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URL:https://uufsd.com/events/uu-the-vote/
SUMMARY:UU the Vote - July 5
DESCRIPTION:Worried about our election during COVID? You should be!!\n\nVot
 er turnout may be fine in California and solidly blue and red states that 
 both parties are ignoring as already determined. But voter participation w
 ill face significant obstacles in Wisconsin\, Michigan\, Pennsylvania\, Fl
 orida and North Carolina\, Texas and Georgia. These are purple states with
 out a history\, funding or ability to conduct a fair mail-in-ballot electi
 on. They lack the resources to buy the necessary equipment or hire the nec
 essary people to convert to a mail-in election. Officials will site Corona
 virus risks as grounds to close polls in urban minority areas. Conspiracy 
 theories will fly from election night as the media will not be able to cal
 l the election as current laws mandate that mail-in ballots counting start
  after Election Day. the longer the count takes\, the more conspiracy theo
 ries will gain traction and the winner will lose legitimacy. With unpreced
 ented numbers of mail-in ballots and insufficient resources it won’t be 
 possible to count all the ballots by the federal statutory certification d
 eadline. Without a change in the law\, the Gore v. Bush precedent\, which 
 states that the certification deadline cannot be extended to allow for a m
 ore proper count\, will apply. State legislators will usurp power and choo
 se electoral college representatives themselves\, stating it is simply not
  possible to do a proper count/recount of all mail in ballots in the time 
 necessary and that they believe that voters really did vote for ______. An
 d\, to top it all off\, coronavirus will subsequently skyrocket in urban m
 inority areas with long lines at the polls. \n\nAll of that presumes that 
 USPS receives the funding it direly needs to stay afloat and deliver mail-
 in ballots. Right now\, USPS is heading toward bankruptcy in mid-fall\, ju
 st before the election. \n\nLaura Colban (lauracolban@gmail.com 8/692-2528
 ) is looking to form a group to work on this nonpartisan issue. This group
  should be broad\, and include people outside UUFSD. It will be an interfa
 ith coalition\, as churches are allowed to work on nonpartisan issues (not
 ice that everything above is nonpartisan!) We will divide into groups to a
 ttack the various dimensions of this considerable problem. I hope you will
  attend and will encourage your friends\, both at UUFSD and beyond\, to at
 tend. Come prepared!! Before attending\, please read at least one of these
  articles:\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/maga
 zine/voting-by-mail-2020-covid.amp.html\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/pol
 itics/archive/2020/06/trump-republicans-vote-mail-arizona-florida/612625/\
 n\nWe will meet on both July 5 and July 12\, immediately after the coffee 
 half hour.\n
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