Ballots will begin to go out by mail on Monday for the special budget override election.
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Early ballots for Tuesday's city election can be turned in anytime before polls close on Election Day, but drop them off in person. It's too late to mail them.
A veteran GOP political strategist told me he likens the current state of America to pressure building inside a volcano and predicts, “It will blow its top immediately after the election.”
The state of Pennsylvania is rapidly emerging as a contentious battleground where Republicans and Democrats are fighting over one of the most hot-button issues in November’s election – the use of mail-in ballots.
“For voters who have concerns about voting at the polls in November, an early ballot request for a mail-in ballot is a good option,” Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said.
In a speech last week, President Trump said this about mail-in ballots for the coming election: “This will be the greatest catastrophe. One of the greatest catastrophes in the history of our country, that's how serious it is.”
If you want a barometer for where we are as a country, consider this: Rioters can topple statues of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson and odds are good local police will be ordered to stand down. Remove a neighborhood mailbox for ordinary reasons, and well, that’s such a potent symbol of supposed U.S. government tyranny that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will convene hearings about the “the sabotage of the Postal Service" and members of Congress will openly suggest arresting the postmaster general.
The 2020 election could be the biggest gamble in the history of the United States, starting with the huge consequences at stake but made even more uncertain because of two huge question marks at the front and back ends of the voting itself.