Posted on 11/05/2020 5:59:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Down in Mexico, elections are on Sunday, and everyone is supposed to vote. The new president will take over in December, five months away.
President Trump and "Presidente-Electo" Andrés López-Obrador spoke by phone last week. They say that it went well. By the way, I will not be surprised if the two men meet in person, sort of like when President-Elect Reagan and President López-Portillo shook hands in January 1981 at one of the border bridges.
Mexico can teach us a thing or two about voting. The Mexicans have a wonderful voter ID system, as my friend Allan Wall explained:
Each Mexican voter has a government-issued photographic voter ID card, which he presents to election authorities. They have a book with the photograph of each and every voter precinct. Each precinct has such a book.
Across from the election authorities are seated representatives from various political parties. When the election authority at the table calls the name of the voter, his name is checked off in the precinct book. The voter also has his thumb stained with ink that wears off in a few days.
It's a wonderful system, and everyone south of the border speaks highly of it.
Recently, I told a Mexican that some Democrats call it racist to require a photo ID. He looked at me with astonishment and told me to explain it again. I did, and he used some expletive to describe the critics of photo ID.
When it comes to voting, and the integrity of voting, Mexico is doing it better.
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India does a better job too. Photo voter ID for everyone and the purple finger thing to make sure you only vote once.
I’ve spoken with Indians who were amazed by our lax ballot security.
Dems don’t want a decent system. They want to cheat!
I recall an ex novia of mine from Mexico explaining to me that her voting id was only for the purposes of voting and nobody ever asked for it as a regular ID. It only had a dedicated ‘voting’ purpose and no other.
Obviously. A country with five times our population and 1/10 the resources does a better job. That’s intentional.
On more than one occasion I’ve shown or offered to show photo ID to a poll worker (remember the big deal over getting Real ID or you couldn’t board a plane? and how you had to make an appointment and submit all sorts of documentation to get one?) and the poll worker responded with a flustered, “No, no, you don’t need to do that.”
“Recently, I told a Mexican that some Democrats call it racist to require a photo ID.”
Why is the accusation of “racism” being used as an all-purpose crowbar to pry away our liberties?
When I lived in MA I pulled out my ID, having come from a state with an ID requirement. I had a hand put in front of my ID and told ‘put that away!’ Now I live in a state which electronically scans my ID and makes me confirm my address.
Whatever you think of India maintaining a functioning democracy for 70+ years with such a huge population of poor people is quite an achievement.
I use my SC driver’s license when I vote. Easier than digging out my voter registration card out of the pile of various cards.
Yes, it is.
I do not understand the US system, as it seems SOOO open to manipulation! Here in Kanadahar, very few vote by mail, mostly Canadians living abroad. When they apply to get a Special Ballot, they include a copy of their B/C or page 3 of their Passport.
Otherwise, you can vote early at advanced polls, or an Elections Canada Office, or at your polling station on Election Day. In each of these, valid photo ID must be presented. If your name is not on the Official Voters List for that poll, you can vote there if you show proof of citizenship and a utility bill or something similar, with your address and name. The biggest thing is, PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP AND PHOTO ID.
Incwe you receive a ballot, your name is then manually stroked off the list of voters, so you cannot vote again. You then get a ballot (individually numbered), a strip with the ballot number is then torn off and collected, leaving the individually numbered ballot for you to complete.
You then physically complete your ballot with a pencil, fold the ballot and put it into the ballot box. There are scrutineers from the main parties at each polling station and they remain until all ballot are counted after the polls close.
Are there ways to cheat? Undoubtedly, but there doesn’t seem to be as much opportunity to cheat as in the American system. Of course, though of the same ilk, the Lieberals and NDP don’t seem to have the knack of jiggery-pokery that the Dhimmicrats have.
Prayers up for a PROPER result when all the smoke clears!
Some Americans treat Saturday as the holy day and do not operate machines.
Some Americans treat Sunday as the holy day and see it as a day of rest. There used to be blue laws in some parts of this country that restricted sales on tools and the like (the prohibition on beer and liquor sales at stores continues in some areas).
So if it were on the weekend, there would likely be some people who would not participate out of religious obligation.
Whatever you say, Comrade.
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