Why not make it a federal holiday? Aside from all essential workers, no business can open on election day until after 3pm. You are guaranteed that 95%+ of the voting population can make it to the polls then, which will eliminate the necessity for early voting and/or mail in voting aside from those essential workers and anybody stuck overseas. I think it's a bit conceited to think that people are using these other mechanisms because they are lazy or part of some fraudulent scheme. You point to 1996 as some grand achievement, meanwhile, only 51.7%* of the VEP (voting eligible population) turned out and only 51.7% of eligible voters made it. Let's make it easy for everybody to vote on one day and then we can eliminate most of the other mechanisms that have been used to increase voter turnout.
I have come to believe that voters who choose to self select out of elections are doing the right thing, civics-wise. Voting is a basic act of republican self government and those who can’t be persuaded to show up at the polls and spend a few minutes thinking about their responsibility to their country should not be participating in its governance. This was ground truth for most of our history. Very high percentages have been the product of coercion or corruption or both, and can result in bad government that can easily be worse than that produced by a legally restricted franchise. It’s the job of political parties to persuade the voters to turn out for them, to compete fiercely for turnout on the merits, and if they are failing to do so, the problem lies there. They are the ones who need incentives, not the voters.
I think we can shoot for a little higher than 50% of the VEP. Again, if the idea is to go back to a single election day, then make it easy for people to get there. This way, at the very least, you are not excluding people who just cannot make it for a variety of reasons on a typical work/school day.
Also, there are places (i.e. Australia) where voting is compulsory and you end up with 90% turnout. Fraud is absolutely negligible there in Australia. I'm not advocating for compulsory voting, although, I'm not exactly against the idea either.
I've heard some ideas about making it compulsory and giving everyone, say, $200 that they have to contribute to candidates of their choosing, whether it be local, state or federal elections and let that be the only campaign funds that can be raised. That would be around $50 billion in election campaign funds in total, which is plenty of money. Campaign funds raised for Congressional and Presidential races in 2024 totaled around $15 billion, so $50 billion seems like plenty of money to go around. Heck, with $50 billion each year, we could easily set aside a small portion of that to have a non-partisan commission that educates voters on the candidates in each race at every level. This is far less than 1% of the current federal budget and we can vastly increase voter participation.
Bottom line, believing that more active participation in our democracy is a bad thing seems pretty foolish.
I think the issue I have with the argument is that it conflates the right and left objections to electoral foul play. The right tends to point to assertions of fraud and the left points to voter suppression. Moving to Election Day-only voting could allay the concerns on the right — maybe — but will smack of further suppression on the left. Making voting less convenient is not a way to increase voter participation or inspire voter confidence. It would do the opposite.
A great side effect of Covid was to enable sensible practices like remote work and dag mamit …. mail in voting. No one needs to go back to Neanderthal voting methods unless you are in fact a Neanderthal 😂 And also Election Day should just not be on a work day or ideally be another holiday 😎
Drew, do you still watch nothing but Leave It To Beaver and Gunsmoke for entertainment? Does your family vacation only center on what Howard Johnson can do for you? Go to church every Sunday and live in an all white neighborhood where your neighbor’s grandparents graduated from the local high school?
Sorry to be so tedious about the point but we have friends and family broadly scattered now, not to mention work and other requirements, and everyone making the polls between 6am & 6pm on the 2nd Tuesday of whatever is impractical - AND unnecessary. The safeguards ARE there; that has been demonstrated time and time again. And elections are safer and fairer than 50 or 100 or 125 years ago. So quit being an idiot; don’t feed into the bullshit rhetoric that (mostly) the GOP wants to spread because they fear a government OF the people that was electing candidates FOR the people might wake up and realize a bit more consideration of ALL the people would yield better results.
I support single-day in-person voting for everyone without some kind of unavoidable hardship (military service, disability, etc.), not because of fears about (non-existent) fraud, but because I think we need to recover the practice of civic rituals performed together in person. In an age of dissolution and difference, we need regular occurrences to participate in civic affairs with our neighbors to remind ourselves that we maintain our republic only as long as we hang together. It would be great if Voting Day was treated as a nationwide holiday, and not a patchwork of people working and not working. Switching to a ranked choice system (instant runoff) would also boost the value of Voting Day as a singular event since there would be no need for low-turnout runoffs on a random Tuesday after the big election.
I simply disagree with this article. First, yes, it's is true that regardless of how much fraud or abuse can be proven, the mere appearance of foul play constitutes a problem that should be remedied. The remedy is for politicians to stop making false claims. Frankly, when people like Trump say they have a list of 40,000+ people in Georgia who illegally voted, they should be put in handcuffs until they turn over that list to law enforcement.
