Walt Mossberg

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@wayner99 If they’d known about these religions, it seems like it wouldn’t have mattered. Read this excerpt from Rhode Island’s 1663 colonial charter, which became the state’s original constitution. https://t.co/UBWmjmu8ot — PolitiTweet.org

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@wayner99 I won’t comment on your religious analysis, but Baptists were banned by the Puritans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tompetz I get it. But some other states with GOP legislatures and/or governors start counting mail ballots much earlier. — PolitiTweet.org

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See below. Because of this, Williams founded the first colony with true religious freedom. It was the opposite in that regard of Puritan Massachusetts. It’s why R.I. still contains the country’s oldest synagogue building and oldest Baptist congregation. https://t.co/NBjXEYMlhy — PolitiTweet.org

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@beninato Wisconsin also waits till the last minute. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tompetz PA is a disgrace on this issue. It doesn’t start counting mail votes till 7 am on Election Day - just like in the old days, when mail ballots were an afterthought. Many other states changed the rules for 2020, knowing how huge the mail ballot volume would be. Not Pennsylvania. — PolitiTweet.org

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When does your state start counting mail ballots this year? Here’s a table that tells you. https://t.co/9HwCXllsL8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@darrendotcom Security online is not good enough. Even in 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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@darrendotcom However, the state urges people to avoid this online option, because the ballots it produces can’t be counted by the readers the state uses. So it takes extra time for a bi-partisan pair of judges to copy your choices onto a regular ballot. This can be fixed for the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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@darrendotcom Maryland has an option where you can print the ballot at home, and then either fill it out by hand, or let the software fill in the bubbles you choose. All that’s missing is the final step where you click to actually vote. You still must physically deliver it, for security. — PolitiTweet.org

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Go @RaysBaseball! Don’t let the Astros steal another one! (I assume there’s no illegal signaling system available for the Astros to use at neutral @PetcoPark.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @heffnera: Walt is 💯. @NYGovCuomo, get with the program and authorize this NOW. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer It’s one of the rare pieces of good news so far. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michelemclellan Thanks. IMO, for future elections, we need a law requiring processing and counting of mail ballots as they arrive, beginning at least 30 days (or more) before Election Day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BlairReeves Not necessarily. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin apparently wait till Election Day. — PolitiTweet.org

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In order to avoid a false claim of victory on Nov. 3, it’s crucial that states start counting mail ballots well before Election Day. I’m pleased to learn that Maryland began counting mail ballots on October 1, supposedly the earliest in the nation. https://t.co/6Hit9Rusfe — PolitiTweet.org

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@dfallman Long before Trump was a candidate, the “debate” format was criticized for not being a real debate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wrash Um, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dfallman Sorry, I profoundly disagree. Debates have been successful for hundreds of years. But these aren’t real debates. They’re just parallel stump speeches. At best, parallel press conferences if the moderator has any control, which he/she has lost. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good. These “debates” so far have added little or nothing to our knowledge of the candidates. The whole format needs rethinking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi @Gartenberg @AP That's one reason why they have to think really hard about how they handle this. In fact, I think they should try to agree on a new approach jointly, at least in general terms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomchannick Thanks. I had already seen this. But they only list the battleground states. I'm looking for the official policy of all 50. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brooklyndan @AP This year in particular, with one side predicting a rigged election, educated guesses will do harm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@marinaepelman Ha! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Gartenberg @stevesi @AP I'm afraid of that too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LanceUlanoff 2005 — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter will flag premature claims about who won the 2020 election - Axios https://t.co/OY8StxSGev — PolitiTweet.org

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@davlanta @AP Great! — PolitiTweet.org

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Great news! https://t.co/DsXhuW7NII — PolitiTweet.org

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@brooklyndan @AP Those examples are great tales of normal years. But they’re irrelevant when 80 million mail ballots, many unprocessed, are involved. And one candidate has already declared them fraudulent. — PolitiTweet.org