There's only one way votes should be counted.

[The2ndAmendment]

1: Every registered voter is mailed an ID card for that election (registration is free and so is the annual voting ID card).

2: That ID card is forfeit when ballot is going to be cast and stapled to the ballot.

3: Every ballot has an ID number.

4: Voters are taken in chunks of 50. They cast their ballot.

5: The ballot card's ID number is read aloud publicly and their vote is tallied in public (voter's ID is kept secret).

6: After all 50 ballots are counted, the voters are free to leave. If any group fails to accumulate 50 voters in 30 minutes, the ballots are tallied, and the voters are free to leave.

Rinse and repeat from step 4.


7: If the voter (by their ID) notices that their ballot is being incorrectly casted, they may step forward publicly and fix the error. If this occurs more than 25 times (or more than 1% of the ballots, whichever is less) the entire election is voided and must be held again the next week. If this happens more than three weeks in a row, no one wins, and all offices are vacant until a fair election is conducted.

 

[Moonglow]

30 minutes? Where I live it takes about ten minutes to vote..

 

[occupied]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Election day isn't a holiday here. Most people have jobs, and don't have time to wait hours to vote because of your ridiculous paranoia.

 

[saveliberty]

Anyone realize Congress votes with ID cards? Wonder why?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Anyone realize Congress votes with ID cards? Wonder why?

No, Congress votes by roll call, or by pressing a "Yea" or "Nay" button on their desks.

Where did you pull this "ID card" thing from?

 

[Siete]

what keeps dems from stealing republicans election cards in the mail and voting for a dem???


LMAO

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

 

[occupied]

what keeps dems from stealing republicans election cards in the mail and voting for a dem???


LMAO

In their minds there is no way America voted twice to elect a black man president, must have cheated, in the meantime not a one of them gives a shit about official vote tampering, the real way to steal an election.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

 

[occupied]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Good thing people like you are not in charge of the sacred basis of our democracy. Tamper with the process all you want but it will not stop the demographic shift away from elderly conservative white people having the bulk of electoral power.

 

[occupied]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Because their true goal is make sure only the right people have easy access to the polls, everyone else must face discouraging challenges.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Your emotions don't trump our right o bear arms anymore than one's stupidity and impatience trumps our right to fair elections.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Because their true goal is make sure only the right people have easy access to the polls, everyone else must face discouraging challenges.

Who are they right people?

 

[saveliberty]

Recorded votes in the House were traditionally cast using a complex system of tellers. This was replaced by a system where votes were cast via a ballot-like system with cards colour-coded for “yea” “nay” or “present.” Both of these methods took a long time to tally and did not allow for House leaders to have live vote totals. Beginning in 1972, the House has used “electronic-devices” for voting. These machines feature three buttons; again, “yea”, “nay”, and “present”, and a slot for a card that featured a magnetic strip with a validation code unique to each congressperson. This greatly increased the speed of voting and resulted in a large increase in the number of recorded votes.

Congress Types of Voting in Congress by Chris Kniesly

Yep, they use voter ID since 1972

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Your emotions don't trump our right o bear arms anymore than one's stupidity and impatience trumps our right to fair elections.

My "emotions"?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Because their true goal is make sure only the right people have easy access to the polls, everyone else must face discouraging challenges.

Who are they right people?

The people who agree with you, of course.

Can't have those inconvenient people who don't vote the way you want voting, after all.

 

[occupied]

Making it harder and more complicated to vote and making it confrontational to boot is a sure way to make sure that people do not vote. Voting should be as easy as humanly possible and the polls a welcoming place where democracy is celebrated not rationed out by suspicious people who are all too eager to throw your vote in the trash.

If this is too complicated, then that person shouldn't vote. Declare Election Day a National Holiday, good point.

Why is it that the people who talk so much about "freedom" are always so quick to declare that other people "shouldn't vote"?

Because their true goal is make sure only the right people have easy access to the polls, everyone else must face discouraging challenges.

Who are they right people?

To you? I have no idea, but to the voter fraud paranoiacs it is upper-middle-class white men over fifty.

 

[saveliberty]

Congress uses voter ID, because it is important each vote be legitimate.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Too complicated. Shoot anyone in line wanting to vote democrat.