Google reportedly took five day to look back misleading ads from an establishment that reverberate the president ’s crock about ballot by mail , and then declined to take them down essentially because of a triviality .
allot to aWashington Post reportthis week , the ads aim to discourage voters from using the U.S. Postal Service , which President Donald Trump has oftentimes betray ina self - professed attemptto outfit the election , to drive home their ballots . The write up vie that these ads carry deceptive information about the divergence between absentee ballot and mail - in ballot , and pop up for searches of mail - in voting in several primal battleground Department of State , including Florida , Michigan , Iowa , Arizona , Texas and Georgia , accord to University of Washington researcher .
One advertizing supposedly claim that most voter “ think chain mail - in voting and absentee vote are the same . ” But , it warn , “ believe again ! There are different safeguards for each . ”
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Most land practice the terms chain mail - in ballots and absentee ballots interchangeably , and they ’re all subject to the same verification process . In scant , absentee and chain armor - in ballot have essentially become synonymous , to the point that the National Conference of State Legislatures , a two-party public official ’ association , has adopted the condition “ absentee / mailed ballots ” to look up to all ballots mailed out to voters , as thePost notes .
A prominent banner on Protect My Vote ’s situation reads “ Think mail service - in vote is trouble costless ? imagine again ” followed by a quotation mark about guess voter pseud in the 2016 presidential election from Hans von Spakovsky , a former Federal Election Commission official and current manager at the Heritage Foundation , a right - leaning think tank . Back in 2018 , a federal evaluator vehemently expose Spakovsky’svoter fraud researchwhen he took the stand as an expert witness , ruling that his call were cerise - piece bullshit and not backed up by solid determination .
search for each state ’s mail - in voting confinement bring up more patent falsehoods . For example , Protect My Vote claims that Iowa requires a person ’s ID and proof of residence for absentee vote but not for mail - in voting , and keep that mail - in voting is n’t available at all in the state . Neither of those statements is true , and the verygovernment websitethe varlet links to for extra info uses the terms mail - in voting and absentee voting interchangeably . I searched for my home body politic of Virginia and found identical results . consort to Protect My Vote ’s site , mail - in ballot is unavailable in Virginia , which , if so , someone needs to let official have it away because they allow me register for it this week .
“ We have zero tolerance for ads that employ voter inhibition tactic or undermine participation in elections . When we find those ads , we take them down , ” a Google representative say .
It ’s one of those post where it ’s like , ok , I venture you ’re technically correct , but anyone with two mental capacity cells to itch together can realize that these kinds of misdirect ads spell trouble . Because surely allow for disinformation campaigns about chain armour - in balloting at a time when most people are too scared of fuck off sick to go to the polls wo n’t have any core on the popular process this November . Of course they ’re harmless .
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