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Old 09-14-2021, 05:10 PM
 
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Weird how the longest in-person lines are in the poorest neighborhoods. Of course, if we switch to mail-in voting the Republicans will probably just sabotage the post office oops they already did that in 2020.


Anyway, if you are going to demand an ID to vote in federal elections, I assume you'll demand the implementation of a free federal ID for voters.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:13 PM
 
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA, Earth
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Weird how the longest in-person lines are in the poorest neighborhoods. Of course, if we switch to mail-in voting the Republicans will probably just sabotage the post office oops they already did that in 2020.


Anyway, if you are going to demand an ID to vote in federal elections, I assume you'll demand the implementation of a free federal ID for voters.
How would we enforce the poll tax if we do that?
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:14 PM
 
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Everyone else show up, show your ID and vote! Have the polling stations at LTCH so that accessibility is not an issue. If you can't make it on election day, vote at the advance pool. This will ensure that an old, senile, non charismatic person, that doesn't campaign and has no platform receives the most ballots in recorded history yet somehow all these ballots, err I mean voters do not tune in the watch his first presidential address. It's ludicrous that you can have a person casting a vote without showing ID. Vaccine passport is not deemed racist yet asking a voter for ID is! Such hypocrisy!
Yeah… no… I don’t need to waste time at polling stations. Far more efficient to vote by mail.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:18 PM
 
Location: NC
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Everyone else show up, show your ID and vote! Have the polling stations at LTCH so that accessibility is not an issue. If you can't make it on election day, vote at the advance pool. This will ensure that an old, senile, non charismatic person, that doesn't campaign and has no platform receives the most ballots in recorded history yet somehow all these ballots, err I mean voters do not tune in the watch his first presidential address. It's ludicrous that you can have a person casting a vote without showing ID. Vaccine passport is not deemed racist yet asking a voter for ID is! Such hypocrisy!
Throwaway account? I read this exact description of Biden and complaints about voting by "another" poster today. Funny.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:19 PM
 
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So if you take away mail in voting then add poling sites, machines, opportunities to vote in person.
If you can make voting secure on election day -- why can't you use the same process for early voting?

Reducing hours, voting sites, early in person voting and claiming it is all in the need for election integrity is bull and we all know it.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:20 PM
 
Location: In the middle of nowhere... and enjoying it
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Well then you should be happy with the situation, since we do.
Mailing ballots to every registered voter without purging the voter role every year doesn't make for voter integrity IMHO.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:26 PM
 
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Right. It became a "problem" solely because Trump said to not trust mailed ballots.

Look how many people believed him for that unfounded lie.
I used to receive absentee ballot applications and/or instructions on how to apply for an absentee ballot from the local Republican party.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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I've been voting by mail in my state for 25 years. I would never want to give it up. Nor would the 85% of voters in the state that vote that way. It was never a problem until Trump came along with his lies.
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Old 09-14-2021, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA, Earth
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Mailing ballots to every registered voter without purging the voter role every year doesn't make for voter integrity IMHO.
Sending every recently relocated or deceased person ten, a hundred or heck a thousand ballots doesn't make for a security flaw either, though it does waste some money. NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS until it is marked and mailed back.

Should we embargo the supply of blank copy paper, manila envelopes and computer printers on the off chance that some wag could use them for voter fraud?

The right to vote is enshrined. How many voters should be denied their right to make you feel better?
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Old 09-14-2021, 06:34 PM
 
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Here's who should be able to vote by mail:

1) Military personnel stationed overseas (or out of their home state)
2) Elderly over 70 and/or those with disabilities

That's it.
If you have the polling station at LTCH the elderly need not vote by mail.

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Voting by mail has been a thing since the 1800s. Evidently no one saw it as a problem until the 2020 election.
It became a problem when an old uncharismatic politician with dementia, that did very little campaigning, receives the most votes, err I mean ballots, in the history of humanity. The vast majority of the ballots came by mail, no ID required. It's incredible how so few tuned in to view his first presidential address considering he's the most popular politician in the history of humanity!


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It's 2021, I don't wanna dedicate my entire day to waiting in line.
That's why you have advance polls! No line-ups in advance polls. Each state should initiate this practice


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ltch?

L T C H ?
Long term care home, that's where polling stations need to be set up.
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