Voting by Mail: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2020
- With the 2020 presidential election nearing and a pandemic in full swing, John Oliver discusses why voting by mail is necessary, the fearmongering surrounding it, and why we need to start planning for November right now.
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I love how they can acknowledge that a higher voter participation can go in the democrats favor. Imagine thinking that having a higher voter participation is a bad thing. Quite the democracy we have going
@@monochromaticspider Because the people who vote for them don't believe, or simply don't care that they're actually the minority (politically). They only care if they win.
Watch the rules for rulers video. It talks about majority suppression in democracys (amongst other things) Kinda insane that they flatout admit it.
Yeah, they used to try to keep this shit more under wraps, but I guess these days they're more willing to say out-loud what they're thinking. Guess they figure if they have the government enough by the balls, then they can be as brazen and outrageous as they want and nobody can stop them. At this point, they feel they have a good deal of power, so they feel entitled to admit that the reason they don't want mail-in voting is because (they think that) it would work against them.
I appreciate you bringing this up, because it really says everything about the Republican party you need to know: They don't care about the will of the majority. And that they are anti-democracy. And if they don't care about the will of the people as a whole, then the only other reasonable conclusion is that they care about themselves: Power, money, or whatever else they get for being in office, or for supporting those in office...that's what they care about. They care about GETTING something from their country, not about giving. Contrast that with what John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
They've lied to us. They've stolen livelihoods from us. And they've told us it's our own fault. So this November, let's show them what we're made of. Let's give them the ass-kicking they deserve. 💪👊🤙
Republicans seem to be highly scared of democracy. LOL
Republicans are the enemies of Democracy, what other conclusion can be drawn. They only care about keeping power.
Oregonian here - we've had vote by mail for nearly 15 years. 15. Years. With next to zero problems. It is convenient. It is comprehensive. It is accessible. It is representative of the people. It is democratic. It is secure.
@first last *Democratic republic
@first last And furthermore. Our Constitution says every citizen has the right to vote. So if you truly agree with our Constitution, then you disagree with not letting citizens vote. This includes felons.
All things ruling conservatives abhor, apparently.
We have it in Washington too. Anyone telling you vote by mail is dangerous just doesn't want you to vote.
@first last We also get a couple weeks to look over and research everything and everyone on the ballot before sending it in.
We also get to look online how our vote was counted to make sure they didn't miscount it. That's a big deal.
Everyone who tries to take democracy out of this country should hang. By the neck. Until dead. Traitors should die. I'll personally buy the rope.
As an aspiring artist, I actually have many fully functioning pencils and I know exactly where my pencil sharpener is, so I thought to myself, "I'm not living in a fantasy land." But, then I remembered I'm an aspiring artist... Well played, Mr. Oliver. Well played.
🤣🤣🤣
exactly the joke I was about to make as a graphic designer 😂
"An aspiring artist is just an author before they get their obligatory drinking problem."
- Stephen King
Ok, Stephen King didn't actually say that, it was just my first thought when I read, "I'm an aspiring artist." But it sounds better if he said it.
Same …
I know for a fact that I have pencil sharpeners, I'm still in school and an artist, but I could only find my one broken sharpener when he said that.
It’s 2 weeks after the 2020 presidential election. This aged like fine wine Mr.Oliver.
@lit lit that's fine, he's a Sewage Treatment Plant now.
It’s 7 weeks after the election. He certainly got the taking a dump on stage part right.
Aethel Wolfe
“The press controlled state” by Charlamagne.
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Fine wine ? Trump was right democrats stole the election by not giving an inch on verification of signatures on mail ballots
@@clarkwatson3217 lmao you still on this fraud mess 🤪
Calling Tucker Carlson a 'Human Boat-Shoe' is probably one of the greatest, deepest, and most intricately-layered insults I have ever heard. It effectively sums up the man's class, his entitled arrogance, his shallow existence, his actual relatability to his fellow Americans, and the microscopic value of all those parts in summation to reality. Bravo!
He called him a wanker without actually saying it 😂 w-anchor
sandy pandy Jesus Christ. This joke just keeps getting deeper. Like an anchor would......
And your breakdown-analysis of the insult is insightful and informative. Not all heroes wear capes!
:)
I thought he meant white, soft, and rubbery...;/
Hey, boat shoes are cool do not defame them with a comparison to a reptile
Voting in Switzerland:
- every Swiss resident is registered at the municipalty they live in (mainly for tax purposes)
- when there is a vote, every Swiss citizen (18y+) receives an envelope from the municipalty containing a voter card, ballots and a return envelope
- ballots are filled out by hand with yes/no (or names in case of elections)
- the voter card is signed
- the voter card and ballots are put into the return envelope and sent back to the municipalty by mail
Same in Germany
@@Raguel88 In Germany we don't sign voter cards, because it could lead to the government tracking who voted what. Rest is true though
Well I am sorry not all live in rich countries like Switzerland,some of the youth have to make their own country rich AGAIN
@@Raguel88 I even got my envelope to participate in German municipality elections while residing in the Netherlands!
