The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could decide to ask Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the November general election as a mail-ballot-only, to dispense with in-person polling places in the name of safety from the coronavirus.
According to a county staff report, 25-percent of Contra Costa County voters, approximately 175,000, vote in person. The “vast majority” of volunteers at those polling places are seniors, a group vulnerable to get the sickest from coronavirus.
Volunteers who operate many polling locations have already notified the county Elections Office that they will not be available to serve in the November general election, because of health and safety concerns
spurred by the virus.
County elections officials say there is a “current lack of state-level consensus on a plan of action” for the election, and that local officials need to know how to prepare for the election.
Preparations in Contra Costa, the county report says, are already underway.
Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 9:30 a.m., and will be done remotely.
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“Could decide to ask…?” Just do it for god’s sake.
I don’t trust that method of voting
Let’s put it up to a vote then.
Ann,
Why, specifically?
I live in a rural county and there are no precincts. Everyone votes by mail. Our county has nearly 100% turnout and there has NEVER been an accusation of voter fraud.
Oh yeah, it’s a Republican area too. We laugh at the assumption that vote-by-mail is crooked.
I’m from CA and it’s a well known fact that the Democrats “Harvest” ballots which is incredibly un-American and should be considered treason. Dem “officials” go to all homes where there is a “mail in” Voter and ask the voter if they need help and/or want them to bring their vote to be counted. These “officials” are known to encourage the Voter to vote liberally instead of they really want to vote. Happens with senior citizens all the time. The “official” basically harasses the Voter. They throw away suspected “Republican” ballots, for obvious reasons. You can’t trust Dems. They literally vote for and support pedohiles, rapists and women abusers. (See Bill & Hillary Clinton and their really close friend Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein). Nice company!
@Scott
what are you smoking and where can i get some?
Only if postal service dose not get shut down
Since my wife and I are usually on opposite sides politically, I think I’ll fill out her ballot when I do mine, and mail both of them in. She’ll never know.
You’ll need to forge her signature, which is a federal crime.
Clyde,
Damn, when they make that law? I better start paying attention to what these politician types are doing…
The liberals will not like that at all. They love to scream how that is voter suppression.
No, “voter suppression” is what certain bed-wetters amongst us scream over the common sense notion of presenting an ID in order to vote. They love mail-in since ballot harvesting is now legal in CA which allows “community organizers” to go around collecting ballots from people with absolutely ZERO chain-of-custody safeguards, precisely why Pelosi tried to sneak it into the virus relief bill…that failed, but great news, the Kennedy Center for smug intelligentsia got $25M, then promptly laid off 250 people.
Pete,
Now that’s going to set off a bunch of “fact check” responses for sure!
Just have to make sure the USPS is still in existence come November. I have voted mail-in the last few elections. They have drop off boxes at places so you don’t have to rely on your carrier to notice that you have outgoing mail (which sometimes they walk right by).
Captain,
So according to Ann, you and I have never even voted!
I believe you can check online if your ballot was counted if you jotted down your ballot number. At least I did two years ago and it was counted.
Screw the Bd. Of Supes…..for the most part mindless individuals.
108RS
I agree. The city managers are screwing the public just like the Bankers did back in The housing scandal, 2008 and all that lead up to it. Greedy carpet baggers that care not if our country is destroyed. That was just a trial run, for them.
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.
Bad idea.
Oh I bet they will… I bet they will
The voters can take this into their own hands and request to be a “vote by mail” voter. My entire household has been voting by mail for years.
Re register everyone against a social security number and it may be OK.
YES! And count against living registered voters. Americans ONLY!
Racist! Anti-immigrant propaganda of the highest order!
Actually, makes perfect sense to me.
1791 Not worth a response.
Ric,
Duh.
I’ve been doing it for over 25 years. Get to sit down and take my time….
No! After observing the criminal behavior of Democratic politicians and Mainstream News, factual representation cannot be expected. Pelosie, Waters, Schiff, Feinstein and of course Newsom are corrupt to the core. Our own county and city officials are a perfect example of what is to come. Tax the middle class out of their homes and give themselves raises.
Do they ever listen to our concerns?
They listen to all of us but perhaps they discount what you say for better ideas
Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of a sick person, tyranny is when you restrict the movement of a healthy person.
Now we have Quarantyranny. Where do I sign up to fight that?
Might want to use a different word to make your point. The etymology of the word Quarantine comes from the Italian quaranta giorni for forty days. The Venetians would isolate ships from affected countries coming into port that long to prevent the spread of the plague.
If you only isolate the sick, then there’s no point. The estimate for coronavirus is that something like ~40% of transmissions occur from asymptomatic or presymptomatic individuals. I don’t know what the false negative rate is for the test right now, but I heard ~30%
Just do it.
And it doesn’t increase the crime rate like the President claimed in a tweet on April 11th. That’s absurd.
But everything he says is absurd, right Mike? What’s the point?
Stop taking choices away from the people (under the guise of safety). The people working the polls get paid, not much, so they aren’t volunteers. The poll workers CHOOSE if they want to work.