Second, we have primary elections in the Spring or Summer and a General Election in November. Taking a few days or a week to count votes is not a disaster. Same for the General Election in November when the winners take office in January.
And lastly, there is an old joke about the Irish Catholics (oft told by my German-American Catholic grandmother) that the Irish confuse being religious with being uncomfortable.
In a similar way, don't confuse making voting inconvenient to voters as being patriotic.
Fulton county admitted that they counted 315k unverified ballots. 315k is almost 8 times more than 40k, so who's lying? Fulton County admits to verifying 315,000 votes in 2020 without poll worker signatures https://share.google/g45NnCok1fBCtEebl
Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were certified without required poll-worker signatures on tabulator tapes, but the votes themselves were legally cast and verified.
During the 2020 presidential election, Fulton County officials acknowledged a clerical error: about 134 tabulator tapes, representing roughly 315,000 early-voting ballots, were certified without the required signatures from poll workers as mandated by Georgia election rules
These tabulator tapes are printed from ballot scanners to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the number of voters, and signatures are required to certify the accuracy of these records
Votes were valid: All voters were verified with photo ID, and the ballots were lawfully cast
Georgia uses paper ballots marked by ballot-marking devices, which are then scanned and stored in locked ballot boxes. The tabulator tapes are administrative records, not the ballots themselves
Recounts and audits: The 2020 election results in Fulton County were recounted multiple times, including hand counts, confirming the original vote totals
David, Thank for the information, which just reinforced my opinion that the country needs a unified national paid day off to vote, with every state following the same rules.
You're welcome, David. I learned that some states have paid time off to vote and some don't when I wrote an article for a Hispanic newspaper about the importance of voting. I said then that a National Election Day holiday would be ideal. Some countries, such as Australia, Belgium and Mexico, even have mandatory voting.
That sounds nice, but the issue isn't being too lazy to get out of bed to vote, it's taking unpaid time off from work to vote on a Tuesday. For those who are working multiple jobs just to pay the rent or put food on the table, taking unpaid time off can be a serious financial burden. How about making Sunday a national paid day off to allow everyone the opportunity to vote without having to choose between food, and voting?
I didn't see any mention of that in your opinion, but that doesn't surprise me. Does the author have to make that food or vote decision in order to cast his ballot? I suspect not. Even our illustrious president voted by mail! God forbid we the lazy masses should vote the same way as the president.
Some states actually do offer paid time off to vote. Others offer unpaid time off, while others don't offer time off to work. You need to check the requirements of your state. I surely agree with you that there should be National Elections Day on a Saturday or preferably Sunday, and maybe even be a National Elections Weekend.
Ballotpedia, "Time off work for voting"
"Some states require employers to allow voters time off from working to cast a ballot. As of September 2025, 28 states and the District of Columbia required employers to grant employees time off to vote.
Within these 28 states, policies varied as to whether that time off must be paid and how much notice must be given.
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia require the time off to be paid, while seven states require it to be unpaid. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia require workers to request the time off on or before Election Day, while ten states have no request requirement.
Some states restrict which types of voters can request time off. Twenty-one states require time off be available only to workers who do not have sufficient time outside of their shift to vote, while six states and the District of Columbia have no such restriction. Massachusetts limits the time off requirement to workers in certain industries."
There's a section right below these grafs called, "Time off work for voting by state"
I tried to copy the state-by-state graph, where you click on your state to find out the requirement, but it wouldn't copy. But if you go to the link above that I posted, you will find your state.
Sounds good but there is a slight problem with it. D's tend to vote by mail or drop off ballet ahead of time. R's don't. Some time ago (I forget the election) there was a snowstorm either on election day or the day before. The roads, in this case the Interstate was blocked and shut down. The people who voted ahead of time had their votes counted. The ones who could not get to the poles that day did not. If you live in a place where you can walk to a polling station or it's a short drive it isn't a problem. If the voting station is X miles away (think the midwest and west) it could be. Lyft did a survey and found that voting dropped by 20% when distances increased by even one mile. True/False? Don't know but I think it's something to be looked at before hand rather than afterwards. Everything looks good on paper.