Best way to trace desent is to let people put their name on it imo, election ballots themselves need to be anonymus.
Trump: guys, dont vote by mail
Supporters: ok
*mail in votes are counted last*
Trump: wOaH wHy aM i LoSiNg ???
hE diDn’T lOsE!¡! /s
The worst part is John predicted it
Maybe he thought it was like when you invite someone to a party, and you tell them not to bring anything, but it really means "at least bring a six pack you cheap fuck".
@T H FALSE!
he bankrupted THREE casinos
And he also voted by mail!
As an Oregonian I appreciated the shoutout. Our voting system doesn't get talked about near enough. It really is awesome.
As an Oregonian I agree
Same here in Wisconsin.
My God. Look at how calmly Tucker Carlson says we haven't had mail in voting for 200 years. Think about how many people saw that.
I can't believe I am able to still be so shocked and horrified by their manipulations but here we are
@@sarahstearns2968 Yeah. I find myself saying, "I'm not shocked - but I'm shocked" at least 4 or 5 times a day
Think about how many times people saw him spew his other radically ignorant opinions
Bowtie carlson is a failure, only accepted by other failed "news journalists" like fox news, which ironically are banned in countries like the UK
Tucker has the most punchable face. No mail in voting for 230 years?!? I guess he has no idea about military members? Didn't he hear his orange god votes by mail?!?
I vote by mail in Florida. It's awesome.
@@molsongrrrl I bet its only going to be a matter of hours before we find out he's voted by mail his entire life lol
Trump's attitude is "If the vote wasn't for me then it was fraudulent."
HAHAHAHA So true
Just like his preferences in protesters.
Rebecca Paige
Ayatollah Trump Ali gave ultimatum again!
If voting would change anything, it would be forbidden.
- Vladimir Putin
@@dagochen hol up
incredible how he completely called the issues with PA
Except non of it turned out to be a problem.
We kinda have to vote by mail in the military if we want our vote to count... and we're government employees
I'm German. I love this show. But while we have a boatload of problems here, many episodes make me wonder what's going on across that pond.
Voting by mail is such a standard thing here. They actually send you a return envelope along with your voting information and verification. You can decide whether you want to take that to the polling station and hand it over in exchange for your ballot or send it in to receive your ballot by mail.
I used to always go vote in person and tried mail voting when I had to work. It takes time but it is incredibly convenient. All the information and deadlines are on there, there is little chance of error. Apply for mail vote (automatically invalidating your direct vote) by sending your verification back (or do it online or by phone, I think that works as well), get the ballot, make a cross, sign it, use the return envelopes that even come in two colours with lots of "how to" information. Put it in the mail. Secure, easy, convenient and relatively fast.
It's like an episode about why the USA should have water pipes from non-poisonous materials or like, human rights or whatever. It feels so bizarre. We're not unconcerned over here either but it feels like we share half of your problems and are only half concerned about them.
Same with going to the doctor for free or not going to jail without trial or all those other things. Then again, we don't have Adam Driver. Crush me like my crippling debt, you abominable leviathan! Break me like my faith in humanity, you fearsome hunk!
It's a dumpster fire masquerading as a country.
as the rest of the world, i don't understand u.s. citizens
Daniel Sanchez Bravo as a US citizen, I wish I could let you know but I'm just as lost
Daniel Sanchez Bravo It’s been a rough year for us and it’s getting worse.
The US a Neapolitan ice cream of social economic problems just sprinkled with disproportionate death of blacks at at hands of law enforcement with a racism as 🍒 on top
German here, I haven’t voted in person in literal years, mail-in voting is so much easier, 10/10 would recommend
In einem System in dem jeder Wähler automatisch zur Wahl gebeten wird, ist das super. Das funktioniert hier weil wir automatisch im System sind.
Die Amis müssen aber einen so genannten Caucus oder Causus ausfüllen, dafür gehen Leute rum und stellen persönliche Fragen, wie, wohnst du hier, wie viele wohnen hier, Alter etc. Und das machen viele nicht, warum der Regierung was über einen erzählen wenn sie eh nichts für einen tut.
EDIT Census, ich bin mir nun wirklich sicher das es Census heisst XD
I always vote by mail very easy
@@sanSDI bei uns gibt es auch einen Zensus. Aber das Problem ist ja eher, dass man sich in der USA bei jeder Wahl registrieren muss. Oder werden da nochmal die Fragen gestellt?
