illegal? Or is it like the polls, which we seem to assume are a reliable way to set political policy, when the last two elections have proved that the polls are not necessarily a reliable indicator of what political policies the voters in our country want.
Our country has a desperate need to have uniform election laws that guarantee that each legal voter has the right to vote once and only once. For example, I have a residency permit in Germany that entitles me to many privileges such as the right to work that I don't use. But I have no right to vote in Germany. Each German Landkreis keeps an accurate record of all citizens and residents like me and only German citizens receive a card in the mail with a unique number entitling them to vote in person at their local polling place. As people move and or pass away, the local records are immediately updated, so there is not the huge problem with inaccurate voting roles that many states in the US have. As all things work together for good to those who love God (Romans 8:28), I ask all Christians to pray that this election may force Democratic controlled states to clean their voting roles and require that voters provide legal identification in order to vote (taking all steps necessary to ensure that anybody who wants a legal citizen-id can get one).
Erick, Thanks for a very good post. There are lots of things going on in this election regarding verifying whether ballots are legally valid (or unlawfully submitted) and/or counting legal ballots without proper bipartisan observation. People from my area of the US know very well that large cities like Chicago and PHL have been run by Democrats for decades and that not all of these people have honorable intentions regarding producing a fair and accurate election result. While it is harder to commit large-scale voter fraud with in person elections it is much easier to commit it with vote-by-mail elections. It doesn't take a lot of bad apples to spoil a whole bunch. And as John James statement about MI indicated, a few dishonest people can theoretically produce an inaccurate election result that disenfranchises the votes of a multitude of legitimate voters. The best approach is for everybody to wait until all fraud allegations are investigated, all lawsuits are settled, and election results are officially recorded.
I am currently in Germany and voted absentee in PA before I left at the end of September. I have confirmed with the election official for my county (Lawrence) that my absentee ballot was received and that it should be counted. But I checked this PA-gov website again today and it still shows my vote was not counted ( https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/ballottracking.aspx ). I sent another email to the head election official. I urge everybody who has voted in a critical state to attempt to verify if their ballot was received and counted. I urge Christians to pray for a fair and accurate election, as with this comment at the top of Kayliegh McEanny's twitter account: "GOD IS IN CONTROL‼️."
One last thing. The national election count is completely irrelevant to determining election results. The EC is not like the BCS and it doesn't reward states for running up the score. The one amazing thing about this year's national count is that Trump is currently at 69.65 M-votes, which is more than Obama's massive 2008 vote total of 69.50 M-votes. And Biden has about 4 M-votes more than that. So there is potential reason to consider whether the vote counts have been inflated by ballots that were not submitted by legal voters, and therefore should not be counted. But potential reason and/or anecdotal evidence needs to be evaluated by a fair and honest legal process before drawing conclusions and making definitive statements about who won this election when all legal votes and only all legal votes are counted.
This is what my message from the PA voters service website said: "We are unable to match your information with our records. You may edit your information and try your search again or you may contact your county election office to confirm the status of your ballot." However on election eve, my brother got a last-minute mail (temporarily forwarded from my house) that was from the Lawrence County Election Board saying, "The Lawrence County Voter Registration Office has recently conducted a review of the voter registration
records maintained in the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) database. It was discovered that your voter record does not contain a valid signature."
I emailed the signed letter back together with a copy of my PA driver's license, and a copy of my absentee ballot application, which the head election official previously reported to me as being received. This was the response from the LC head election official: "The letter asking for your signature is normal file maintenance and in no way affects the counting of your ballot. We will scan in your signature to your file and that will be that. " I believe in the complete integrity of this election official. But since he says my name is in the voter database for PA, the question is why doesn't my vote show up on the official government website for checking if an absentee vote was recorded.
I am 62 years old and have voted in every presidential election since 1980, so I didn't register at the last minute. The issue is if the PA official voter database is so obviously messed up, has it ever been safe to trust the accuracy of PA elections that use this registry to determine if ballots are legal or illegal? Or is it like the polls, which we seem to assume are a reliable way to set political policy, when the last two elections have proved that the polls are not necessarily a reliable indicator of what political policies the voters in our country want.
Our country has a desperate need to have uniform election laws that guarantee that each legal voter has the right to vote once and only once. For example, I have a residency permit in Germany that entitles me to many privileges such as the right to work that I don't use. But I have no right to vote in Germany. Each German Landkreis keeps an accurate record of all citizens and residents like me and only German citizens receive a card in the mail with a unique number entitling them to vote in person at their local polling place. As people move and or pass away, the local records are immediately updated, so there is not the huge problem with inaccurate voting roles that many states in the US have. As all things work together for good to those who love God (Romans 8:28), I ask all Christians to pray that this election may force Democratic controlled states to clean their voting roles and require that voters provide legal identification in order to vote (taking all steps necessary to ensure that anybody who wants a legal citizen-id can get one).