Election Day Thread - Nov. 3, 2020

[mooby]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

An article about voter suppression that mentions requiring an ID, loses me. IDs are required for so many things, but somehow for something as important as voting, its suppression.

I'd have to read more about voter purging. Is that taking people off the voter poll if they haven't voted X number of years? If so, I have no issues with that either.

Mail-in voting. I'm hesitant to make it widespread. For the sole reason it's easy to literally walk up to someone's mailbox and steal their mail. I guess I'm not against it wholeheartedly, but I think the process needs a lot of work to make me really confident in it.

Gerrymandering is dogshit. Any conservative that supports that is flat wrong.

Note - We need to expand the voting dates. Make it a Friday - Sunday thing. And make Friday a National Holiday. Nothing more patriotic than voting, no matter what way.

Aiight let me go 1 by 1:

I don't disagree with requiring an ID, and I wonder why they feel the need to include it as an example when the GOP gives me so many obvious blatant examples of voter suppression to pick one. Like in Texas - 1 ballot box per county is an obvious attempt at suppression. In Pennsylvania, suing to keep ballots postmarked before election day from being counted after election day is voter suppression.

The voter purging - I wouldn't have a problem with it either if they were only purging voters who hadn't voted within a reasonable timeframe, but I haven't seen anything that indicates that's the case. I have seen enough articles pointing out purges targeting Dems though.

Mail-in voting: I have yet to see anybody from the fed other than our dear sweet innocent President claim mail-in voting (that he has also used for years before becoming President) is subject to widespread fraud. And the idea that you can walk up to someone's mailbox and steal their mail doesn't scare me, because if you've ever read anything on the USPS postal inspector police you'd know they are regarded as one of the top law enforcement agencies in the nation, because mail fraud is a federal crime. And the idea that widespread ballot fraud could happen (with no supporting evidence) seems ludicrous. 9 ballots in PA go missing and it immediately became a national story, with the FBI and USPS police investigating. Imagine what would happen if 5k mailed in ballots went missing.

Glad we can both agree on gerrymandering, it is absolutely dogshit and I wish we had a nonpartisan federal commission that would oversee it since the SCOTUS punted on the issue.

Also totally agree on voting - if this country is as free as we all think it is, the idea that we have to wait hours in line on a Tuesday to vote is stupid. Expand the avenues and early voting, use national registries like the USPS address changing system to avoid unnecessary purging, we should be doing everything we can to get more people to vote, not less.