The problem isn't the mechanism, it's the Democrat Party and their fraudulent and terrorist outriders. So far we have seen the fraud in a handful of counties in swing states. Mail ballots are the current technology but before that there was the Boss Tweed way. He was the origin of the statement usually attributed to Stalin about the vote counters. As for the terrorism, that is the next phase. It is not hard to identify localities that are heavily partisan. Shooting up or bombing the voting lines in those places can differently tilt the turnout. And we all know which ideology is fond of violence.
I'm chucklin Richard:). I sense a smidge of paranoia. I understand that Don tells y'all about all the fraud where brown people reside, but at some point, I'd think his lack of evidence might sink in?
Don is the only politician I can recall that perpetrated election fraud on TV. We all watched it, but only some of us are willing to tell the truth about it. His insurrection is the worst act ever committed by a US president. And yet, the "new" right/MAGA actually defends the first non-peaceful transfer of power in our nations history.
His drive to raise false alarms about our electoral system is intentional. And hugely destructive. It strikes at the heart of a free nation. Establishment elites like Oren and AC should do their part by speaking the truth, not platforming silly conjecture as a way to salve their guilty consciences.
Trump Denial Syndrome? Not me Jeff, I don't think the dudes with maga hats who are on tape beating cops with confederate flagpoles were just on vacation. Do you? Maybe you should bone up on the public statements of Don's first term cabinet and top level WH staff. Only a deranged person would think they are all lying, and the insurrection was fake:)
In case you haven't noticed, he isn't running in 2028. The implosion of the Oystergruppenfueher gives the Democrat party the opportunity to clean up their act. I doubt they will take it. It has been 150 years since Boss Tweed and they haven't done it yet.
Actually Richard, D’s ARE cleaning up their act, Platner is gone, as he should be. It’s my former party that continues to capitulate-Don’s sordid history with women is even worse, capped off by the Epstein lies and coverup. The hypocrisy isn’t exactly surprising-when MAGA and the “new” right swallowed the insurrection, I knew they’d swallow anything he fed em.
But, it’s fascinating you’re fixated on Boss Tweed, a crooked politician from the 1800’s, yet stay silent on the crooked pol currently in the WH. The silence sure seems deafening as the sitting U.S. prez pockets an incomprehensible amount of corrupt loot trading our national interest to foreign adversaries. Crypto corruption is now Don’s most lucrative career endeavor, far surpassing his former gravy trains of inheritance and game show hosting. And yet, the flock dutifully salutes, laying bare their obsequiousness and lack of seriousness. Sadly, the schadenfreude, while amusing, is hardly sufficient compensation for the damage he’s inflicting on our nation.
Meanwhile, enjoy the measles outbreaks and MAGA’s Middle East war, I’m sure he’s tellin ya the truth this time. And, PS, ole Boss was ultimately convicted and died in prison…
Unlike a lot of problems, this serious issue can mostly be resolved in two, non-expensive steps. First, as you say, make Election Day real again. Second, require the same ID to vote as to fly. On the second point, I recently came around at St. Louis Airport when I realized that 1) a true cross section of society was in the security line and 2) everyone had appropriate identification. At this point, the lack of a cursory ID check (much less TSA-level face scan) raises suspicions for many. And, a couple of decades after 9/11, ID is so prevalent it amounts to soft bigotry to say it’s too difficult for certain groups to obtain.
I live in Oakland California, and really like our mail in voting system.
Prior to receiving the ballot in the mail, I receive an email notification letting me know it is about to be mailed to me, and including the day it should arrive by. It also included information on who to contact if it didn't arrive on time.
After filling in the ballot, we had the choice to either mail it, or put it in a drop box. They also offered a third option: drive downtown to a site that collects the ballots while sitting in my car, which is the option we selected. While there, they checked to make sure my address & signature were correctly entered on the envelope, thus reducing the need to “cure” ballots later. They also handed us “I voted” stickers.
The next day we received emails stating that they were in possession of our ballots, thanking us for voting, and letting us know that they will be counted. On election day we received emails letting us know that our ballot had been counted. All very easy and foolproof.
Having said all that, I kinda miss the good feeling of stepping into a voting booth to cast my ballot, but I'm for anything that increases voter participation.
Fully 1/3 of Americans are dead wrong. We don’t care what they think is true. As for the appearance of fraud in elections, merely claiming it’s there doesn’t count as appearance; it makes those making the claim bald-faced liars. You’ve added yourself to that list.