And “25% of the people vote in person”. Oh please..
So you can go to the grocery store but they want you to mail the votes in yeah something smells funny here. I mean if this is the way you do it that’s fine but lots of people like to go in person. The question is do our votes even count anymore because they don’t seem to if you’re conservative here …because of demographic change and public school indoctrination centers anybody that’s a conservative our votes don’t seem to count ! this is pretty much why the American revolution was fought – taxation without representation
According to Gabbin Nuisiance, he’ll be making all the decisions for us from now on … under threat of Marshall Law.
Gittyup, you have described how Fascism enters through the back door. Mao, Hitler, Castro, Maduro to name a few.
Imagine we all went to the grocery store the same day.
Most of Ca uses absentee ballots anyway.
“So you can go to the grocery store but they want you to mail the votes in yeah something smells funny here.” That’s because if they mailed us our food supplies the smell would not be funny at all.
This is a bad idea. So we’re still going to be in isolation in November, I don’t think so.
I don’t think my wife and I can get along for that distance.
“They” want it to go on for 18 months. No thanks, I will be ignoring their baloney order long before then as will millions of others.
So…is your wife going to be single? Asking for a friend.
Clyde
Give me another month and I will let you know. Well, maybe a week.
A funny thread for the first time in a while!
Thanks!
The DMV began registering illegal aliens to vote some time ago. So our system is corrupted anyway. I’d love to see a requirement for a Real ID for people to vote. Be interesting to see if it would change the outcome of our elections.
Worse than DMV, Health and Human Services now indiscriminately and routinely hands out voter registration forms to anyone applying for services (MediCal, SNAP, General Assistance) which I believe are available to illegals per one of Newsom’s recent dictates.
No….should be in person and require REAL ID
Well said and I agree
If 75% of voters vote absentee, and most poll workers are seniors.
I see now why it’s so hard to find tinfoil in the stores. Half the readers of claycord are using it for headwear.
@chicken
I’m afraid it’s more like 80%.
ICE should be unleashed With the aid of the National Guard and other alphabet agencies to curb our illegal alien infestation here. Next implement the ID check statewide to vote which should’ve been in place years ago. furthermore I’ve said it for a long time charge the city officials of the sanctuary cities with the aiding and abetting criminals. Then charge local and national media/public officials of seditious conspiracy (trump Russia hoax) and a lot of the corrupt stuff will sort itself out that’s huge. Lastly our public schools have become extremely corrupt with Neo Liberal Socialist Marxist Ideology this is very very dangerous and needs to be addressed as a priority. Any teachers that promote such teachings should be removed/fired and publicly shamed to say the least. Must remove unions from government jobs that should never be allowed seems like a recipe for disaster look what happened to the BART strike when they shut down as an example of Union interference
You have it right a Bill!
Do you need to wear the tinfoil hat indoors? Or do my solar panel provide enough protection from those deep state rays? Or did I mean deep space rays?
Yes Jojo, you need to wear the tin foil hat inside. If you still have a rotary phone, turn it upside down and turn one screw counter clockwise 25%.
What are the plans to eliminate fraudulent votes ? ?
IF politicians are serious, make voter fraud a FELONY with mandatory six months jail time. Actual 180 calendar days incarcerated, no time off or half time.
Would be a step in correct direction giving citizens of CA renewed confidence in government.
og, first they have to find some fraudulent votes – not easy, since they are an infinitesimal fraction of the vote. like, not even measurable.
Glad you feel that way, OG, because voter fraud is already a federal crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. California law provides for up to 3 years in prison and a fine.
mtzman, … that’s good to hear, thanks for info.
Unfortunately is a crime that is not enforced enough,
moreover every conviction should be- widely publicized.
Much like mail theft, we rarely hear of prosecutions, convictions and sentences. There is no deterrence of crime if criminals don’t hear of consequences other criminals have suffered.
og, you don’t seem to get it. THERE IS NONE.
I really don’t believe it matters much if people vote by mail or in person.
With no verifiable ID, everyone can vote early and vote often.
If votes are restricted to mail only, the winner of each election will be determined by which side has the better vote fraud apparatus. Who can generate the most rigged votes?
This already being a far-left state and looking to go even farther left, voting will soon be a non-issue.
There will be one candidate, everyone will vote for that candidate if someone doesn’t vote they’ll be shot.
How much simpler can it get?
My daughter has lived in and been a registered voter of another state for three years, but I still get an absentee ballot in the mail for her here, an address she hasn’t used for those three years. Why is that? It appears to me that there is too much room for fraud in the current systems.
A registered voter needs to fill out a cancellation of registration form and send it to state or local offices.
It is BS , we have the flu every single year , nobody knows if the corona virus will be back , it could be one and done. It would be very easy to “lose” ballots, . We have never done this before, with the flu . This hysteria has to stop.
Here’s a deal for ya, State of California: I’ll fill out my census if you let me vote in-person.
But King Trump says…
“When somebody is the President of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be — it’s total. And the governors know that.”
Guess our Game Show host has never read the U.S. Constitution.
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