Vote-by-mail bill

we have a counting machine method too. (California)

 

WE vote by mail in Oregon. Gives us time to study the ballots and make informed choices (sez me) and they are not counted on the net. That would pretty much take care of election interference, I believe. The quicker this is done nationally, the better. Why should people have to drive somewhere and stand in line to cast ballots? (so in many places,"they"can exclude some voters, he says. )

 

I agree and would add that all hard copies be kept by the authorities and an additional original copy be kept by the voter. We don't need the Republicans to be harping about some hanging Chad. Computers have proven themselves to be vulnerable. We don't need votes switched after some hacker got in the system.

 

I would still want the voter to be able to challenge a discrepancy. Hard copies are needed until someone convinces me otherwise.

 

This kind of thing is why I make fun of you

 

Voting by mail sounds suss

But voting by smartphone would be more secure than ID checks at ballot boxes

 

How is it done in Aussie land?

 

that's pretty far out, man...

 

Wet. Two cyclones on either side of the country

 

Power To The People Brother! Forget The Alamo and Remember Kent State!

 

Willing to go along but would like to see it work first. Things work well in Colorado. Here in Indiana we are under total control of the Republicans.

 

Here in WA State we have vote by mail as well a plethora of drop off sites. As long as the community is responsible it works slick....got nothing to do with derogatory statements about liberals or leftists or minorities tho. That’s just the Republican kool aid talking.

 

It sounds real good at face value; but, we do need to fine tune it. (1) if our vote is public domain information, then the political parties will come knocking on your door and demand you vote for them, or pay you to vote for them. (2) Here in Indiana, they don't have party affiliation on the registration card. It's a trick the Republicans used to change the law, so they can send you their mail, and knock on your door. And believe me, they can get aggressive. So, I wish to see safeguards (3) let's make it so there is no intimidation of voters just as there cannot be intimidation of witnesses in a court trial. (4) The government agency in charge of elections should publish the candidate's position, right along with a ballot initiative so we could know in advance what we wish to vote on. (5) Dan Rostenkowski went to prison for violating the FRANKING PRIVILAGE of Congress, meaning he sent out flyers for his candidacy at tax payer expense. So, a strong argument can be made for tight control of political advertisements in that regard; moreover, with that same power we can eliminate false information and disinformation like that which Trump got against Hillary.

 

As soon as they setup a national vote by mail system they will shut down the US Postal Service...

 

I don't recall the postal service here in Oregon or up in Washington closing down because of vote by mail. I assume they prepare for extra mail as they do for xmas.

 

I was gonna say the Postal Service would probably lose the ballots. I get my neighbor's mail all the time. How hard can it be to deliver mail anyway? It's got the address right there on it.

Then we get the same mess as we saw in Iowa.

 

voting by smartphone would drop voter turnout to about 5%, considering the people who actually vote are typically the old folks who can't even figure out how to get to the internet on their phones.