Why not make it a federal holiday? Aside from all essential workers, no business can open on election day until after 3pm. You are guaranteed that 95%+ of the voting population can make it to the polls then, which will eliminate the necessity for early voting and/or mail in voting aside from those essential workers and anybody stuck overseas. I think it's a bit conceited to think that people are using these other mechanisms because they are lazy or part of some fraudulent scheme. You point to 1996 as some grand achievement, meanwhile, only 51.7%* of the VEP (voting eligible population) turned out and only 51.7% of eligible voters made it. Let's make it easy for everybody to vote on one day and then we can eliminate most of the other mechanisms that have been used to increase voter turnout.
*https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections
I have come to believe that voters who choose to self select out of elections are doing the right thing, civics-wise. Voting is a basic act of republican self government and those who can’t be persuaded to show up at the polls and spend a few minutes thinking about their responsibility to their country should not be participating in its governance. This was ground truth for most of our history. Very high percentages have been the product of coercion or corruption or both, and can result in bad government that can easily be worse than that produced by a legally restricted franchise. It’s the job of political parties to persuade the voters to turn out for them, to compete fiercely for turnout on the merits, and if they are failing to do so, the problem lies there. They are the ones who need incentives, not the voters.
I think we can shoot for a little higher than 50% of the VEP. Again, if the idea is to go back to a single election day, then make it easy for people to get there. This way, at the very least, you are not excluding people who just cannot make it for a variety of reasons on a typical work/school day.
Also, there are places (i.e. Australia) where voting is compulsory and you end up with 90% turnout. Fraud is absolutely negligible there in Australia. I'm not advocating for compulsory voting, although, I'm not exactly against the idea either.
I've heard some ideas about making it compulsory and giving everyone, say, $200 that they have to contribute to candidates of their choosing, whether it be local, state or federal elections and let that be the only campaign funds that can be raised. That would be around $50 billion in election campaign funds in total, which is plenty of money. Campaign funds raised for Congressional and Presidential races in 2024 totaled around $15 billion, so $50 billion seems like plenty of money to go around. Heck, with $50 billion each year, we could easily set aside a small portion of that to have a non-partisan commission that educates voters on the candidates in each race at every level. This is far less than 1% of the current federal budget and we can vastly increase voter participation.
Bottom line, believing that more active participation in our democracy is a bad thing seems pretty foolish.
Exactly 👍
This.
I think the issue I have with the argument is that it conflates the right and left objections to electoral foul play. The right tends to point to assertions of fraud and the left points to voter suppression. Moving to Election Day-only voting could allay the concerns on the right — maybe — but will smack of further suppression on the left. Making voting less convenient is not a way to increase voter participation or inspire voter confidence. It would do the opposite.
Unless we make it a Federal holiday.
A great side effect of Covid was to enable sensible practices like remote work and dag mamit …. mail in voting. No one needs to go back to Neanderthal voting methods unless you are in fact a Neanderthal 😂 And also Election Day should just not be on a work day or ideally be another holiday 😎
Drew, do you still watch nothing but Leave It To Beaver and Gunsmoke for entertainment? Does your family vacation only center on what Howard Johnson can do for you? Go to church every Sunday and live in an all white neighborhood where your neighbor’s grandparents graduated from the local high school?
Sorry to be so tedious about the point but we have friends and family broadly scattered now, not to mention work and other requirements, and everyone making the polls between 6am & 6pm on the 2nd Tuesday of whatever is impractical - AND unnecessary. The safeguards ARE there; that has been demonstrated time and time again. And elections are safer and fairer than 50 or 100 or 125 years ago. So quit being an idiot; don’t feed into the bullshit rhetoric that (mostly) the GOP wants to spread because they fear a government OF the people that was electing candidates FOR the people might wake up and realize a bit more consideration of ALL the people would yield better results.
Sorry for being long-winders
You should also stop being so rude and insulting. Answers like yours make people shake their head, and not give your ideas much thought or credence.
I support single-day in-person voting for everyone without some kind of unavoidable hardship (military service, disability, etc.), not because of fears about (non-existent) fraud, but because I think we need to recover the practice of civic rituals performed together in person. In an age of dissolution and difference, we need regular occurrences to participate in civic affairs with our neighbors to remind ourselves that we maintain our republic only as long as we hang together. It would be great if Voting Day was treated as a nationwide holiday, and not a patchwork of people working and not working. Switching to a ranked choice system (instant runoff) would also boost the value of Voting Day as a singular event since there would be no need for low-turnout runoffs on a random Tuesday after the big election.
I simply disagree with this article. First, yes, it's is true that regardless of how much fraud or abuse can be proven, the mere appearance of foul play constitutes a problem that should be remedied. The remedy is for politicians to stop making false claims. Frankly, when people like Trump say they have a list of 40,000+ people in Georgia who illegally voted, they should be put in handcuffs until they turn over that list to law enforcement.
