Being that voting is a privilege of living in this republic, I don’t think that it’s too much to task that everyone make the effort to show up on a particular day to cast their ballot.
I think we should outlaw vote by mail, early voting, absentee voting and any other forms of voting that require the voter to make the least little bit of effort to have their voice heard.
I hate early voting.
If it were up to me there would be minimal absentee voting, no early voting, and you would have to register at the secretary of state office with no other options.
Why is it OK to use a church as a polling station, Black or otherwise? I though we had “separation of Church and state”, so the atheists tell us. Never mind, the atheists are too busy warming up for the spate of lawsuits against shopping malls and municipalities that dare put up Nativity Scenes or Menorahs for the upcoming holiday season.
I’ve come to the conclusion that while we need voter photo ID now, we should aim for replacing it with biometric ID. Any one interested in voting would be required to have their biometric data (fingerprints, iris scans, facial recognition and, yes, even DNA). Getting that data is getting cheaper and cheaper as new, more efficient, technologies are developed.
Hell, we can NOT access our home defense handguns without first passing a biometric test. In our case the ID is by a fingerprint reading and matching to fingerprints previously “registered” as allowed to access the handgun containers. The access process takes literally only a couple of seconds.
The good news is that undetected rapists and murderers would not be voting as they (e.g., Jesse Matthew Jr. - the Virginia abductor) would want their “forensic” data to be matched with crime scene evidence. W’e be better off if such creatures were not voting.
Lets get back to basics!
One day! One Vote! Inked Finger! Polls close at 8 PERIOD! Counts given within the hour! No more stallin to stuff the box!
The real purpose of early voting is Vote Fraud. No other way to rationally look at it.
But if that's a problem, a voter can request a ballot, by mail, for early voting. So the unqualified voters can register by mail or show up with weak ID and then always vote by mail without more ID! What's to stop someone from requesting someone else's ballot and filling it in? For early voting, the voter in Cuyahoga county goes to a single location in Cleveland, so there's no local scrutiny. Before Obama's first election they had registration parties downtown, and the same day people registered, they were brought to the voting location!
It's harder to sign up for the local rec center and pay their fee. Besides proof like a driver's ID, I'd have to show two utility bills with my name and address! How does paying a utility bill have a direct one-to-one correspondence with being a resident?
I'd wager Republicans would always win in OH if they ever cleared up the registration and voting mess.
Ohio Ping
Was it Lenin who said it doesn't matter who votes, all that matters is who counts the votes?
Add to that, "who gets his name on the ballot."
This could be series. And hugh.
Early voting,”motor voter”,etc...all vehicles for voter fraud on a massive scale!
FOUR FULL WEEKS of early voting isn’t enough? What do they want 24/365?
It's the other groups that have turnout problems.
-PJ
5-4 is way too close. We need a GOP Congress and POTUS in 2017.
Interesting, if the church was not “Black” would the IRS be all over them for even breathing politics? /rhetorical
Wait; That wouldn't fly today. But it would work. (ducking)