Fauci repeats the obvious - Liberals rage on!

Put extra funds into making in-person voting safer 

“What about voting? So many people are concerned. We are in an election year. Some people are going to be heading to the polls in the next few weeks, can people go out and vote in person given there is so much concern about the vote?” ABC News’ Deborah Roberts asked Fauci during a recent interview. 

“I think if carefully done according to the guidelines, there’s new reason I can see that not being the case. For example, when you look at going to a grocery stores now in regions and counties and cities that are doing it correctly, they have x’s every six or more feet and it says don’t leave this spot until the person in front of you left their spot, and you an do that. If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” Fauci said. “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote in person.”

There is zero medical reason for us to have to vote "mail in" this election. If Fauci (who is as careful as a priest in a brothel) says it can be done, then it can be done. Perhaps we open up a few more polling stations, perhaps we expand hours, but from what we have seen during the primary season is that states that are not already prepared to vote by mail or having issues just deciding to do so in 2020.

As has been pointed out, California and New York just did their primaries by mail in voting and there was an approximate error rate of around 20% combined (meaning 20% of the ballots were tossed on technicalities), and New York took literally weeks to count everything. 

Now I am going to go ahead and disagree with Trump when he states that Democrats want mail-in voting as a means to steal an election through fraud. Not that I don't believe that fraud will occur and that Democrats are always helped by such fraud. Rather I think Democrats inherently understand that there are going to be more liberals than conservative who decide to "stay home" and "stay safe" rather than risk voting in person.

This is especially exasperated by the already low enthusiasm of the overall Biden support. People are already lukewarm about voting for Biden. Not risking a brush with a bunch of voters at a polling station might be all it takes for many of those unenthused to decide to stay home. However, many of them might be willing to fill something out and stick it in the mail.

Lastly, the entire concept of both legal and illegal vote harvesting is not going to be a thing in 2020. Certainly nobody is being let into nursing homes over the next few weeks in order to "assist" the elderly in filling out election ballots. This whole harvesting thing has been a huge part of the Democratic get out the vote drive, which of course is already suffering because of Covid. Currently Republicans have been outpacing Democrats in registering new voters, which is highly unusual for any election.

Without the means to badger people on the street, go door to door to assist with ballots, and using nursing homes and senior living communities as a means to fill out extra ballots, Democrats are already at a disadvantage over normal elections. If they have to deal with the reality that their voters are simply more cautious and timid about Covid, and may be less willing to stand in line than conservatives, well that is just rubbing salt in the wound.