America is a third world country right now difficult to go to the level of Germany
I'm not an American and we don't have the option to vote by mail. I live in a country where politicians cheat in every conceivable way. I remember when I was young, before we had electronic voting, votes were tallied by hand from the night of the election day to about a month until they release the final tally. Every election, it's a guarantee that electricity would go out for the night. Whether it's a national or local election.
To me, mail-in voting seems like something our corrupt politicians would exploit. How does your country combat this issue?
EDIT: I'm not implying that your elected officials are as corrupt as ours. With all the vote-buying, tampering and even murder, I just can't see mail-in voting being viable in my country.
Voting by mail has been common and legal for many years for every citizen in Germany. You know, a country with a real, functional democracy. And if bloody works!
Germany does that. Things there either work, or get booted up the rump until they do. If for no other reason than every German learning all about the last two times things didn't work there.
Is it just me or is John getting better without a crowd? His power is growing.
Ok here's the thing: I was born and raised in Germany. Voting there means you get mail from the government early enough. No matter if it is a national, statewide or local election, you get either to choose to vote on location at the day in a school or wherever or you can choose to vote by mail. In some states they'll send you the forms with the mail including a free envelope included that has a printed on prepay stamp. In others you can just ring up or write you want a form for mail voting. And then you can vote the way you like. And surprise: It works and we never really had substantial problems with voter fraud.
And now that they mentioned it in the show: A politician who urges citizens NOT to go to an election is a complete shame for a democracy and should immediately be thrown out. This is crazy illegal shit.
The US is not a democracy and I would argue a politician pointing out the flaws in a system used to determine the direction the country should take even though it would likely damage his numbers is a noble one.
Germany is one of the many civilized countries.
@@thomasmc9611 He was talking about the Missouri governor's statements at 4:05, I believe. What he said was downright freighting. By the way, the US is a representative democracy.
Right. You live in _Germany_ a normal, functional country. The United States is not that. Not even close. HELP US!!
I am a German guy... our biggest problem with the election system is the debate about a gender equality in the parliament.
When I saw this i thought that this is a report about rwanda or uganda....
John Oliver going OFF on Tucker Carlson is what I needed today.
I never fully understood the term “punchable face” before him.
Ayatollah Trump Ali gave ultimatum again!
That was great wasn't it? Especially with the shitshow everything else is right now.
I worked a polling station in my town, where people distanced on their own, wore masks, used sanitizer, acted with adult behaviour, modelled said behaviour for their children, brought their own pens, and were polite, respectful, and responsible. My town is in Canada, so...
Also... absentee and mail in ballots were ALL counted. No signatures were required.
What town had a recent vote in Canada?
@@oncoucharrest5910 the province of British Columbia
That whole pencil lecture was extremely confusing before I remembered that right, I'm an artist, most people don't have multiple pencils, a kneaded eraser, and an electric pencil sharpener on their desk at all times.
Imagine actually knowing where your art supplies are! I haven’t seen and eraser in months
Hello fellow fandom artist :>
The guy saying "no one under 65 can say they're afraid" is the same genius that said "we might need to let old people just die to let the economy open. I'm ready to die"
I am almost persuaded to reply to him, "Well, get on with the dying, then!"
Well, he should set a good example then.
Calling Tucker a "human boat shoe" was the laugh I needed today.
tuckers face is so punchable
Swear his ruthlessness is quite uplifting in this mess ha
My boat shoes are offended by this.
British humor? I don’t get the joke
Just looking at Tucker's face makes me laugh.........
The most interesting thing is that he himself voted via mail.
And, additionally, voting machines are much more vulnerable, as was shown here previously.
I love how I can look back at this show and afterwards see how absolutely PROPHETIC you were!!!
"Stop playing politics with our lives." That gave me chills.
It's true and it is sickening
Same. It's so true
noafproductions the US’ answer: NO. Never
Voting in Malta:
When you are born, you are given an Identity Number
When you are 18, you are eligible to vote
When there is a vote, you receive your voting document (which has your unique Identity Number on it) at home
On voting day, you go to your polling station with that voting document and vote
Done.
No registration, no fees, no hassle. It's called democracy, America, you should try it sometime.
Many of us would love to, but the powers that be have convinced about half of us that we don't.... Halp, please. 😢
I believe there's a segment on this very issue covered by LWT. The issue is that not all Americans have those Identity Numbers, and, as I understand it, it's quite the issue in America... as weird as it sounds.
Malta is hardly the bulwark of democracy - I mean, could your government be any more corrupt? But even your voting is on par with every other developed nation (and yes that excludes the us)
@Belial No.
People are against making people go out of their way/pay to vote because both of those are harder to do for poor people.
The thing talked about here happens automatically, hence no barrier to entry.
Incredible how you can miss that honestly.
@Belial - Weird, to me it sounded like the identity number thing was similar to a SSN....which we already have. Nothing in this comment reads voter id (an additional thing to a ssn/identity number)
I've lived in Oregon my whole life. And for over 20 years, we have exclusively voted by mail for every type of election. We don't have such a thing as in person voting. You also are automatically registered to vote when you turn 18 or get a driver's license unless you opt-out.