Second, we have primary elections in the Spring or Summer and a General Election in November. Taking a few days or a week to count votes is not a disaster. Same for the General Election in November when the winners take office in January.
And lastly, there is an old joke about the Irish Catholics (oft told by my German-American Catholic grandmother) that the Irish confuse being religious with being uncomfortable.
In a similar way, don't confuse making voting inconvenient to voters as being patriotic.
Fulton county admitted that they counted 315k unverified ballots. 315k is almost 8 times more than 40k, so who's lying? Fulton County admits to verifying 315,000 votes in 2020 without poll worker signatures https://share.google/g45NnCok1fBCtEebl
Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were certified without required poll-worker signatures on tabulator tapes, but the votes themselves were legally cast and verified.
During the 2020 presidential election, Fulton County officials acknowledged a clerical error: about 134 tabulator tapes, representing roughly 315,000 early-voting ballots, were certified without the required signatures from poll workers as mandated by Georgia election rules
These tabulator tapes are printed from ballot scanners to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the number of voters, and signatures are required to certify the accuracy of these records
Votes were valid: All voters were verified with photo ID, and the ballots were lawfully cast
Georgia uses paper ballots marked by ballot-marking devices, which are then scanned and stored in locked ballot boxes. The tabulator tapes are administrative records, not the ballots themselves
Recounts and audits: The 2020 election results in Fulton County were recounted multiple times, including hand counts, confirming the original vote totals
David, Thank for the information, which just reinforced my opinion that the country needs a unified national paid day off to vote, with every state following the same rules.
You're welcome, David. I learned that some states have paid time off to vote and some don't when I wrote an article for a Hispanic newspaper about the importance of voting. I said then that a National Election Day holiday would be ideal. Some countries, such as Australia, Belgium and Mexico, even have mandatory voting.
Thanks, David. I will do better in the future.
That sounds nice, but the issue isn't being too lazy to get out of bed to vote, it's taking unpaid time off from work to vote on a Tuesday. For those who are working multiple jobs just to pay the rent or put food on the table, taking unpaid time off can be a serious financial burden. How about making Sunday a national paid day off to allow everyone the opportunity to vote without having to choose between food, and voting?
I didn't see any mention of that in your opinion, but that doesn't surprise me. Does the author have to make that food or vote decision in order to cast his ballot? I suspect not. Even our illustrious president voted by mail! God forbid we the lazy masses should vote the same way as the president.
Some states actually do offer paid time off to vote. Others offer unpaid time off, while others don't offer time off to work. You need to check the requirements of your state. I surely agree with you that there should be National Elections Day on a Saturday or preferably Sunday, and maybe even be a National Elections Weekend.
Ballotpedia, "Time off work for voting"
"Some states require employers to allow voters time off from working to cast a ballot. As of September 2025, 28 states and the District of Columbia required employers to grant employees time off to vote.
Within these 28 states, policies varied as to whether that time off must be paid and how much notice must be given.
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia require the time off to be paid, while seven states require it to be unpaid. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia require workers to request the time off on or before Election Day, while ten states have no request requirement.
Some states restrict which types of voters can request time off. Twenty-one states require time off be available only to workers who do not have sufficient time outside of their shift to vote, while six states and the District of Columbia have no such restriction. Massachusetts limits the time off requirement to workers in certain industries."
https://ballotpedia.org/Time_off_work_for_voting
There's a section right below these grafs called, "Time off work for voting by state"
I tried to copy the state-by-state graph, where you click on your state to find out the requirement, but it wouldn't copy. But if you go to the link above that I posted, you will find your state.
Sounds good but there is a slight problem with it. D's tend to vote by mail or drop off ballet ahead of time. R's don't. Some time ago (I forget the election) there was a snowstorm either on election day or the day before. The roads, in this case the Interstate was blocked and shut down. The people who voted ahead of time had their votes counted. The ones who could not get to the poles that day did not. If you live in a place where you can walk to a polling station or it's a short drive it isn't a problem. If the voting station is X miles away (think the midwest and west) it could be. Lyft did a survey and found that voting dropped by 20% when distances increased by even one mile. True/False? Don't know but I think it's something to be looked at before hand rather than afterwards. Everything looks good on paper.
