CDZ I am For Picture ID For Voting

[candycorn]

As for voter ID laws and requiring picture ID to vote in elections; it's off topic. But welcome none the less.

No it is not off topic. Your topic relates to photo ID to vote in elections. Photo ID is not required for absentee voting or for mass mail-in voting. You brought up absentee balloting and mail-in voting in your OP.

Fear of "ballot harvesting" is about the same as worrying about a meteorite hitting your house.

Not so. Ballot harvesting has already been used to stuff ballot boxes and magically produce boxes of "misplaced" ballots. Here's just one article on the shanannigans that accompany ballot harvesting.

How Ballot-Harvesting Became The New Way To Steal An Election

With ballot-harvesting, paper votes are collected by intermediaries, presumably increasing voter turnout but also creating opportunities for mischief.

thefederalist.com

It'll be fine. All the more reason to expand early voting uniformly across the nation; have a hard and fast ratio between polling places and populations (or registered voters if you prefer) which includes the number of balloting devices if they are in use--which they should be; and an increase in vote-by-mail. Standardize the rules across the nation, make it easy to understand and insist on picture ID when voting in person. As long as they are free; there isn't an undue burden.

You're treading on States Rights now.

Hardly. It would require cooperation and a new less crazy approach to voting. Two things republicans can't do.

The scenario you described had a truck driver stopping in one state and immediately obtaining a ballot from his precinct in another state. That would include ALL political races and referendums/propositions on the ballot in the truck driver's precinct. Using voting machines to accomplish this would expose the system to errors and fraud. As I said, a nightmare.

Ok.

 

[asaratis]

As for voter ID laws and requiring picture ID to vote in elections; it's off topic. But welcome none the less.

No it is not off topic. Your topic relates to photo ID to vote in elections. Photo ID is not required for absentee voting or for mass mail-in voting. You brought up absentee balloting and mail-in voting in your OP.

Fear of "ballot harvesting" is about the same as worrying about a meteorite hitting your house.

Not so. Ballot harvesting has already been used to stuff ballot boxes and magically produce boxes of "misplaced" ballots. Here's just one article on the shanannigans that accompany ballot harvesting.

How Ballot-Harvesting Became The New Way To Steal An Election

With ballot-harvesting, paper votes are collected by intermediaries, presumably increasing voter turnout but also creating opportunities for mischief.

thefederalist.com

It'll be fine. All the more reason to expand early voting uniformly across the nation; have a hard and fast ratio between polling places and populations (or registered voters if you prefer) which includes the number of balloting devices if they are in use--which they should be; and an increase in vote-by-mail. Standardize the rules across the nation, make it easy to understand and insist on picture ID when voting in person. As long as they are free; there isn't an undue burden.

You're treading on States Rights now.

Hardly. It would require cooperation and a new less crazy approach to voting. Two things republicans can't do.

The scenario you described had a truck driver stopping in one state and immediately obtaining a ballot from his precinct in another state. That would include ALL political races and referendums/propositions on the ballot in the truck driver's precinct. Using voting machines to accomplish this would expose the system to errors and fraud. As I said, a nightmare.

Ok.