It's scary how accurate he was in this video with what's happening.
"Chernobyl casual" is the best way to describe Corona-fashion rn
Agreed
You're crazy, take this one to the infirmary.
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not casual.
Umm no not even close to accurate
WTF is "corona fashion"?
Voting in Germany:
You always have the option how to Vote. On the voting-day or by mail or weeks before the voting in registered places.
And in germany the voting-day is on the weekend and not in the middle of the week during working hours. (Who would've thought that the voter turnout is higher if ppl don't need to go to work at the same time/day. >_>)
@@Kakyo01 ya, for some weird reason Germany wants their people to vote...like, it's a democracy
Similar here in Sweden
And no one ever trots out these boogeymen of "voter fraud" to scare people over 55 with less ability to discern bullshit (thats science btw)
Du bist auch überall. Wait... Da ich das weiß, bin ich folglich auch überall🤔🤯 (we've definitely got too much thyme on our hands- get the reference🤨😁?)
My favorite photo of the situation in Wisconsin is that one of that guy standing in line (6 feet apart) holding a sign that simply said "THIS IS RIDICULOUS"
Another option: Get your ballot by mail, fill it out, and then drop it off at your nearest polling place or other designated ballot drop-off location. You can skip the line AND help keep the mail-in system from getting overloaded.
There are sooo many amazing quotes from the episode.
“Chernobyl casual”
“You Human boat shoe”
“First you have to know a dead person, which is hard they are anti-social”
And I am only halfway through. Thank you John!
Yes!!! Thought exactly the same thing. So rewarding.
"At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear" the official slogan of Taco Bell
Best comment by far.
Voting by mail is critical to military, homebound, elderly, and disabled. It has been used for decades and it works. Thank you for highlighting the truth about voting by mail!
I used it during college. Using it in this Election as well.
I think you are mixing up "Absentee" voting with "Voting by Mail". To vote Absentee in many states, one must swear to a listed valid reason as to why you cannot make it to the polls: student, disabled, etc. Simply not wanting to stand in line for hours is not a valid reason.
Edit: I am not personally saying not wanting to wait in line isn't a valid reason! That is simply what my state and many others have as laws on their books. It needs to change! I believe voting by mail AND online should be commonplace!
@@B_Bodziak Why is that not a valid reason? Unless proof of fraud can be shown, why is that not a valid reason? Who decides what is a valid reason and what isn't?
@@mourgraine221100 Oh, I agree that not wanting to wait in line IS a valid reason, but many states do not allow that!
Lll
Sometimes I remember that the past 14 months (and just the past four years in general) have not been normal and I get overwhelmed with realizing how absurd everything is rn
Watching this while Biden flipped Georgia with those mail-in ballots.. Trump is probably punching the air right now
He was right. It's not like he's saying he doesn't want people voting. He doesn't want people voting by mail because he's guaranteed going to lose that way. Any other way he will win. And as I'm typing this I'm sure 173,000 more ballots with Nov 3 dates in them that all go to Biden will show up at a polling place in North Carolina.
@@luiss.3866 Trump literally said "stop the count" lol
Military personnel all vote by mail while on base. Guess Trump doesn't love the troops after all lmao
@@LisaBeergutHolst the election was over. It doesn't extend until the democrat nominee wins a lead. That's what he meant. Stop accepting late ballots.
@@LisaBeergutHolst Military bases are an exception. They don't really have a choice do they? And trump doesn't love the military is just not true. The only time I can think of is when he had a rally and them the to "clap you stupid basterds" ... oh wait that was slow biden.
U.S. military personnel overseas and other overseas USG federal personnel have been voting by mail for YEARS, and none of these people had a problem with it then.
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear jon
AxxL That might be the random and irrelevant comment I’ve ever seen.
Because Democrats out number Republicans, so Republicans have to resort to voter suppression to stay relevant because after Trump Republicans are going to have a hard time appealing to his base when the day comes and Trump is no longer there for them.
The military has been voting by mail since 1864. republicans love riding the backs of the military all the while whipping the service men and women into subservience.
It’s funny to me how Carlson is either blatantly lying or has no idea what he’s talking about
“You don’t have a pencil sharpener, and if you do, answer me this: WHERE IS IT?”
Me, an artist: [looks immediately down and to the left] Right there…
Also me, who has bad memory: ………I mean, it was……
Me, a teacher...Same.
Also we are required to use black pen not pencil. Probably for security reasons
Me!
Me, an accountant: *looks down and to right at my collection of kid school supplies I buy after every back to school markdown* Try again Oliver, of course I buy so many because I keep losing them.
Mine's right behind me, but I only got it yesterday so I guess it's just a matter of time...
