Four years ago, at a rally, Trump told his followers, “If you voted by absentee ballot and don’t think they are going to count it, get another ballot and vote again, they’ll just toss the extra ballot.”
Show your work, Gorrell. Cite any works that support your “feeling” that voter fraud by mail happens in any statistically significant way. For that matter, cite any works that support voter fraud in general occurs in any significant way. Until then, it’s all “feelings” and has nothing to do with reality.
What a lie. Know where all the fraud is coming from? The folks who purge voter rolls. And the folks who close polling places in neighborhoods that don’t lean toward their party. And the folks who demand photo ID, but don’t allow certain photo IDs common among groups they don’t like. And the folks who push easily hacked electronic voting machines with no paper backup. And the folks who insist on only in-person voting during a pandemic (although they themselves vote by mail). Oh, and folks who try to inhibit voting by as many people as possible. In each case, that applies to only one party — the GOP. By the way, there are no cases of multiple-vote fraud By mail. That’s just another lie the GOP made up.
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby…you know the only people caught rigging mail-in ballots are Republicans because they’re the only ones evil enough to do it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina-idUSKCN1QG2FS
I’ve seen comic artists complain about the comments section. That since our comments are anonymous we can say what we like, any way we wish, without consequence. And I used to feel just a little bad for them.
And then there are guys like Gorrell, we just outright lie and put their name on it and publish it for all to see, over and over again. Without consequence. Hard to feel sympathy for some of them.
Well Bob, you are a Republican and Rs did ballot harvesting fraud in NC. I’m sure you will engage in fraudulent voting again. If we had a working justice dept then it probably wouldn’t happen.
same I voted sticker cartoon as January 28th. Evidence:
https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2020/01/28
as baroden said, let’s see some evidence to back up your claim.
Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah have conducted all elections by mail for years. If vote by mail didn’t work, wouldn’t we have seen a ton of fraud in these states?
but you would rather force people to risk getting sick and dying to vote this fall?
I believe in the right of dissenting parties having a voice, but you sir, as a member of the print media have sunk to a new low and have sorely abused that right. Shame, shame, shame on you!!!
I’ve voted for mail for a decade. My vote will be in the mail before the rotten cheating lying fraudulent Republicans can try to cancel the election to keep their insanely murderous dictator in power.
I expect there are some states that have had voting by mail for more than a few cycles so this cartoon certainly can be true. And.. from those states there had been very little fraud.. funny that
And so it starts, For god’s sake, give it a rest already Bobby. If the Republicans had a decent person worth voting for they wouldn’t need the shrill BS they’re already starting to spew.
This is a lie… a blatant lie. I’m fine with political cartoonists pushing their agenda, or their political opinion… even stretching the truth. But blatant lies are pathetic.
Singing the party line, as dreamed up by Tweety Bird! Without any evidence, of course. Trump voted by mail in Floriduh…. Hypocrisy and stupidity are a toxic combination.
With the ability to assign a unique identifier to every mail-in ballot that corresponds with an individual’s registration information for that state and district, what more does one need to validate a ballot? We all have gotten mail for someone that doesn’t live there cause 1) change of address didn’t get processed, 2) person died and the mailer didn’t know, 3) it’s junk mail. All the more important for voter registration records are updated. Imagine local authorities required to submit death certificates to the registrar’s office to ensure that individual is purged as a deceased voter. Imagine a requirement to de-register from a state when you move and is a pre-requisite to re-register in another state. So many possible solutions if partisan politics and “pro-small government” Americans weren’t so selfish. But lets keep pushing Right Wing conspiracies.
Oregon – one voter, one ballot. There are no extra ballots and ballots are returned in signed envelopes. Why is the GOP so scared of voting by mail? Oh yeah, four of the five states that do it are deep blue.
Okay Bob If you think this is a real problem, tell you what I’ll do. You put up $25,000 and I’ll put up $25,000. If there are even 1000 mail-in votes charged with voter fraud after the November 2020 election – you get my $25,000. If not, I get your $25,000. I’ve checked and I can set this up with the trust dept of Bank of America (Nevada). All you need to do is send the name of the attorney or trust officer you want to use to my email address voterverification@mail.com I extended a similar offer about (the lack of) voter fraud to Kobach about 2016, but the coward wouldn’t do it. Will you put your money where your mouth is?
