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<\/p>\nThe Conservative Treehouse<\/p>\n
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots and votes.\u00a0 It appears in some states this is the \u2018new normal.\u2019<\/p>\n
Where votes were the focus, the Biden administration suffered losses.\u00a0 Where ballots were the focus, the Biden administration won.<\/p>\n
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Perhaps the two states most reflective of \u2018ballots\u2019 being more important than \u2018votes\u2019 are Michigan and Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Despite negative polling and public opinion toward two specific candidates in those states, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman achieved victories.<\/p>\n
Whitmer and Fetterman were not campaigning for votes, that is old school. Instead, the machinery behind both candidates focused on the modern path.\u00a0The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection and ignored the irrelevant votes as cast.<\/p>\n
Since the advent of ballot centric focus through mail-in and collection drop-off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes.\u00a0 As a direct and specific result, ballot collection has become the key to Democrat party success.<\/p>\n
The effort to attain votes for candidates is\u00a0less important<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0than the strategy of collecting ballots.<\/p>\n It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different election systems.<\/p>\n The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.<\/p>\n A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area.\u00a0 However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and\/or registered individual.<\/p>\n While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both \u201cballots\u201d and \u201cvotes,\u201d weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.<\/p>\n While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of \u201cexpanding democracy,\u201d a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.<\/p>\n The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making \u2018ballots\u2019 the strategy for electoral success.\u00a0 Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage.\u00a0 Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.<\/p>\n Democrat party officials and political activist groups knew how to exploit the opportunities within the new system of ballot distribution and collection, and when you combine that with a massive legal pressure campaign to accept any and all forms of ballots, well, you can see how they are dependent.<\/p>\n Now that ballot collection has been shown to be a much more effective way to maintain political power, Democrats in a general sense are less focused on winning votes and more focused on gathering ballots.<\/p>\n When \u2018ballot organization\u2019 becomes more important than \u2018vote winning,\u2019 you modify your electoral campaign approaches accordingly.\u00a0 It might sound simplistic, but inside the distinct difference between\u00a0ballots<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0votes<\/em>\u00a0you will find why refusing debates is a successful strategy.<\/p>\n If you are trying to win votes you could never fathom campaign success by refusing to debate an opponent.\u00a0 However, if your focus is centered around ballot collection, the debate is essentially irrelevant.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes.\u00a0 Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different electioneering systems.<\/p>\n You can vote at any scale you want. However, when\u00a0ballots<\/em>\u00a0are more important than\u00a0votes<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the election will always favor the former.<\/p>\n Michigan and Pennsylvania\u00a0voters<\/em>\u00a0are likely very unhappy today, while Michigan and Pennsylvania\u00a0ballot providers<\/em>\u00a0are smiling.<\/p>\n If Democrats had to win individual \u2018votes\u2019 to gain election success, they would be at a disadvantage.\u00a0 As long as Democrats only need to gather \u2018ballots\u2019, they have a path to winning elections.\u00a0 The processes of electioneering are all modified accordingly.<\/p>\n Campaigning, advertising, promoting, debating, hand-shaking, crowd attendance and venues for rallies, along with physically meeting people and convincing them of your worth, are only important if you are trying to win votes.\u00a0\u00a0Fortunately for Democrats, modern electioneering via ballot collection does not require these arcane efforts. So, in the larger picture of what you now see in elections, Democrats have stopped wasting time doing them.<\/p>\n Republicans are running around trying to convince people and win votes.\u00a0 Meanwhile, who needs voters? Democrats have skipped all of that old fashioned stuff and modified all of their electioneering systems to quietly and efficiently collect ballots.\u00a0 Yesterday you saw the outcome.<\/p>\n Haven\u2019t you noticed?<\/p>\n It really is that simple.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3d-election-map-2.jpg\")
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