MECHANICAL PENCILS 4 LIFE!!!! WOOOO! \m/-.-\m/
Am an artist and haven't sharpened a pencil in 10 years!
(just don't ask were the replacement leads are)
I'm just watching this episode now. It's amazing how John predicted so many things that did happen regarding voting by mail.
I thought about the future next episode of Last Week Tonight airing with an audience and the loud applause, and a tear came to my eye. It will be a good time when that finally happens.
I didn't even know there was a third Hemsworth. This is big news.
There is also a fourth Hemsworth brother! Larry. He's a pediatric surgeon with severe self esteem issues. 😂😂😂 (watch The Good Place season 3)
He's on HBO's Westworld. Luke. He's aight.
😂
They actually used a Hemsworth brother to play Thor in the play that Loki put on in Thor Ragnarok
This is exactly what I was going to comment. Glad I saw this first -- no one likes a duplicate.
Third Hemsworth is no Hemsworth
The one he is referring to is the fourth one
There is sooooo much wrong with my homecountry of Germany, yet I feel like living in paradise every time I watch news from the US
You still have grass. It's not the greenest on your side, but you still have grass. The US has no grass
@@SpyroTheGerudo But luckily a growing lot of weed.
Exactly how I feel.
I spend a lot of my time participating in political groups in my hometown because there is just so much I want to change in Germany, but seeing the US is on a whole new level
Thank you so much for the suggestion!
It turned out to an excellent read!
I definitely wouldn’t come right now lol
Well this aged superbly well.
This should be trending # 1 right now. And for 2 more months.
"Dress Code: Chernobyl casual" almost choked me
Hear hear!
"chocked" 😭😂
AMAZING. I LOL'd but in a genuine sense. Actually had to stop it, and replay it... chuckled like a horse.
Good try with English! I believe you meant to say "almost choked me!" A chock (noun) is a wedge placed (chocked - verb) under a wheel to stop it from rolling.
@@TavisAllen Sorry mate, hard to keep up with all the 7 languages I speak :)
I've never voted in person. Every vote i've made my adult life has been by mail (Thank you Washington State).
I've been pissing Tucker off for years now and didn't even know it.
Thanks for making my day John!
Ive also only voted by mail my entire adult life #collegekeepingmeawayfromlocalpollingstations
A classical example of a person doing good deeds just naturally, without even realising it 😁
my man said: "your dress code is chernobyl casual". death has become me!!!
Watching this in November is a trip
The election was so nervewrackong, I had to go on my patio and smoke an entire joint by myself to relax
This year has been the longest millennium of my life.
Mood
Watching this after everything else that happened today alone, I thought this twitter mail voting thing was months ago
AMEN!! 👍
Let's Bern the whole place down!
Ok zoomer
"If you think you're in any way prepared to bring a working pencil to a polling station, you live in a fantasy world."
As a D&D player, I'm not sure if that was a shout-out or a call-out.
So specific, and yet
*sweats in online campaign*
man, i started playing DnD cus of corona, and now it feels like its everywhere lmao
I write, and use a mechanical pencil a lot, have plenty of HB leads and numerous extra erasers. 🤷♂️
@@elijahkulpinski4983 Yeah, I switched to roll20 for the lockdown and I really have no idea where my pencils are :/
Re: owning pencils. You underestimate my stationery obsession!
John Oliver is treasure. He's precious for us.
I'm from Estonia and we've had online voting with digital ID cards since 2005.
That sounds really cool.
Are the digital ID cards unique identifying numbers? Because in America we dont like being identified by the government.
You are also a tiny, homogeneous country of just a couple million people. Things are JUST a little bit easier for you guys to pull of because of that, than for say America.
@@kuttermcneil1520 lmao wut? You don't have a SSN? Driver's license? Passport? School records? Voter registration? Healthcare plan? Address? All of these are already identifying systems. One dedicated to online voting wouldn't be any more risky than anything else we already have.
@@Cooe. that is just a dumb argument that was true in the 19th century. Not anymore, computers don't care about this kind of stuff.
We have the tEcHnOLoGy
Quarantine agressive John is the best thing that came out of this Pandemic
"You human boat-shoe" is a FANTASTIC insult.
He brings me so much joy!
I agree, and would like to add in Simon Whistler from Business Blaze here on YT, watching these two slowly "adjusting" to quarantine has saved me from becoming completely feral, so far.
John is 'revenge' for the American Revolution-the best.
Jay RichRogers because he has an army of writers, and he says what’s written in a script they give him, you crayon chewing idiot.
What a truly prophetic video!
In Kentucky one of the difficulties is that while the state supposedly has certain requirements, those requirements are in force differently in every district. Being a truck driver from Kentucky I have continually been told that being out of the state were work is not a valid reason to get an absentee ballot. But they only tell you this after they check what party you are registered to vote for.
