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To: Dr. Franklin

Military personnel would obviously be the one big exception. It always has been. Military absentee ballots generally work well (except they failed big time in 2000).

“People often take work assignments away from home for months at a time” — the keyword there is HOME. People have a home. If you change domiciles, it isn’t that hard to go re-register to vote, get your sample ballot by mail, and go to your polling place. It doesn’t matter one bit how often you work in an office or work from home.

Elderly shut-ins can be visited by mobile vote registrars for registration purposes or to collect a ballot. Or they can use the limited traditional and legitimate UNCOMMON absentee ballot. I used absentee ballots in probably 50% of the elections I voted in over a three decade span because of extensive business travel.

The most mobile people are the homeless. Frankly, without a HOME, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

I did not pass any judgement of whether any of my ideas are actually doable. Some probably are, some not. But if we don’t put a strong stake in the ground, we’ll never get anywhere. It’s an old negotiating tactic to put in items that you know will be rejected by the other party and then you can wail and moan about giving them up.


35 posted on 11/29/2022 7:34:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“People often take work assignments away from home for months at a time” — the keyword there is HOME. People have a home. If you change domiciles, it isn’t that hard to go re-register to vote, get your sample ballot by mail, and go to your polling place. It doesn’t matter one bit how often you work in an office or work from home.

Related back to owning property, people who work away from their homes, have a right to vote there, and not at a temporary location. Before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, people couldn't change state citizenship as easily as today either. The problem with the mail in voting is that it is no longer limited, but has become universal by plan to be corrupted. We don't need excessive solutions that defy tradition, just a restoration of those traditional limitations.

Elderly shut-ins can be visited by mobile vote registrars for registration purposes or to collect a ballot. Or they can use the limited traditional and legitimate UNCOMMON absentee ballot. I used absentee ballots in probably 50% of the elections I voted in over a three decade span because of extensive business travel.

That's a very bad idea. In the cities, the only "mobile vote registrars" will be Dems. If controlled by the RINOs, they will fail to send people leaving the Dems operating unsupervised. We saw enough fraudulent voting from the senile in nursing homes in 2020 to know this is a problem.

The most mobile people are the homeless. Frankly, without a HOME, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
I did not pass any judgement of whether any of my ideas are actually doable. Some probably are, some not. But if we don’t put a strong stake in the ground, we’ll never get anywhere. It’s an old negotiating tactic to put in items that you know will be rejected by the other party and then you can wail and moan about giving them up.V


Well we have different purposes here. You want to vent. I am looking for meaningful, effective reforms that can and should be passed. Denying homeless people the right to vote isn't happening, but if a person is homeless, that person can't vote absentee from another state.
54 posted on 11/30/2022 7:13:11 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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