If you are going to blast these types of facts, where are your verifiable facts? This is just another attempt at justifying the Repulsican denial to a large segment of legal citizens their right to a free and open election. Where’s your concern for the thousands of voters in Georgia whose names were illegally removed from the polls by a Repulsican. Apparently voter fraud is OK if you belong to their party.
I live in Utah … a Republican super majority state … and we have had vote by mail for a few years with no issues. I love it because it makes it easy to vote for primary election and years when there might just be a vote for a school bond or city/county leaders. Plus, I feel my vote is more informed. I always went into the voting booth having done my research on the major races, but when it came to things like school board, state auditor, judge, I was unprepared. Vote by mail gives me an opportunity to research the less-publicized offices.
It’s no easier to commit voter fraud while voting by mail as it is voting at a polling place. That means, as long as the state employees, volunteers and officials at the polling places are honest and do their jobs, not very. And since voting by mail centralizes the process, there are far more eyes on the procedures than there would be at distributed polling places.
Trump voted by mail in the last election. He invalidated his ballot because he put his wrong birthday on it. You got to be insanely stupid to not know your own birthday.
Oregon has had ballots sent out by mail for 20 years. You may drop them off or mail them back, your option, but mailing them does require you to buy a stamp. Because the GOP folks hated the idea and yelled so loudly, there have been a number of studies done about fraudulent votes before and after as well as between Oregon and other states. To only the GOP’s surprise, it turns out that there were (slightly) fewer instances of cheating after the change. Slightly because it was already very low.
Of course, I fully recognize that the GOP doesn’t consider facts when coming up with their slogans and rants, but for the rest of us, I hope this is a useful factoid.
Oregon has proven vote by mail is the cheapest, and SAFEST way to hold elections, written ballots, plus signature verification. Saw one study/report that said out of some 500,000 ballots, they found FOUR attempts at voter fraud. With Bonespurs we can count on 99 out of 100 votes being fraudulent. GO Diebold!
RAGs almost 4 years ago
Four years ago, at a rally, Trump told his followers, “If you voted by absentee ballot and don’t think they are going to count it, get another ballot and vote again, they’ll just toss the extra ballot.”
hermit48 almost 4 years ago
How do we know you can’t cheat that way? If it were possible, vote by mail would be mandatory and fully billionaire funded in all red states.
Daeder almost 4 years ago
Bob knows for a “fact” that everyone in Oregon commits voter fraud every time they vote.
wyneaux almost 4 years ago
The myth that keeps on ticking….
The Love of Money is . . . almost 4 years ago
I some states it says: I VOTED IN MEMORY OF _________________ WHO DIED FROM COVID – 19
superposition almost 4 years ago
Half the dirty tricks (purges, closing polling locations, etc) just won’t work with voting by mail, eh?
baroden Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Show your work, Gorrell. Cite any works that support your “feeling” that voter fraud by mail happens in any statistically significant way. For that matter, cite any works that support voter fraud in general occurs in any significant way. Until then, it’s all “feelings” and has nothing to do with reality.
scote1379 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Making it easier to vote is a thing that Rep. fear the most, They are in the minority Nation wide !!
Ontman almost 4 years ago
Does that mean, Mr. Gorrell, that YOU HAVE sent multiple ballots and have been committing voter fraud? Your cartoon doesn’t lie does it?
FrankErnesto almost 4 years ago
I voted once in Florida, and they didn’t count it. The US Supreme Court gave the election to Bush, and look where we are today.
cdward almost 4 years ago
What a lie. Know where all the fraud is coming from? The folks who purge voter rolls. And the folks who close polling places in neighborhoods that don’t lean toward their party. And the folks who demand photo ID, but don’t allow certain photo IDs common among groups they don’t like. And the folks who push easily hacked electronic voting machines with no paper backup. And the folks who insist on only in-person voting during a pandemic (although they themselves vote by mail). Oh, and folks who try to inhibit voting by as many people as possible. In each case, that applies to only one party — the GOP. By the way, there are no cases of multiple-vote fraud By mail. That’s just another lie the GOP made up.
walfishj almost 4 years ago
His pen was moving, so it must be a lie.
pc368dude almost 4 years ago
Nothing scares the toots out of Republicans more than the possibility that there could be an outbreak of democracy.
suzalee almost 4 years ago
No evidence that mail in votes are fraudulent. Just another attempt to suppress the vote.
