I remember a popular liberal saying after the 2000 election that Republicans are crying about voter fraud which has no impact on the results but meanwhile in Florida they committed election fraud. Not just one vote here and there. They stole an entire state. Who knows if Florida 2000 was the only time they did it. Some think they even stole Ohio in 2004. Kerry wanted a recount so Ken Blackwell hurried up and certified the vote and the rule was no recount once the votes have been certified.No, its not about stopping poor people from voting, its about making sure legal people are voting.I don't know. They ask a couple questions. What's your address for example. Anyways, you do realize if this happens it maybe happens once or twice in each state. Not even. So why are you so worried about this?Don't know, my point was, its that easy for someone to commit voter fraud if all you have is a list, and someone's word that they are being honest about who they are.Is that happening?John Jones walks in: "hello, I'm Dave Davidson, and I'm here to vote"In my area they have a paper list of all registered voters in the district. You walk in, they ask your name, you tell them, they cross off your name, you go vote.
Works great.
"OK Mr Davidson, we got you on the list"
A few hours later...
John Jones walks in "hello, I'm John Jones, and I'm here to vote"
"OK Mr Jones, we got you on the list"
A few hours later....
Dave Davidson walks in: "hello, I'm Dave Davidson, and I'm here to vote"
"I'm sorry, Mr Davidson, we show that you have already voted, I'm afraid you can't vote because we have no way of proving you didn't vote"
It's more likely you are just trying to make it harder for poor people to vote.
If someone is a registered voter they should be able to get an absentee ballot no reason needed and they should be able to mail in their vote. And I sort of liked it that because of the pandemic they mailed EVERYONE an absentee ballot. It showed a lot of people will vote if they can mail in vote.
If these new rules stopped a lot of Trump voters from voting I bet you wouldn't be pushing for these new voter laws. I bet you'd want to make it easier for them to vote. And then maybe I would be like you. I'd be against the masses voting because "they are stupid".
Sorry but picking a Republican or Democrat to lead isn't about being smart. For a rich person, it's smart to vote GOP. For a poor person, it's smart to vote Democratic. It's the GOP's responsibility to represent poor and stupid people too not just smart and rich people.
So why are you so worried about this?
Why are you not worried about this? Do you not want to make sure that only legal and legitimate votes are counted?
And I sort of liked it that because of the pandemic they mailed EVERYONE an absentee ballot. It showed a lot of people will vote if they can mail in vote.
Sure, its convenient, but surely you can see the flaw in blindly sending out millions of ballots, especially when you don't allow voter role purges. Many ballots will find their way to the wrong people, former addresses, people who have died, and some people will use that as a way to commit fraud because they will send those illegitimate ballots back in, and nobody will ever be able to catch them.
1. Voter purges are not only allowed, they're encouraged. But like all things, the devil is in the details. Purges without notification, and done close to elections are barred. Ongoing purges of names with notifications being mailed out, and a reasonable time frame for the voter to respond, a second and "final notice" of purge, all done with no names being removed within 6 months of an election, should be SOP.
2. All mail in ballots require ID. The difference between Dems and Republicans, is that Dems will accept all forms of ID, and Republicans want very limited forms of ID and verifications, which are designed to limit specific blocks of voters.
3. Mail in voting has been in place since the Civil War. There has never been any cases of significant voter fraud using mail in ballots.
4. In the instances where there have been large cases of voter fraud, the voter ID laws being proposed by Republicans would have had absolutely no impact in preventing these voter fraud cases.