John Oliver's shows have remained consistently good since Covid19 broke out
I've had the same thought... Bill Maher, on the other hand, has dived in quality.
I suspect that a big part of that is that a lot of John is not only bearable but in fact a plus, because he's very charming, whereas Bill is only tolerable in small doses, preferably while he is surrounded by other people who are often brighter and more charismatic than he is. (I know Bill is bright, but he's not half as bright (or as infallibly right) as he thinks he is... he also lacks John's winsomely self-deprecating touch. Bill is self-deprecating only slightly more often than DJT.)
@@773SleepyHollow Bill feeds off his audience more than Oliver I think. Bill in his backyard is a little bit... meh. Whereas I don't even notice Oliver's lack of audience anymore. I still watch both though.
This discussion about voting via mail is just one of these things where I can't understand the USA..
I'm from Germany and voting by mail is completely normal and very easy; you can just apply for it on the City-Website, get it delivered in time fill it out and send it back.
In fact we had the mayor elections in march where the final ballot got held by mail ONLY due to the Coronavirus - everyone got his documents send to home without having to do anything. And nobody complained about fraud or anything. It's just completely normal and accepted here to vote by mail..
It's honestly only an issue here now because the current president is extremely divisive, and the Republican party is afraid that increased voter participation will cause them to lose. They're already building up the BS machine in an effort to disenfranchise voters/as a way of preemptively trying to discrediting the results should they lose.
Ironically the Republicans USED to be big proponents of mail in voting, because older people tend to be more conservative, and mail in voting helped make it easier for the elderly to vote.
Well there are European countries where voting by mail is impossible and which find that the possibility to do so is weird and dangerous. In France, voting by mail has been discarded since 1975, because of the potential for voting fraud.
These days there are people advocating for its return for our municipal elections' second round, but I don't think it's doable and I don't think it's whishable. Not even sure it's constitutionnal. People should vote on the same day, with the same information in hands (or at least the same opportunity to get such information).
That works here because you have to register your household with the local government, along with citizenship information, I believe. The fear in the States is that ballots would be sent to everyone regardless of immigration status.
@@adanflyber6341 Way to go Adan. Weird, dangerous, potential fraud, not doable, not wishable, not sure if constitutional. Spreading vague words around instead of actual arguments. The only point that comes near an argument is that every voter has to have the same level of information at hand. To that I reply: It's never guaranteed that every voter has exactly the same information at hand at any election. And this shouldn't be an issue anyway. In a free democracy you are supposed to vote for anyone you want for any reasons you want. Because you like the colour red more than blue or because you like one name more than the other. That vote is of the exact same value than that of professor whatshisname who has a masters degree in politic science.
@@adanflyber6341 German here, you can request a mail-in ballot and _drop it at the city's electoral office until __18:00__ on election day_ and it'll still be counted. And we have people here who do that every single time.
When you're voting by mail, you might miss out on stuff happening after you sent it back, that might change your mind. But at the same time you have way more time to research the people who are up to election than when you're standing in the booth and seeing their names for the first time.
Thank you for what you’re doing with your platform. You’re a better American than a depressingly large segment of Americans.
Everyone, everyone, honestly, observational criticisms and much-deserved headshaking aside, what can we actually do to protect this election? How can we help the USPS when they've just announced that 47 states might not get their ballots on time? Like, it's not enough just to let it happen and then go "Yep, that happened, damn this country sucks", we actually have to do something right now.
Appreciate your rightful sense of urgency.
“You human boat shoe” is the sickest burn I’ve ever heard
Laughed so loud at that
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear mays
It’s was brilliantly delivered! I laughed out loud as well.
Fucking epic. Tucker Carlson is one of the nastiest humans on this planet
I don't know, I thought, "At a certain point, hunger outweighs fear" being the motto of Taco Bell was the winrar.
2016: John declares that he is desperately looking forward to 2020
2020: John fondly remembers the good old days of 2016
This is a whole Mood
@@AWindy94 if youre a soft little baby. Sounding like boomers already
Remember his last episode of 2016 with the musical and fireworks that burned the numbers to a crispy pile of ash?
Imagine how epic this year's last episode will be. I'll breath a sigh of relief
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@@primarchkhas726 it doesn't take much to set you off huh
It's scary how accurate these predictions were
John should have put money on it for sure
"Hunger Outweighs Fear" Also the slogan of the Bolshevik Revolution. What? Too Soon? Ok I'll see myself out.
Two important takeaways from this video:
1. If Trump loses the election in November, his game plan is to scream voter fraud and cause chaos.
2. Tucker Carlson is a human boat shoe.
Until he declares a coup
@SnBergamo You could be right, but November is months off and who knows what else will happen between now and then.
So just like the dnc in 2016?
