OT: Voter ID

[broken record]

I'm not against vote by mail AS LONG AS the ballot is received by election day. I live in Colorado which is very blue but the election laws for receipt of ballots are strict. They tell people not to put ballots in the mail too close to election day because they won't be counted.
States like California intentionally allow ballots to be counted weeks late for a reason: to make it easier to harvest ballots post-election to nudge an election however it benefits them once they know the margins. We all hear that ballots post-marked after the election aren't supposed to be counted but do you really believe that?

 

[steinek11]

Agreed to an extent. If you have a proven medical disability that prevents you from going to the polls - it is your constitutional right to vote. Those individuals should be allowed to vote by mail or even better - a digital means of voting.

But yes. For your average Joe who only does mail in for conveinance, that should be done away with.

No. Only land owners that are men should be allowed to vote.

 

[steinek11]

Live in Washington and we have mail-in voting. I like it. You are required to register to vote so ballots are only mailed to registered voters. State employees working in the Department of Licensing can register people to vote when they get a driver's license. Here is where fraud has occurred as some of these state employees have registered people they know do not meet the requirements to be eligible to vote. The state hands out driver's licenses like candy. That is why TSA requires any Washington resident who fly to have an Enhanced Driver's License (EDL). To get an EDL proof of citizenship is required. This requirement has only been enforced by TSA the last year or so. I've had an EDL for years. An EDL also allows me to go to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean by foot, car or boat without a passport. Only Washington, Minnesota, Michigan and NY issue them.

Mail in voting is so rampant with fraud that civilized western democracies do not allow it. We are an outlier.

 

[SuperBigFan69]

I prefer a hand print have a scanner to scan your hand print sign in and vote , none of this mail in voting if the big cities have a big backlog open up more polling places

Voting should mean TONS of polling places and it should be easy to get there and vote. It should probably be a day off for people too.

 

[SuperBigFan69]

I'm not against vote by mail AS LONG AS the ballot is received by election day. I live in Colorado which is very blue but the election laws for receipt of ballots are strict. They tell people not to put ballots in the mail too close to election day because they won't be counted.
States like California intentionally allow ballots to be counted weeks late for a reason: to make it easier to harvest ballots post-election to nudge an election however it benefits them once they know the margins. We all hear that ballots post-marked after the election aren't supposed to be counted but do you really believe that?

But you know how many people would have to be involved in that kind of cheating? Once two people know a secret...it isn't a secret anymore.

So there must be some other form of cheating that is more sophisticated.

 

[Scoop123]

Voting should mean TONS of polling places and it should be easy to get there and vote. It should probably be a day off for people too.

Agree. No idea why they haven't done this yet (day off, at least for Presidential election years).

You seem to be pretty moderate politically, I've seen you lean both ways. The left seems very quiet on this topic on the board. Why will not a single Dem Senator support the Save Act when 71% of their party does?

Many on the right consider this the issue of our time. Without elections people can trust, the Republic can fall. Dems screamed 2016 was stolen, Some Repubs screamed 2020 was stolen. Yet, only one party wants to fix it. Why?

 

[SuperBigFan69]

Agree. No idea why they haven't done this yet (day off, at least for Presidential election years).

You seem to be pretty moderate politically, I've seen you lean both ways. The left seems very quiet on this topic on the board. Why will not a single Dem Senator support the Save Act when 71% of their party does?

Many on the right consider this the issue of our time. Without elections people can trust, the Republic can fall. Dems screamed 2016 was stolen, Some Repubs screamed 2020 was stolen. Yet, only one party wants to fix it. Why?

No idea...my guess is that most people (sane people) don't actually think that elections are really stolen. The amount of work involved in that and the amount of people that would have to shut their mouths about it, would be incredible.

Make it easy to vote....have an ID...those ID's should be free. Have the polls open 24/7 for 7 days...have the first Monday of voting be a federal holiday and have the Friday of voting be a federal holiday..

Done.

 

[QAnon399535]

Olive Garden endless pasta is more secure than US elections

President Xi is getting the red carpet treatment in September from USA.