Zev almost 4 years ago
After seeing how the online census works out, maybe voting should be next.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
This is Rs projecting exactly what they will be doing in the future.
NRHAWK Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby…you know the only people caught rigging mail-in ballots are Republicans because they’re the only ones evil enough to do it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina-idUSKCN1QG2FS
mourdac Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The Rethuglicons have irrefutable proof of this or they wouldn’t make such a base claim, don’t they…/s
Durak Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I’ve seen comic artists complain about the comments section. That since our comments are anonymous we can say what we like, any way we wish, without consequence. And I used to feel just a little bad for them.
And then there are guys like Gorrell, we just outright lie and put their name on it and publish it for all to see, over and over again. Without consequence. Hard to feel sympathy for some of them.
Vidrinath Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Well Bob, you are a Republican and Rs did ballot harvesting fraud in NC. I’m sure you will engage in fraudulent voting again. If we had a working justice dept then it probably wouldn’t happen.
GradingGorrell almost 4 years ago
same I voted sticker cartoon as January 28th. Evidence:
https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2020/01/28
as baroden said, let’s see some evidence to back up your claim.
Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah have conducted all elections by mail for years. If vote by mail didn’t work, wouldn’t we have seen a ton of fraud in these states?
but you would rather force people to risk getting sick and dying to vote this fall?
JimValTen Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I believe in the right of dissenting parties having a voice, but you sir, as a member of the print media have sunk to a new low and have sorely abused that right. Shame, shame, shame on you!!!
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
I’ve voted for mail for a decade. My vote will be in the mail before the rotten cheating lying fraudulent Republicans can try to cancel the election to keep their insanely murderous dictator in power.
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Vote early! Vote often!
rmfrye Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If you can’t support a position with facts, try to sling enough B.S. to convince the uninformed. Sad.
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I expect there are some states that have had voting by mail for more than a few cycles so this cartoon certainly can be true. And.. from those states there had been very little fraud.. funny that
Librarylady almost 4 years ago
Always parroting his glorious leader. Right or wrong. That is gullibility personified.
Diamond Lil almost 4 years ago
And so it starts, For god’s sake, give it a rest already Bobby. If the Republicans had a decent person worth voting for they wouldn’t need the shrill BS they’re already starting to spew.
rwebs almost 4 years ago
As they used to say in Chicago, “Vote early, and vote often.”
Aliquid almost 4 years ago
This is a lie… a blatant lie. I’m fine with political cartoonists pushing their agenda, or their political opinion… even stretching the truth. But blatant lies are pathetic.
ferddo almost 4 years ago
So Gorrell admits to voting fraud…
Woodstock Generation Premium Member almost 4 years ago
This is pure propaganda! Worthy of the J. Goebbels medal.
gammaguy almost 4 years ago
True cartoon, Gorrell? Did you vote multiple times, really?
And they allow by-mail voting where you live?
DeepState almost 4 years ago
Singing the party line, as dreamed up by Tweety Bird! Without any evidence, of course. Trump voted by mail in Floriduh…. Hypocrisy and stupidity are a toxic combination.
ndblackirish97 almost 4 years ago
With the ability to assign a unique identifier to every mail-in ballot that corresponds with an individual’s registration information for that state and district, what more does one need to validate a ballot? We all have gotten mail for someone that doesn’t live there cause 1) change of address didn’t get processed, 2) person died and the mailer didn’t know, 3) it’s junk mail. All the more important for voter registration records are updated. Imagine local authorities required to submit death certificates to the registrar’s office to ensure that individual is purged as a deceased voter. Imagine a requirement to de-register from a state when you move and is a pre-requisite to re-register in another state. So many possible solutions if partisan politics and “pro-small government” Americans weren’t so selfish. But lets keep pushing Right Wing conspiracies.
Patjade almost 4 years ago
More BS from Gorrell.
