Can you say "Motor Voter?"
My wife just got 2 absentee ballots. One with Full Name, one with initials. Guess she can vote twice this year.
I would believe it....
its going to be nuts....im going to vote and then play playstation all day so I dont get too crazy about it....
It's unpopular, but I think we need to eliminate absentee ballots. In my uneducated opinion, they're vehicles for voter fraud.
Now... I said I was uneducated. I don't know how to ensure that servicemembers are not disenfranchised, or how to fix the other problems that absentee voting corrects if you do away with the process of absentee voting.
As I see it, the problem is maintaining the idea of one person, one vote. We've got to fix the problems with vote fraud in this country. We MUST. As much as I don't like the idea, the only way I can think of to do it is to have some kind of national database (maybe based on your driver's liscense number or SSN?) that instantly checks you off as having voted, but obviously not recording who you voted for. Then, you could not vote again in that race. I have no idea how to secure that type of system, but it's the only way I can think of to eliminate vote fraud. Do any of you other, more educated and better informed FReepers have any ideas?