"We should use the scanning machines to build some new environmentally-friendly coral reefs for sea critters, and go back to watermarked, serial-numbered paper ballots. Period."
But wait! There's more! after that "Period".
Picture ID.
Index fingers dipped in ink.
Early voting banned. Motor/voter registration banned. Same-day registration b…
"We should use the scanning machines to build some new environmentally-friendly coral reefs for sea critters, and go back to watermarked, serial-numbered paper ballots. Period."
But wait! There's more! after that "Period".
Picture ID.
Index fingers dipped in ink.
Early voting banned. Motor/voter registration banned. Same-day registration banned.
One day only - a weekend day - make it a national holiday, for voting.
Not so fast Andrew! I’ve used a mail in ballot once when I’d had knee surgery and couldn’t walk yet on Election Day, and now I have another surgery scheduled ON Election Day! You rarely get to name your date when it comes to surgery and there are legitimate reasons for mail in or early voting. I’m happy to say that my state of Texas watches it carefully. After using the mail in ballot, they automatically sent one to me for the next election, but I was able to go to the poll then, so when I signed in, they said…”our records show that a ballot was mailed to you and we cannot allow you to vote until you surrender that ballot”! Thank goodness I had just laid it aside, and I was happy to drive home, pick up the unused mail ballot and drive straight back, to hand it over and cast my vote! It wouldn’t have occurred to me to vote twice by using it, but I’m sure happy to know that my state watches for the unscrupulous people who would do that.
"After using the mail in ballot, they automatically sent one to me for the next election, but I was able to go to the poll then, so when I signed in, they said…”our records show that a ballot was mailed to you and we cannot allow you to vote until you surrender that ballot”! Thank goodness I had just laid it aside, and I was happy to drive home, pick up the unused mail ballot and drive straight back, to hand it over and cast my vote! It wouldn’t have occurred to me to vote twice by using it, but I’m sure happy to know that my state watches for the unscrupulous people who would do that."
Your state doesn't do that; one single person did that. Imagine how many polling stations DON'T exercise that kind of diligence over mailed ballots.
NFW on mail-in ballots other than demonstrated-need absentee ballots, and NFW on early voting. IMO.
Jeff didn't posit that absentee voting would be scuttled, only that it would be greatly curtailed and only available if requested.
From the segment about Delaware: "It only allows for absentee ballots upon a valid request, where there is a good reason why someone is physically unable to vote in person."
That would cover you.
But early voting? NFW. How many people vote early, and die before Election Day? I don't know, but their votes shouldn't count. Otherwise, I want ballots for the next 20 years, because I know I'm going to vote GOP and I'd like to do it early.
Secondly, candidates run their campaigns with Election Day as the endpoint. An early vote is to one degree or another an uninformed or at least an ill-informed vote, because it cannot take into account anything that happens between the early vote and Election Day.
Just think how many people's early votes would've been different because of Hunter's laptop if there weren't early voting...and if the story weren't suppressed by the corrupt media.
I just went through Texas Poll Worker Training. This is, in fact, how mail-in ballots are supposed to be processed, with the exception of the automatic sending for next year. When a person requests a mail-in ballot, they are supposed to mark for which elections or "annual". If the request is for annual (only for 65/older or voters w/disabilties) the voter will automatically receive a mail-in ballot for all elections that voter is eligible to vote in for ONE YEAR (Jan-Dec) only. Did you request a mail-in ballot again or were these elections in the same calendar year (Jan-Dec)? There shouldn't be any automatic year to year mail-in ballots sent out in Texas.
When you go to the polls, your ID is scanned and the system tells you if a mail-in ballot was sent to that potential voter, and if it was received back. In your case, the poll worker handled your mail-in ballot correctly by making you surrender it before letting you vote in person. You also could've filled it out and turned it in at the polls.
Yes, the elections were in the same year. I'd never done a mail-in ballot before so I didn't know much about how they worked. And I was so glad to be able to walk again after my knee replacement that I was happy I could go to the poll and vote in the run-off election. I know there may be some level of fraud with mail-in ballots, but I still maintain that it should be available for disabled voters. And I think Texas does a pretty good job of preventing voter fraud.
Bravo to you for being a poll worker! I wish I could, but I'm not up to it, I'm actually having surgery this year ON election day.
