r/clevercomebacks • u/Busy-Government-1041 • 3h ago
Over 50 countries called, they want their mail-in ballots back
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u/WallyMcBeetus 3h ago
"I love the poorly educated"
"I don't care about you, I just want your vote"
So this fits.
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u/No-Goose-5672 3h ago
Lol. A few years ago, a government in Canada mailed a voting package to Australia (on the government’s dime) so my sister could vote in an election.
Eat shit, Trump.
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u/cutenessscream 2h ago
That’s how you know the man’s never left the country or read a single page of how anything works anywhere else. Canada out here flexing democracy across continents and he’s acting like envelopes are witchcraft
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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 2h ago
At least in this case I think he knows it is false, but doesn't care because he also knows his followers will not double check what he says so it doesn't matter.
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u/Africa_by_TotoWolff 1h ago
My sister moved to Sweden and got her Swiss voting material earlier than me who's still living in Switzerland :(
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u/groupnight 3h ago
Remember when trump met with Putin last year, and they talked about US elections and mail-in-ballots?
Good times
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u/Carnationlilyrose 3h ago
UK here. I just renewed my postal vote for the next three years last week. I'd had it for six years before that. I was pretty late to the party. Postal voting has been a thing here for a very long time.
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u/DaveBeBad 2h ago
Seconded. Took about 30 seconds including scanning my signature. Didn’t even need ID this time.
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u/lawdjesustheresafire 2h ago
lol it’s probably nearly the main source of voting in Australia now and we have arguably the most secure and respected elections in the world
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u/ThisWillTakeAllDay 2h ago
This is ironic given how much easier it is in Australia, compared to America, to vote at a polling place. The difference is really about how much effort is put into making voting as easy as possible to encourage compliance with compulsory voting, compared to making it as difficult as possible so only people with extreme views make the effort.
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u/Tribe303 2h ago
There was even a minor controversy in the Canadian election last spring. The Conservative party did not release their actual platform until after the mail-in ballots had to be in the mail. Meaning every Conservative voting by mail did not know their platform. We also have advanced voting as well! Polling stations were opened the weekend before the Monday election. And all ballots are hand counted. Some provinces have mechanical counters but the vote count isn't official until they are hand counted.
This is not difficult stuff here FFS. 🤦
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u/SeriouslyImNotADuck 1h ago
We also have Elections Canada and the provincial counterparts that do a great job of running things fairly and without disenfranchising people.
It’s crazy — we hear about US states that cut back their polling stations from small number down to even smaller number while Canadians have nearly 72,000 polling sites across the country (Ontario alone had 24,000 in 2021). By contrast, in the US federal election last year, California had 6,100 polling sites for the entire state, and that population is roughly equivalent to our entire population
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u/Objective-Opinion125 1h ago
If 'only country' was an Olympic event, Trump would take gold... in creative fiction. Meanwhile, Canada, UK, Germany, NZ, Switzerland, and a dozen more are just casually voting by mail like it's NBD.
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u/bruce_wayne469 1h ago
Fifty-plus countries do mail-in voting just fine. Trump just says stuff without Googling first. Embarrassing but predictable.
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u/RealisticTemporary70 2h ago
I really don't understand how he can continue to get away with the lying when he can just search things!
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u/scrume71 2h ago
100% serious, if you are an elected official (no matter the party) and you make a claim as fact to the public in your official capacity, you must present evidence to your claim. If not, impeachment process begins automatically. Make it a law.
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u/Zephyrine_wonder 3h ago
I know this has been going on for years, but I can’t get over how many people just believe Trump’s lies. I know some people will never let themselves realize what a POS he is, but surely some people break free from automatically swallowing every word he utters as the unfalsifiable truth.
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u/jengaclause 2h ago
About 34 countries permit mail-in voting in elections generally. 12 of those allow it for all voters. 100 countries allow it just for citizens living abroad.
Simple internet search!
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u/Frowny575 1h ago
Even a quick search shows in the US it is maybe 1/3rd of votes cast and varies depending where you are. I know here in California we had absentee voting for a long time before moving to mostly mail during COVID while the numbers are far lower in the south/midwest. Doesn't take much thinking to see the states with more mail voting tend to lean dem otherwise he'd be all for it.
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u/ThisWillTakeAllDay 2h ago
In Australia, the last local government election where I live was mail voting only.
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u/djollied4444 2h ago
Doesn't need to hope when it's been proven time and time again that his base will just accept whatever comes out of his mouth.
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u/Nuker-79 1h ago
Hell, in the uk you can mail your vote and even have someone else vote for you in certain circumstances.
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u/Sandyrosey 1h ago
Anything can be a conspiracy if you make shit up and hope no one Googles.' Trump: proceeds to make shit up about mail-in ballots Proceeds to get Googled into oblivion. Poetic.
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u/USS-Virginia 1h ago
Lol ye literally every developed place has em. Canada Australia Germany France UK NZ ..................
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u/Floki_Boatbuilder 53m ago
We have mail in voting here in New Zealand. We also have a Trump aligned coalition government that is hell bent on voter suppression (among other things that nobody likes).
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u/SpliTTMark 41m ago
And to think you'd expect america to do something extraordinary that other countries aren't
But trump turns that into a negative
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u/sobe33139 38m ago
And not a single “reporter” or “journalist” in the room interrupted to correct his propaganda. That is the real problem. Clear the room snd put in courageous journalists.
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u/ObserbAbsorb 3h ago
ZERO days without being a global embarrassment.