@@schaapje666 No like Trump in 2016, who screamed about fraud after having won! ;P
If Trump loses he won't hand over the White House to Biden and the secret service will drag him across the lawn kicking and screaming.
Gotta love how the "home of the free" is classified as a "flawed democracy" at best and how they think that higher voter turnout is somehow "bad" or "partisan".
João Luis Ramos Tavares lol! Because voter registry hasn’t been cleared and kept up on. They send ballots out to dead people and people who have moved.
@@CC-xf4pz you clearly didn't listen to anyone except trump
@@CC-xf4pz one would think that a technological powerhouse as the USA would be able to cross data between birth and death certificates and voter registration... but apparently they're fresh out of technology due to spying on their own citizens.
@@CC-xf4pz Yeah, but then that's not really "voting by mail is bad", it's "sending ballots out to dead people or to wrong addresses is a waste of paper". That's not a good reason to object to voting by mail in and of itself.
I think this may finally be the time where Americans realise their country is by far not the greatest place on earth.
Imagine telling your voters voting by mail is fraudulent, then losing because Biden's mail-in voters decided to vote 🤣
John Oliver is doing a great job of making me laugh without a studio audience.
Please keep in mind the postal service will be delivering all of those ballots to homes. We will be overwhelmed if people wait too long to ask for them. Please request absentee ballots early so we dont fall behind like the postal service already has with packages. Just a PSA from a postal worker.
Thank you for being a postal worker & I hope you are also active in your postal union. Times are getting tough for USPS under this clown.
Nice tip. Thanks!
thank you for what you do. and thank you for how much hard work and stress you must go through.
We could always get Amazon to deliver them...
This needs to be on top. Hit those likes!
I was honestly thinking the "getting ripped and shredded beef" part would lead to Adam Driver.
Don't worry, he's just pulling another trick on us, pretending to stop for a few weeks just to hit us when we least expect with a full two-minute ode of admiration.
Based on his tone I was expecting him to somehow bring Adam Driver into the pelican bit.
I'm actually a bit disappointed that he didn't bring up AD. 🤣
Me too 😂
I feel let down. lol
Yes I've belatedly discovered a gem in our Mr Oliver. Nobody back here in blighty has a clue who he is, how the hell did I miss that? Brilliant, thanks.
"Your dress code is Chernobyl casual" -- you kill me, John Oliver!
LOL!!!!!!
You want him to do what to you? :-)
Times I laughed this episode:
"Chernobyl casual"
"My beef is _shredded"_
"You human boat shoe!"
Taco Bell's slogan "At a certain point hunger takes over fear"
Weirdly shaped and disproportionately harmful to minorities got me
And the dead person is antisocial.
As an Oregonian, I died at "Dame Dolla for life".
You forgot:
Dame dolla for life
Oh wow...spot on!!
It's hilarious that as he was ranting about pencil sharpeners, mine was sitting in front of me. In my kitchen. Exactly where it shouldn't be.
Must’ve finally heard from Adam Driver’s attorneys.
😂😂😂
Underappreciated comment 😂😂😂
What a shock that the group that usually benefits from low voter turnout would encourage people to not vote and want to prevent voting by mail... It's almost like they know they're shit and don't want to loose power.
Electoral Boards throw out ballots. That's why they know it can be manipulated because they already manipulate votes.
lose*
The Dem primaries were cheated for Hilary in the last two primaries 😂 but okay
@@paulwinegardener8407 irrelevant.
*almost* 😂
He bloody well called it
This is so relevant right now. John, you need to do a follow-up.
John feels different this episode, I think he's hit his quarantine stride.
Which means something else is about to happen to scramble things up. 2020's motto is : "Don't get too comfortable"
Yea this is honestly the best episode since quarantine began.
How long in quarantine will it take for us to get a liberal Alex Jones? Oh don't tell me, I don't want that now that I think about it
He didn't have audience laughter and it screwed him up for a while, but now he can make the jokes without the laughter and it flows better.
*Jon
“Stop playing politics with our lives” well said ma’am.
“Chernobyl Casual” I’m wheezing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really don't get it XD I'm swiss, living in germany and receiving mail every few months to vote directly for some issues.
It works perfectly well!!!
I mean no offense, but who would have ever thought that Germany had something to teach us about democracy,? but clearly they do
"Just don't vote lol"
Excuse me? That sounds very anti democratic
@first last a democratic constitutional republic. This is the dumbest fucking take, we get it we are a representative democracy not a direct one, its still a democracy.
first last even if you want to be technical, we would be a constitutional democratic representative republic
Yep, from Missouri, can confirm he said this. 🤦🏻♀️ He’s following Trump to the letter. He and our senators don’t care about us.
@first last It means the same thing, by saying the US isn't a democracy you're saying the US is a dictatorship.
When Trump is 1 candidate & I’m still undecided about Biden.....I just might not vote.
