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RUINED BALLOTS
NOW WE HAVE THE OFFICIAL NUMBER OF DESTROYED BALLOTS
UP TO ONE THIRD OF ALL BALLOTS SENT OUT TO VOTERS, MOST LIKELY 60 PERCENT OF LePen's BALLOTS, were destroyed at the time of mailing. ONLY LE PEN BALLOTS WERE DESTROYED, THERE IS NOT ONE REPORT OF A SINGLE BALLOT FOR MACRON ARRIVING DESTROYED. It was reported before the election that an enormous number of ballots for LePen were destroyed at the time of mailing, by tearing them badly BEFORE THEY WERE MAILED OUT. The French election was, in this method, STOLEN. Macron is NOT THE LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE.
Macron is a usurper, and not a President. He was put into power via an overtly and openly scammed election. The French have had it visibly and obviously proven to them - their nation can only be saved via violent uprising.
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You're going to need more evidence of those claims than a couple of pieces of typing paper. (Are those really write-in ballots? They look like someone printed the name "LE PEN" a few times, rumpled them a bit, and then posted raving nonsense on imgur.)
And I highly doubt that the French, of all people, have to be taught about the idea of violent uprising against their government. Maybe it's just you?
"The randomness of the tears proves this was done by hand".
Yeah... YOURS PROBABLY! Anyone can write a name on a sheet of paper like you did and claim it "official", but the majority of sane people won't buy it.
I would say this was indeed staged: normally, the ballot paper is folded the other way (in order to hide the name from first glance).
Also, citation needed on the ballots.
Oh, and, by the way, there are always piles of ballots at the voting stations, so, if you ballot paper is torn, you get to pick another one. Looks like somebody does not know how ballots in France work.
I'm not French, so I don't know what it's like there, but in the US basically every remotely official piece of paper has a "security background" underneath all the handwritten spots. That way, would-be vote manipulators can't use White-Out to change other's votes.
Also, the ballots are done with Scantron-style multiple-choice, not ... what is that pic supposed to even be?
@ Everybody
Here is how things work in French elections:
Our ballots do look like those papers in the photo, except they are folded approximately in the center and the other way (so that the name of the candidate is hidden from view when you put it in a ballot envelope.).
A few days before the actual vote, you get an envelope with the ballots and the candidates' campaign sheets.
On the day of the election, you get to a polling station (generally a school) with voting cabins. There is a table with bulletins of all candidates in more or less equal piles (so as not to give the impression one has a massive advantage.). You can use one of the ballots you got at home or take at least two ballots at the table. You are also given an envelope by the person who controlled your ID card/passport/driving license.
You get into a voting booth, put the abllot into the envelope. You then go to the urn where you put your envelope with the ballot. Any ballot without an envelope is null, any torn or written-on ballot is null.
There can be observers of both candidates in any polling station.
It is low tech, but considering the BS we saw during the Bush-Gore election, we actually like our system...
@Indicible
Thanks a bunch. The more you know.
So, based on the way it's folded, we can assume those aren't official ballots?
@Indicible : I get wanting to keep things done by hand, but I'd have given the ballots a watermark or something , at least to identify them as official documents. (No doubt if this "let's pretend there was massive election fraud" thing catches on, there will be in the future.)
I suppose I'm just used to the US system where we vote for everybody from the President down to the local school board all on the same day, so having different ballots for different candidates in each race would just be too unwieldy.
Anyway from what you're saying, even if Le Pen ballots had been systematically destroyed before being mailed out, all of her voters could have just gotten replacements at the polling place, right? And her campaign would've had observers on hand to make sure there wasn't any problem at that end.
@ Pyro
Yes, exactly. Of course, there can be anomalies, but there is an overwhelming chance that this photograph is staged and fake.
@ Jamaican Castle
Actually, our ballots are very barebones, precisely because we want to spot forgeries at first glance. If you have a complex sign as a watermark, it can be reproduced and stamped on fake ballots and the people counting the votes have to spend an inordinate amount of time checking the watermark.
Now, the ballots in our elections are made very plain because that way, you can spot writing, modifications or differences at first glance.
As you said, there is also the fact that we do not vote on basically every everyday life aspect.
Our prosecutors, as well as our judges, are professionals from a school were people are selected based on knowledge and competence (the system has its flaws, but at least, it guarantees a minimum of legal expertise.), we have no sherifs, because our police is selected in the same way as our judges. No governors and our senators are elected through an indirect ballot in which citizens barely intervene (senators are elected by so-called grands électeurs, who are, quite simply, local elected staff, like mayors, regional and departmental counsellors).
Confused?
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