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Follow me on this if you would please, and see if we can compromise.
Lets say for non-arguments sake, at the very CORE of your quoted statement above, I’d have a tendency to agree with you with the following caveats’ - - -
* At all election levels *
US citizenship verification
Paper voting only
In-person voting only
No Mail-in voting, none
Confirmed photo ID, period
Confirmed signature, period
Active duty Military vote on base
Verifiable birth and death certificate verification
Verifiable social security number
Would you agree with ALL of that criteria, if I would agree to abolish the electoral college? All of the negatives of my criteria, aside.
If not, why, with some detailed explanation. Thanks in advance.
There's two problems with this. The first is a structural one. The federal government only has the power to get rid of the electoral college. It's up to the states to decide how to organize the elections. The second is that I would only accept those terms if there were additional rules in place to make it easier for people to vote. Otherwise, your caveats can be used for voter suppression by making it too hard for certain people to vote.
Nobody should be more than a ten minute walk from a polling place. Nobody should be more than a ten minute walk away from a location they can get a photo ID. There needs to be services for people who are disabled and can't leave their house. Those protect poor people and the elderly from being disenfranchised.
Thank you very much for the reply. I would agree with your comments. I’d bet (in person, not on this computer) we might agree/compromise on more important substance matters like this, than you and I disagree on here on this silly forum.
There's two problems with this. The first is a structural one. The federal government only has the power to get rid of the electoral college. It's up to the states to decide how to organize the elections. The second is that I would only accept those terms if there were additional rules in place to make it easier for people to vote. Otherwise, your caveats can be used for voter suppression by making it too hard for certain people to vote.
Nobody should be more than a ten minute walk from a polling place. Nobody should be more than a ten minute walk away from a location they can get a photo ID. There needs to be services for people who are disabled and can't leave their house. Those protect poor people and the elderly from being disenfranchised.
Then why all of the drop boxes for Dems and just a few scattered a long ways off for Reps and the Dems controlling most of the chains of custody????
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!
Here are the findings of the latest audit related to the election in GA. An audit team looked at the signature envelopes of 10% of mail-in ballots and:
"Of the 15,118 envelopes sampled, the following was found:
o Two of the ten previously identified ABM ballot oath envelopes should have
been identified by the Cobb County Elections Department as requiring an
opportunity for the voter to cure the ballots prior to acceptance.
o No fraudulent absentee ballots were identified during the audit."
Here are the findings of the latest audit related to the election in GA. An audit team looked at the signature envelopes of 10% of mail-in ballots and:
"Of the 15,118 envelopes sampled, the following was found:
o Two of the ten previously identified ABM ballot oath envelopes should have
been identified by the Cobb County Elections Department as requiring an
opportunity for the voter to cure the ballots prior to acceptance.
o No fraudulent absentee ballots were identified during the audit."
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