Let's not use the scanning machines to create artificial reefs. Electronics contain lead, arsenic, and other things we don't want in our waters. Hardly environmentally-friendly.
"We should use the scanning machines to build some new environmentally-friendly coral reefs for sea critters, and go back to watermarked, serial-numbered paper ballots. Period."
But wait! There's more! after that "Period".
Picture ID.
Index fingers dipped in ink.
Early voting banned. Motor/voter registration banned. Same-day registration banned.
One day only - a weekend day - make it a national holiday, for voting.
Civics test...hey, I can dream!
Not so fast Andrew! I’ve used a mail in ballot once when I’d had knee surgery and couldn’t walk yet on Election Day, and now I have another surgery scheduled ON Election Day! You rarely get to name your date when it comes to surgery and there are legitimate reasons for mail in or early voting. I’m happy to say that my state of Texas watches it carefully. After using the mail in ballot, they automatically sent one to me for the next election, but I was able to go to the poll then, so when I signed in, they said…”our records show that a ballot was mailed to you and we cannot allow you to vote until you surrender that ballot”! Thank goodness I had just laid it aside, and I was happy to drive home, pick up the unused mail ballot and drive straight back, to hand it over and cast my vote! It wouldn’t have occurred to me to vote twice by using it, but I’m sure happy to know that my state watches for the unscrupulous people who would do that.
"After using the mail in ballot, they automatically sent one to me for the next election, but I was able to go to the poll then, so when I signed in, they said…”our records show that a ballot was mailed to you and we cannot allow you to vote until you surrender that ballot”! Thank goodness I had just laid it aside, and I was happy to drive home, pick up the unused mail ballot and drive straight back, to hand it over and cast my vote! It wouldn’t have occurred to me to vote twice by using it, but I’m sure happy to know that my state watches for the unscrupulous people who would do that."
Your state doesn't do that; one single person did that. Imagine how many polling stations DON'T exercise that kind of diligence over mailed ballots.
NFW on mail-in ballots other than demonstrated-need absentee ballots, and NFW on early voting. IMO.
Jeff didn't posit that absentee voting would be scuttled, only that it would be greatly curtailed and only available if requested.
From the segment about Delaware: "It only allows for absentee ballots upon a valid request, where there is a good reason why someone is physically unable to vote in person."
That would cover you.
But early voting? NFW. How many people vote early, and die before Election Day? I don't know, but their votes shouldn't count. Otherwise, I want ballots for the next 20 years, because I know I'm going to vote GOP and I'd like to do it early.
Secondly, candidates run their campaigns with Election Day as the endpoint. An early vote is to one degree or another an uninformed or at least an ill-informed vote, because it cannot take into account anything that happens between the early vote and Election Day.
Just think how many people's early votes would've been different because of Hunter's laptop if there weren't early voting...and if the story weren't suppressed by the corrupt media.
I just went through Texas Poll Worker Training. This is, in fact, how mail-in ballots are supposed to be processed, with the exception of the automatic sending for next year. When a person requests a mail-in ballot, they are supposed to mark for which elections or "annual". If the request is for annual (only for 65/older or voters w/disabilties) the voter will automatically receive a mail-in ballot for all elections that voter is eligible to vote in for ONE YEAR (Jan-Dec) only. Did you request a mail-in ballot again or were these elections in the same calendar year (Jan-Dec)? There shouldn't be any automatic year to year mail-in ballots sent out in Texas.
When you go to the polls, your ID is scanned and the system tells you if a mail-in ballot was sent to that potential voter, and if it was received back. In your case, the poll worker handled your mail-in ballot correctly by making you surrender it before letting you vote in person. You also could've filled it out and turned it in at the polls.
Yes, the elections were in the same year. I'd never done a mail-in ballot before so I didn't know much about how they worked. And I was so glad to be able to walk again after my knee replacement that I was happy I could go to the poll and vote in the run-off election. I know there may be some level of fraud with mail-in ballots, but I still maintain that it should be available for disabled voters. And I think Texas does a pretty good job of preventing voter fraud.
Bravo to you for being a poll worker! I wish I could, but I'm not up to it, I'm actually having surgery this year ON election day.
Seriously!!! Who’s brainstorm was it to make voting day on a weekday.
Let's not use the scanning machines to create artificial reefs. Electronics contain lead, arsenic, and other things we don't want in our waters. Hardly environmentally-friendly.
I agree with getting rid of them though.