At least in the Upper Left Washington, a vote-by-mail state, the ballots had to be in the mail evening of election day, so you could wait to the last minute to vote. (And that made “finding” Dem votes in recounts much easier. Just ask Dino Rossi.)
Here in Colorado, another vote-by-mail state, the ballot must be received by the evening deadline on election day. It looks like about 12% of the Dems ended up voting for Buttilgbt and just as many for the other no-show candidates who dropped out over the weekend. About a quarter of the Dem votes were wasted, by design.
Me, I finally voted for the Orange Clown, to send a message. (Four years of “#resistance” and the best you can come up with is Joe Biden?) Not taking a chance with voting for the “greater evil” on the Dem side. 2016 showed how “Operation Chaos” was a stupid idea with too many “unintended consequences”.
(Vote-by-mail and “jungle primary” are two ideas whose time has passed, and should be considered no different from Chicago’s “vote early, vote often”.)
Or from his 1936 book– “Cast a vote for W.C.Fields, and watch for the silver lining. Cast several votes for Fields and watch for the police.”
You got some kind of problem with pulling boxes of ballots out of someone’s trunk in the 3rd recount?
There’s no reason not to have voter ID other than to make it far easier to implement vote fraud. This country is carrying it’s democracy around in a paper bag. Sooner or later there’s going to be some very very nasty business associated with the voting process.
That, and Democrats believe black people are too stupid to successfully apply for an ID.
You may be right, but there is still a reason. If you require a government ID to vote, then in the end, the government can stop individuals from voting for whatever reason they can contrive.
I voted in the Virginia primary yesterday, and had to produce a government-issued ID. The primary was Democrat only. It comes on the heels of the new Virginia Democrat majority passing a law effectively doing away with voter ID.
I don’t care. I’m a Republican. I voted for Sanders. Tee-hee!
Seriously? How? On what grounds? Be specific.
Um no. Several constitutional amendments already say the government can’t just do that. Also, the Voting rights act clarifies it further. This doesn’t go away just because the government requires ID to vote. And, if we take your logic the other way, if the government can’t require IDs, then it can’t have any restrictions on who can vote. So if we don’t allow IDs, then we also must allow 12 year olds who just entered the country to vote by your logic.
That would be sooner. CA has had a “Motor Voter” law allowing voter registration at the same time as driver’s license application/renewal for a number of years now. CA also issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The Democratic Sec’y. of State makes no effort to filter non-citizen voter registrations out of the mix. Given the number of illegals in CA it’s entirely possible Hillary’s 2016 “popular vote win” was owed entirely to illegals voting in CA.
Which is why, without a national standard for determining who gets to vote, a “national popular vote” is a really stupid idea unless your goal is to cheat.
I’ve gotten to the point where if Californicans really believe that “fifth-largest economy in the world” shit, let ’em go. Just that they don’t get to take Jefferson and Mojave and the Port of San Diego and Yosemite NP and the Owens Valley and Lake Tahoe with ’em. (And make sure that the “illegals” their economy seems to require to function get free shuttle bus service out of Mexico and into the People’s Republic.)
I think that economy rank number is now 6 or 7. I can remember when it used to be 4.
As a long-time resident, I don’t want to see CA leave the union, I want to see President Trump declare CA to be in a state of insurrection, declare martial law, send in the 101st Airborne and arrest the entire slate of statewide officeholders for treason.
After that, a 25 or so year period of Reconstruction would be in order to erase the damage done by the Democrats during the interval between Jerry Brown’s first gubernatorial term and the present.
Early voting among late voters is a tried an true practice in the state I grew up in.
Illinois, eh?
Here in ‘Sconsin, the poll workers check my ID and then hand me a ballot and a sticker “I Voted.”
Every November I want to ask, “I stood in the line to check my name and address, they gave me a slip to stand in another line to get my ballot, I stood in another line to fill out my ballot on one of the voting tables with the marking pens and the “privacy” screens, I stood in yet another line to feed my ballot into the tabulator. Where does the line form that I can get my frozen turkey?
How did you know? 🙂
The Necro-American vote in Cook County is justly famous.