The problem isn't the mechanism, it's the Democrat Party and their fraudulent and terrorist outriders. So far we have seen the fraud in a handful of counties in swing states. Mail ballots are the current technology but before that there was the Boss Tweed way. He was the origin of the statement usually attributed to Stalin about the vote counters. As for the terrorism, that is the next phase. It is not hard to identify localities that are heavily partisan. Shooting up or bombing the voting lines in those places can differently tilt the turnout. And we all know which ideology is fond of violence.
I'm chucklin Richard:). I sense a smidge of paranoia. I understand that Don tells y'all about all the fraud where brown people reside, but at some point, I'd think his lack of evidence might sink in?
Don is the only politician I can recall that perpetrated election fraud on TV. We all watched it, but only some of us are willing to tell the truth about it. His insurrection is the worst act ever committed by a US president. And yet, the "new" right/MAGA actually defends the first non-peaceful transfer of power in our nations history.
His drive to raise false alarms about our electoral system is intentional. And hugely destructive. It strikes at the heart of a free nation. Establishment elites like Oren and AC should do their part by speaking the truth, not platforming silly conjecture as a way to salve their guilty consciences.
Karl Karl Karl you need to have your TDS checked out, I worry about your health.
Trump Denial Syndrome? Not me Jeff, I don't think the dudes with maga hats who are on tape beating cops with confederate flagpoles were just on vacation. Do you? Maybe you should bone up on the public statements of Don's first term cabinet and top level WH staff. Only a deranged person would think they are all lying, and the insurrection was fake:)
It's pretty simple: If the Donald wins is fair, honest election. If he loses, it's rigged.
In case you haven't noticed, he isn't running in 2028. The implosion of the Oystergruppenfueher gives the Democrat party the opportunity to clean up their act. I doubt they will take it. It has been 150 years since Boss Tweed and they haven't done it yet.
Actually Richard, D’s ARE cleaning up their act, Platner is gone, as he should be. It’s my former party that continues to capitulate-Don’s sordid history with women is even worse, capped off by the Epstein lies and coverup. The hypocrisy isn’t exactly surprising-when MAGA and the “new” right swallowed the insurrection, I knew they’d swallow anything he fed em.
But, it’s fascinating you’re fixated on Boss Tweed, a crooked politician from the 1800’s, yet stay silent on the crooked pol currently in the WH. The silence sure seems deafening as the sitting U.S. prez pockets an incomprehensible amount of corrupt loot trading our national interest to foreign adversaries. Crypto corruption is now Don’s most lucrative career endeavor, far surpassing his former gravy trains of inheritance and game show hosting. And yet, the flock dutifully salutes, laying bare their obsequiousness and lack of seriousness. Sadly, the schadenfreude, while amusing, is hardly sufficient compensation for the damage he’s inflicting on our nation.
Meanwhile, enjoy the measles outbreaks and MAGA’s Middle East war, I’m sure he’s tellin ya the truth this time. And, PS, ole Boss was ultimately convicted and died in prison…
Unlike a lot of problems, this serious issue can mostly be resolved in two, non-expensive steps. First, as you say, make Election Day real again. Second, require the same ID to vote as to fly. On the second point, I recently came around at St. Louis Airport when I realized that 1) a true cross section of society was in the security line and 2) everyone had appropriate identification. At this point, the lack of a cursory ID check (much less TSA-level face scan) raises suspicions for many. And, a couple of decades after 9/11, ID is so prevalent it amounts to soft bigotry to say it’s too difficult for certain groups to obtain.
100% agree. People need to believe the result is true to accept it.
Prposed sollution tht does not address any ot the ress for the problem. :(
What?
I live in Oakland California, and really like our mail in voting system.
Prior to receiving the ballot in the mail, I receive an email notification letting me know it is about to be mailed to me, and including the day it should arrive by. It also included information on who to contact if it didn't arrive on time.
After filling in the ballot, we had the choice to either mail it, or put it in a drop box. They also offered a third option: drive downtown to a site that collects the ballots while sitting in my car, which is the option we selected. While there, they checked to make sure my address & signature were correctly entered on the envelope, thus reducing the need to “cure” ballots later. They also handed us “I voted” stickers.
The next day we received emails stating that they were in possession of our ballots, thanking us for voting, and letting us know that they will be counted. On election day we received emails letting us know that our ballot had been counted. All very easy and foolproof.
Having said all that, I kinda miss the good feeling of stepping into a voting booth to cast my ballot, but I'm for anything that increases voter participation.
Fully 1/3 of Americans are dead wrong. We don’t care what they think is true. As for the appearance of fraud in elections, merely claiming it’s there doesn’t count as appearance; it makes those making the claim bald-faced liars. You’ve added yourself to that list.