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How mail-in ballot rule chaos in North Carolina is hurting Black voters
CNN ^ | October 15, 2020 | Dianne Gallagher, Pamela Kirkland and Denise Royal

Posted on 10/15/2020 10:52:21 AM PDT by SJackson

Almost 1,000 absentee ballots are sitting in a locked bin somewhere in the Guilford County Board of Elections waiting to be processed.

At least two voters in Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County, had no idea their ballots were sitting in that pile.

incent Gager, a 48-year-old Black man, and his 83-year-old father Nathaniel mailed in their ballots on September 4. They wanted to vote by mail to avoid exposure to Covid-19. Over a month later, neither man had any idea their ballot had been listed as "pending cure" -- which meant there was something wrong with them that would prevent them being accepted.

The issue was with their witness information, one aspect of North Carolina's voting rules that's been thrown into confusion amid efforts to ease voting amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"I've been doing it the same way for years," Gager said of his father's ballot. "I sign his. I'm his son. I'm his witness. And no one ever said his ballot wouldn't count."

A mismatched signature or missing envelope can lead to mail-in ballots getting thrown out. But ballot "curing" is the process where voters can correct these mistakes, to make sure their votes are counted. States have different "curing" mechanisms -- some automatically notify voters about problems, while other states force voters to proactively follow-up with election officials.

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Statewide, Black voters make up only 16% of total ballot returns, but they account for almost 40% of the ballots labeled as "pending" or "pending cure."

Gager thinks what happened to his ballot has something to do with efforts to suppress the Black vote in the state. "They're just doing it in the open, deliberately," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: absenteeballots; cnnfakenews; fakenews; mailinvoting
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How do they know that? You don't your race on your ballot.
1 posted on 10/15/2020 10:52:21 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

That’s exactly the point.


2 posted on 10/15/2020 10:53:15 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: SJackson

Democrats were encouraged to vote by mail. I suspect there is a nefarious purpose for it like showing up on Election Day and voting again on a provisional ballot.


3 posted on 10/15/2020 10:54:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: SJackson

Blacks being disenfranchised by the white Democrat governor of a southern state.


4 posted on 10/15/2020 10:55:17 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: SJackson

Sounds like CNN thinks that blacks are inferior.


5 posted on 10/15/2020 10:58:50 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: SJackson

It’s only hurting the stupid ones...and stupid should hurt.


6 posted on 10/15/2020 10:58:56 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Steely Tom

A white Democrat governor who likes to wear blackface, no less.


7 posted on 10/15/2020 10:58:57 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: SJackson

No it’s not— it’s affecting the “made up” fake black ballots being “harvested” from non-existent people-—and those of any other dead and any number of colors, people.

Remember, this was Democrat lawyer Marc Elias who is slapped down with all the slush money he was spending to support the criminal dem governor and his (((AG))) ultra leftie Josh Stein pull off this along with stacking the State Board of Election such that they tried to rubber stamp this.

The Republican true conservative run Legislature stopped them. Specifically the Speaker of the NC House, and 2 federal judges.


8 posted on 10/15/2020 10:59:19 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SJackson

This is serious ... you can tell. CNN assigned three authors to write at 5th grade level.


9 posted on 10/15/2020 10:59:55 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Jackson; All

Chaos or “Orange Man Bad” manufactured crisis or both?

Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.

I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.

Insights welcome.


10 posted on 10/15/2020 11:00:19 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: SJackson
Gager thinks what happened to his ballot has something to do with efforts to suppress the Black vote in the state. "They're just doing it in the open, deliberately," he said.

WHEN THINGS DON'T WORK YOUR WAY, CRY "RACISM!" AND LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR!.....................

11 posted on 10/15/2020 11:01:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: AppyPappy

You have that correct— the “second harvest” consolidation of ballots in select counties. In 2016 it was Durham County that was a week late in “counting” newly “discovered” ballots.

They wait to see how many they need-— then commence.


12 posted on 10/15/2020 11:02:05 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

CNN’s favorite, permanent victim class: blacks.

How will MSNBCNN ever survive without them ?


13 posted on 10/15/2020 11:02:31 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: SJackson

Not far from where I live postal worker throws out bags of mail:

https://news.yahoo.com/pittsburgh-postal-worker-suspected-discarding-133603620.html


14 posted on 10/15/2020 11:02:32 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: SJackson

The Democrats have made a major strategic error. They believed that Vote By Mail would deliver a victory, especially once COVID-19 showed up. They were so confident that they scrapped their Get Out The Vote machine. That machine would collect the Black Voters at their Black Churches and neighborhoods, drive them to the polling place and give them detailed instructions on how to vote for Democrats. It has worked like a charm for years. Not this year.

Without the GOTV, they can’t get the votes to the mail box. And then when they get them to the Courthouse, the ballots have errors, many of them fatal.That’s why they wanted the counting to continue until they win. The courts are shutting down that scheme, so they are in trouble.


15 posted on 10/15/2020 11:08:55 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: SJackson

Well, you see, blacks are statistically more like to fill out the ballots incorrectly. So those dastardly racists are just pulling all the incorrectly-filled out ballots, knowing that this will disproportionately affect black voters.


16 posted on 10/15/2020 11:09:50 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SJackson

Here come the excuses


17 posted on 10/15/2020 11:13:36 AM PDT by Conserv (he)
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To: centurion316

The fraud of the unsolicited mail in ballots has also been stymied-— having nothing to do with race at all.

It has been discussed that the USPS marks the mail in ballots (which already have scan codes on the ballots, as to what party, and in the case of bulk mail out of fake blanks- the ballots have a code directing to “locations” where they can be bulk manipulated/filled out).

The bulk sorting machines read the scans and re-label using invisible flourescent dye which sorts the mail to pre-arranged locations.

So it is said— a “BLOCK CHAIN” of fake ballots.
ONLY— the US Postal Inspectors have largely eliminated the fraudsters (which was developed/programmed by the Union of the sorters— so it is said— thugs doing this, and a federal crime). All this from some very sophisticated “zero hedge” types and dripped out over twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan/2020/09/20/us-postal-service-files-a-patent-for—voting-system-combining-mail-and-a-blockchain/#7d020d6c3336

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-postal-service-considering-blockchain-based-voting-solution-2020-08-24


18 posted on 10/15/2020 11:25:39 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SJackson

Man blacks can’t do squat without a Government helping hand. Would that make them an inferior race?


19 posted on 10/15/2020 11:34:18 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: AppyPappy
Possibly.

Goes along with my theory that all of this is designed to create as much chaos as possible and have the election go to the courts.

They will declare any Trump victory, even a tsunami, to be illegitimate.

Second part of the plan is the mau mau campaign to be launched after the election is declared "stolen" as happened with soetoro's involvement in the 2006 Kenya election.

20 posted on 10/15/2020 11:44:54 AM PDT by Eagles6
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