People who have functioning pencils:
- D&D players
- Artists
im an artist and i dont even have a functioning pencil
To be honest, I play DnD 100% digitally. The only pencil I have is the stylus for my MS Surface Pro.
as an artist, i must agree......WHERE IS MY PENCIL SHARPENER ?????????????
Yup.
Mathematicians also have functioning pencils
"... and not in a good way."
That was brilliant.
17:26 - Hours after Biden's been elected. This was pretty bang on Mr Oliver.
Why does this always come out 5 minutes before I go to sleep...
Because you don't have HBO?
Because you don't live in Europe? It's 9am here.
@@MarcKloos jokes on you, I go to sleep at 8:55 a.m.
Lol
Because we just woke up here LOL
“No one has a pencil sharpener.”
The artists are angry, the graphic designers are googling 'what is a pencil?'
Why it's that beefed up, feature heavy, stick I use on my Wacom tablet or iPhone, right?
Fool I own mechanical pencils cause I like sketching before putting it on the computer
Lmao when Oliver talked about pencils I was like “suckerrrr I got mechanical drafting pencils with high quality erasers and eraser refills” 😂😂
I have two pencil sharpeners! One normal obe and obe with the two holes for different pencil thickness.
The drafters have a cup full of mechanical pencils on the desk. "What's a pencil sharpener?"
This aged well. John is a prophet
Or a leftist mouthpiece reassuring people it's totally legit before mass fraud takes place.
No, Trump is just that stupid and predictable.
Except we HAVE had mail in ballots for almost centurieS at this point(since it would have to be at least 2 to be plural). We have had nationwide mail in ballots since the mid 1800s.
If voting by mail is so "fraudulent", maybe our service members overseas shouldn't be voting by mail either.
What surprised me is that Twitter seems to know for sure that it isn't. Who are they to say what's right in this matter?
If voting by mail is so fraudulent, the president and his press secretary shouldn’t be doing it.
You guys are all missing the points, it is not about whether frauding is practical or material, it is about losing the whole confidence of an election because people will think REGARDLESS of the fact there was fraud or not, that there was fraud. This is why there should not be voting by mail, and every current usage for any serious election is a bad idea. Also Twitter did not win the argument with fact, and it is just their opinion. How dare they call their opinion fact ?
@Luís Filipe Andrade No one is obligated to vote if they feel it is risky. They have the right to vote if they want, but if they do not want to, well they do not that is fine.
Having been one myself, overseas service members often receive ballots late, their submitted ballots are not always timely received, and even when they are many states consider them provisional - meaning they are only counted in the event of a runoff and are subject to challenge and heightened scrutiny by the losing candidate.
So, all votes are not created equal. Just sayin’...
“First you have to know a dead person. That’s hard to do, they’re antisocial” COMEDY GOLD 😂
Kyle Davis no you don’t. The dead person could have lived at your residence at one point. Or in a nursing home... which if you look at the Covid death numbers in dem states, tends to be 40 some odd percent of the deaths because the Dems had a bill to keep and put Covid patients in nursing homes... think about that for a minute.
It’s been 2 months and I’m still laughing at “human boat shoe”
I live in colorado, one of the universal mail-in states, and i did get a "I Voted" sticker! 😁👍
I live in Washington state where we have had only voting my mail for years. I really like it, no standing in line and you can sit down with all your info and take time to carefully decide all your choices.
Which is likely one of many reasons they don't want you able to do it.
Oregonian myself, but I totally agree.
Yeah, I can research every candidate and resolution before I vote. I love that about WA.
Akmal Ibrahim So obviously a troll that you don’t even know how ridiculous this comment was.
@@akmal94ibrahim Okay, cool, but what's your point here?
If we can do taxes by mail, we can certainly vote by MAIL. “9.9
Absolutely true.
Word!
Wow, terrible comparison.
Taxes are done by name and can be corrected by name after the fact. Votes have to be anonymous and repeatedly stripped of any means to trace back any vote to the voter.
@@johndododoe1411 You clearly have never voted by mail. You have a form in it that includes your name and party registration that is returned with your ballot (they are just separate pieces of paper). They still check off your name when you vote.
I'm from Oregon and voted by mail for years. It was glorious and easy. No idea why this is a big deal.
17:35 spooky how spot on he was.
Is our census fraudulent? We used to have people go house to house to get that right. If we can trust the census, we can trust mail in voting.
My census was fraudulent. I always send in false information on the census...and I vote by mail every year. I'm probably screwing myself there somehow...
RealCoolGuy Why would you lie in a census?
@@patriciocastillo6246
He's too cool for school. You wouldn't understand, Mr. Square pants.
I'm fraudulent for accidentally claiming I was puppy on the census
We also have other sources of data to cross check the census, according to the people who didn't want the citizenship question on the census