You answered your own question: "It has no cash value".

A mail carrier or a thief cannot buy a sandwich or pay their rent with a ballot, because it has no cash value. Stealing one ballot has almost zero benefit to the person doing it.

• Ballots are strictly tracked: Mail-in ballots use specific barcodes (like tracking a package). Voters can look up exactly where their ballot is online, from the moment it is mailed out to the moment it is received and counted by election officials.

• Tamper-evident envelopes: Ballots are sent in heavy, official envelopes. If someone opens it or messes with it, it is immediately obvious to the election workers who receive it.

• Signature verification: Even if someone did manage to steal a ballot, they cannot just fill it out and send it in. Election officials verify the signature on the outside of the envelope against the voter's signature on file. If they do not match, the ballot is flagged and rejected.

• It is a federal crime: Stealing or tampering with mail is a felony, but tampering with an election carries even harsher federal prison sentences and massive fines.

Here are the key points to list that explain exactly how the system prevents and catches mass ballot theft:

• Unique, Localized Designs: You can't just print fake ballots in bulk. Every single county—and often individual precincts—uses highly specific ballot layouts, paper weights, colors, and exact dimensions. A machine will immediately reject an outside or duplicated ballot.

• The Envelope is a Security Device: Ballots must be returned in official government-issued envelopes. They feature specialized logos, strict design standards, and high-visibility identifiers (like the USPS Official Election Mail Logo). A random stack of plain envelopes would be instantly flagged.

• Individualized Barcodes: Every outbound and return ballot envelope features a unique Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb). If a criminal stole 100 ballots from a neighborhood, the moment they tried to submit them, the system would flag them because the individual barcode must match a specific registered voter on the state enrollment list.

• Immediate Deactivation: Because voters can track their ballots online, if a voter realizes their ballot never arrived, they report it. The election office instantly deactivates the stolen barcode and issues a new one. Even if the thief tries to mail the stolen one in later, it’s already dead in the system.

• The Signature Bottleneck: To steal ballots in large numbers, a criminal would have to successfully forge the unique signature of hundreds of different people. Election offices use automated and bipartisan human review teams to check every single signature against the voter's official file (like a driver's license signature). Massive batches of forged signatures are incredibly easy to spot.

In short: Stealing one ballot is useless, and trying to steal a thousand triggers an overwhelming amount of digital and physical alarms.

Republicans are spreading this message, that is objectively not true, for political reasons;
it allows them to take actions like cutting early voting periods, reducing the number of polling places or drop boxes, and implementing stricter ID requirements.
These restrictions disproportionately impact specific groups of voters (such as hourly workers, students, and minorities), making it physically or logistically impossible for some citizens to cast their ballots. By creating barriers that successfully block eligible citizens from participating, these actions fit the definition of preventing people from voting for their chosen representatives.

It's not even benefiting Republicans anymore. But they drilled that idea into your head,
and now they can't take it out, especially not with Trump attaching his entire identity to election fraud.

It also gives Trump the ultimate fallback: he can claim the Democrats cheated if he loses, while framing any of his own rule-bending as just preventing them from cheating.

That's a great analogy.

Maybe people checked TWO boxes?

Well, europe dropped the idea of allowing canada to be a part of the eu, so um,

I voted today.
Quebec tried this in 1995 and voted to stay in Canada.
Alberta can't just secede.
It's more complicated than you understand.

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Heck, he does this so much you’d think he has Benign Essential Blepharospasm (BEB): A rare neurological disorder (focal dystonia) that causes involuntary, forceful muscle spasms and closing of both eyes, sometimes leading to temporary functional blindness.🤣🤣😈

He said (something like) that in 2015.