Well, actually there was a group that committed voter fraud by absentee ballot and the mail. It was done by Republicans in North Carolina in 2018.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-operative-faces-new-felony-charges-that-allege-ballot-fraud?t=1590508750280
DrDon1 almost 4 years ago
Just more evidence that Gorrell is simply a shill for the Swamp Dweller-in-Chief who defiles the Oval Office!
walkingmancomics almost 4 years ago
Oooh—what IS this shit my eyes stopped on here? Oh yeah, more GOPish lies.
david_42 almost 4 years ago
Oregon – one voter, one ballot. There are no extra ballots and ballots are returned in signed envelopes. Why is the GOP so scared of voting by mail? Oh yeah, four of the five states that do it are deep blue.
Motivemagus almost 4 years ago
LIES, Gorrell. LIES. Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent. You can check it yourself at the nonpartisan Brennan Center.
https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud
thelordthygod666 almost 4 years ago
Okay Bob If you think this is a real problem, tell you what I’ll do. You put up $25,000 and I’ll put up $25,000. If there are even 1000 mail-in votes charged with voter fraud after the November 2020 election – you get my $25,000. If not, I get your $25,000. I’ve checked and I can set this up with the trust dept of Bank of America (Nevada). All you need to do is send the name of the attorney or trust officer you want to use to my email address voterverification@mail.com I extended a similar offer about (the lack of) voter fraud to Kobach about 2016, but the coward wouldn’t do it. Will you put your money where your mouth is?
rs0204 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Voting by mail does not work that way chief. Nice total fabrication, but what do you expect from a trumpkin…all lies.
XtopherSD almost 4 years ago
Why does Bob Gorrell hate democracy?
kentmarx36 almost 4 years ago
If you are going to blast these types of facts, where are your verifiable facts? This is just another attempt at justifying the Repulsican denial to a large segment of legal citizens their right to a free and open election. Where’s your concern for the thousands of voters in Georgia whose names were illegally removed from the polls by a Repulsican. Apparently voter fraud is OK if you belong to their party.
Union Man almost 4 years ago
Thanks for pointing out that our military vote by mail Bob. The day after Memorial Day, nice!!!
KarenLaRae Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I live in Utah … a Republican super majority state … and we have had vote by mail for a few years with no issues. I love it because it makes it easy to vote for primary election and years when there might just be a vote for a school bond or city/county leaders. Plus, I feel my vote is more informed. I always went into the voting booth having done my research on the major races, but when it came to things like school board, state auditor, judge, I was unprepared. Vote by mail gives me an opportunity to research the less-publicized offices.
Retired engineer almost 4 years ago
It’s no easier to commit voter fraud while voting by mail as it is voting at a polling place. That means, as long as the state employees, volunteers and officials at the polling places are honest and do their jobs, not very. And since voting by mail centralizes the process, there are far more eyes on the procedures than there would be at distributed polling places.
jhayesd31 almost 4 years ago
Yes bob we know that Republicans like you commit Voter Fraud. Like in My state of NC
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/mccrae-dowless-indictment.html
Even the Right wing Nuts Heritage foundations claims that There are 1,200 incidents of voter fraud.
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
A better definition of voter fraud might be a state where 51% of the vote winds up in a VETO PROOF MAJORITY FOR THE OTHER SIDE
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gerrymandering-meets-coronavirus-wisconsin
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
Trump voted by mail in the last election. He invalidated his ballot because he put his wrong birthday on it. You got to be insanely stupid to not know your own birthday.
pamela welch Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Horse-Pucky!
Treehggr87 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Anyone claiming election fraud has obviously not worked an election. Pitch in and help folks! Your local will be grateful for the help-
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
Oregon has had ballots sent out by mail for 20 years. You may drop them off or mail them back, your option, but mailing them does require you to buy a stamp. Because the GOP folks hated the idea and yelled so loudly, there have been a number of studies done about fraudulent votes before and after as well as between Oregon and other states. To only the GOP’s surprise, it turns out that there were (slightly) fewer instances of cheating after the change. Slightly because it was already very low.
Of course, I fully recognize that the GOP doesn’t consider facts when coming up with their slogans and rants, but for the rest of us, I hope this is a useful factoid.
Dtroutma almost 4 years ago
Oregon has proven vote by mail is the cheapest, and SAFEST way to hold elections, written ballots, plus signature verification. Saw one study/report that said out of some 500,000 ballots, they found FOUR attempts at voter fraud. With Bonespurs we can count on 99 out of 100 votes being fraudulent. GO Diebold!
Woodstock Generation Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Just read that a Republican tried to use mail in ballots to defraud an election but was easily caught.