At least in the Upper Left Washington, a vote-by-mail state, the ballots had to be in the mail evening of election day, so you could wait to the last minute to vote. (And that made “finding” Dem votes in recounts much easier. Just ask Dino Rossi.)
Here in Colorado, another vote-by-mail state, the ballot must be received by the evening deadline on election day. It looks like about 12% of the Dems ended up voting for Buttilgbt and just as many for the other no-show candidates who dropped out over the weekend. About a quarter of the Dem votes were wasted, by design.
Me, I finally voted for the Orange Clown, to send a message. (Four years of “#resistance” and the best you can come up with is Joe Biden?) Not taking a chance with voting for the “greater evil” on the Dem side. 2016 showed how “Operation Chaos” was a stupid idea with too many “unintended consequences”.
(Vote-by-mail and “jungle primary” are two ideas whose time has passed, and should be considered no different from Chicago’s “vote early, vote often”.)
Or from his 1936 book– “Cast a vote for W.C.Fields, and watch for the silver lining. Cast several votes for Fields and watch for the police.”
You got some kind of problem with pulling boxes of ballots out of someone’s trunk in the 3rd recount?
There’s no reason not to have voter ID other than to make it far easier to implement vote fraud. This country is carrying it’s democracy around in a paper bag. Sooner or later there’s going to be some very very nasty business associated with the voting process.
That, and Democrats believe black people are too stupid to successfully apply for an ID.
You may be right, but there is still a reason. If you require a government ID to vote, then in the end, the government can stop individuals from voting for whatever reason they can contrive.
I voted in the Virginia primary yesterday, and had to produce a government-issued ID. The primary was Democrat only. It comes on the heels of the new Virginia Democrat majority passing a law effectively doing away with voter ID.
I don’t care. I’m a Republican. I voted for Sanders. Tee-hee!
Seriously? How? On what grounds? Be specific.
Um no. Several constitutional amendments already say the government can’t just do that. Also, the Voting rights act clarifies it further. This doesn’t go away just because the government requires ID to vote. And, if we take your logic the other way, if the government can’t require IDs, then it can’t have any restrictions on who can vote. So if we don’t allow IDs, then we also must allow 12 year olds who just entered the country to vote by your logic.
That would be sooner. CA has had a “Motor Voter” law allowing voter registration at the same time as driver’s license application/renewal for a number of years now. CA also issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The Democratic Sec’y. of State makes no effort to filter non-citizen voter registrations out of the mix. Given the number of illegals in CA it’s entirely possible Hillary’s 2016 “popular vote win” was owed entirely to illegals voting in CA.
Which is why, without a national standard for determining who gets to vote, a “national popular vote” is a really stupid idea unless your goal is to cheat.
I’ve gotten to the point where if Californicans really believe that “fifth-largest economy in the world” shit, let ’em go. Just that they don’t get to take Jefferson and Mojave and the Port of San Diego and Yosemite NP and the Owens Valley and Lake Tahoe with ’em. (And make sure that the “illegals” their economy seems to require to function get free shuttle bus service out of Mexico and into the People’s Republic.)
I think that economy rank number is now 6 or 7. I can remember when it used to be 4.
As a long-time resident, I don’t want to see CA leave the union, I want to see President Trump declare CA to be in a state of insurrection, declare martial law, send in the 101st Airborne and arrest the entire slate of statewide officeholders for treason.
After that, a 25 or so year period of Reconstruction would be in order to erase the damage done by the Democrats during the interval between Jerry Brown’s first gubernatorial term and the present.
Early voting among late voters is a tried an true practice in the state I grew up in.
Illinois, eh?
Here in ‘Sconsin, the poll workers check my ID and then hand me a ballot and a sticker “I Voted.”
Every November I want to ask, “I stood in the line to check my name and address, they gave me a slip to stand in another line to get my ballot, I stood in another line to fill out my ballot on one of the voting tables with the marking pens and the “privacy” screens, I stood in yet another line to feed my ballot into the tabulator. Where does the line form that I can get my frozen turkey?
How did you know? 🙂
The Necro-American vote in Cook County is justly famous.