GannonFan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:42 am
Ibanez wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:18 am
So mail-in voting on a wide scale can be problematic? Sounds reasonable. Why not combine mail-in voting with early voting? Many states (especially red ones) already do early voting. If you can't get to the voting place 2 weeks before the election or bother yourself to get an absentee ballot then you shouldn't be voting anyway.
I honestly do not understand how we can have such bad voter rolls. We know where people live. When they move, we usually know where the mail is forwarded, their new ID has an address, etc... It's a multi-prong approach. Require an ID to vote (you already need an ID for so many other things that if you're 18+ w/o an ID then you've got bigger problems). It won't prevent 100% but it might help.
I know when me and the wife moved, maybe 20 years ago now, she was still on the voter rolls in 3 different locations - in the city where she was before we moved in together, at the apartment where we just moved out of, and then in the township where we had just moved to. Technically speaking, she could've voted in 3 different locations that day and no one would've noticed.
It is amazing how screwed up the voter rolls are and that we apparently have little to no way to correct them. I don't think we're really equipped yet for mass mail in voting - between the mail harvesting that went on in California in 2018, to the outright fraud that the GOP guy tried in North Carolina, there's just way too many loopholes in that system. The worst thing to do is to create a system that people have less faith in than compared to the current one - if we can't trust election results then we're screwed.
I agree, that the solution has to be having voting open for multiple days. If you have it opened for 2 weeks and people still can't get there to vote then it's on the voter, not the system. The voter has to take some level of initiative to vote, and showing up once over a 2 week period should suffice. I'm in favor of ID to vote, but I wouldn't get hung up on that.
I do think one of the bigger problems we have is with manpower - the younger generations just don't volunteer for civic duties like manning the polling stations. That's why you have them staffed, sparsely most of the time, with mainly older people. Rarely do you see a polling worker under the age of 50. Granted, it's tough to volunteer when you also have to work, but volunteering across everything (youth sports, food pantries, polling places, etc) is way down, so it's not just one thing. That's an obstacle to more time to vote - who's going to staff the polling places over a two week period?
Exactly. In the the past I was registered to vote in VA and TX. And then TX and PA. That happens with almost everyone who moves a lot.
160 million ish registered votered.
-How many millions of people would get sent multiple ballots because they were registered in multiple locations?
-How many dead people would be mailed ballots?
-How many non USC would be maied ballots (here legally or illegally.
-How many prior felons would be mailed ballots?
-How many tens of millions of people who had no intention of voting would be mailed ballots?
Talk about the opportunity for ballot harvesting..
If people want to vote by mail they can. Its called get off your arse and request an absentee ballot. I believe that can be done online, so you only have to mail in the ballot.
I don’t have a problem if allowed voting over a couple of days, including a weekend day.