Here’s some better ideas:
- Hold voting on the same day, across the board....local, State, Fed, primary, general.
- NO mail-in (excluding military), proxy, or absentee
- IDs required and finger in ink
- Purge voting rolls every other year, re-enrolled IN PERSON
Won’t matter if they’re open, or not. You can’t bother to vote/register, you shouldn’t be griping.
I’m with that: NO EARLY VOTING!
You need to show up at your local precinct polling place, where a witness can say, “Hey, that guy doesn’t live around here anymore!”
The craziest system I ever heard of, though, is the one they have in Louisiana: must be a holdover from the Napoleonic Code or something
Here’s a link to a listing of states and type primaries.
19 .. Open
27 .. Closed, includes DC
05 .. Other
https://grassrootsidgop.wordpress.com/list-of-states-with-open-and-closed-primaries/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States
In Memphis and Nashville you’d have to purge yearly. Our dead vote. Nursing home residents with severe Alzheimer, jail inmates all vote never leaving their facility. Dems go in and gather votes, they also are in the Pulpit. Which is ILLEGAL.
I always early vote, because you don’t know what life hands you. My late husband is a good example. We voted early for GWB, and election day I was burying him from a massive heart attack.
I have 2 very sick younger siblings to factor in.
TN at least requires a photo ID. And if you can’t afford 1, they will provide a NON DL photo ID. Some of that could be solved by putting photos on Medicare cards, and SS cards, change them every 5 yrs and go to plastic with security strips built in.