We voted on Sunday. My wife has problems with standing for long periods, so she did curbside voting. They brought the voting machine to the car, detached the touch screen and handed it to her through the window and she voted. Fantastic.
In the old days, we would be at our polling place at the 6 AM opening on election day. Usually a 30 minute or so process to vote, but then we could make it to work on time.
The majority party in our state legislature and governor's office changed in 2012, just in tine for redistricting based on the 2010 census. Lawsuits galore over gerrymandering, early voting changes, and all sorts of peripheral laws and rulings. Tiresome, bothersome and worrisome.
OMG! Potential for rigging the results??? No way that could happen. That's why gerrymandering was invented.
[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER] : LOL! My point exactly to the head editorial writer of our local paper. You have to fight your way out of the gerrymandering and regain the majority. Then you can institute your own version.
Google NC 12th Congressional District for some of the history.
Darn I should have written in Gerry Mander for President.
Mark Mayer, post: 397914, member: 424 wrote: Vote by mail in Oregon. My ballot arrived last week. Fill it out and drop it off.
The problem is it makes it to easy for the uninformed voter to vote! My 2 cents, Jp
How do they know you were the person who filled it out?
Say I were a trillionaire and wished to rig an election. Some people's ballots might get bought for a fairly small sum.
Holy Cow, post: 398122, member: 50 wrote: How do they know you were the person who filled it out?
That's good question.
Another question would be...How do you know if the vote was counted or even opened?
I remember hearing about recounts where absentee and/or mail ballots were found after the election results.
I think that happened in FL in 2000 among other places.
But no system is perfect.
Probably very few stolen mail-in ballots, but I suspect there are a few people voting an elderly parent's ballot for them.
How many times would alleged ballot buying have to be reported on the news before mail-in balloting was stopped?
It's an invitation to stuff the ballot box.
gschrock, post: 398142, member: 556 wrote: Each would have to have a valid mailing address....Too many names at one address is a flag
What if was the open door mission or soup kitchen?
One time I mistakenly went to a Republican meeting and that's what they were saying the Democrats were doing...
I didn't tell them I was Canadian...:bacon:
I did find out one thing about voting here: A few years ago my brother came out of the swamp (DC) in early Oct and spent a few days visiting our mother and doing some work around the state. I then took our mother with me when I went to early vote, imagine our surprise when they said to mom; "you can't vote, you already did".
Told me a couple of things:
You really can't vote twice here.....well at least not with the same name.....
And it was probably time that mom stopped voting anyway, she had no idea my brother already took her.
Sorry to have to report this but voting fraud has been going on in nursing homes for years. Helpful people helping the feeble with absentee ballots. The clincher was finding people had clearly voted the exact opposite of their long held convictions. They were also a great place to get signatures on a petition. Again, signing something in direct conflict with their long held convictions. In one local case, family members discovered this and raised the roof and removed their loved ones from that facility. In a very small voting precinct where absolutely no one voted a certain way it became exceedingly obvious.
Another nearby facility for mentally impaired adults would send them into the nearby voting place with slips of paper showing them exactly how to mark their ballots. Poll workers found dozens of these on the floor after the bus load left.
Mail-in ballots would have been so much handier.
Holy Cow, post: 398157, member: 50 wrote: Sorry to have to report this but voting fraud has been going on in nursing homes for years. Helpful people helping the feeble with absentee ballots. The clincher was finding people had clearly voted the exact opposite of their long held convictions. They were also a great place to get signatures on a petition. Again, signing something in direct conflict with their long held convictions. In one local case, family members discovered this and raised the roof and removed their loved ones from that facility. In a very small voting precinct where absolutely no one voted a certain way it became exceedingly obvious.
Another nearby facility for mentally impaired adults would send them into the nearby voting place with slips of paper showing them exactly how to mark their ballots. Poll workers found dozens of these on the floor after the bus load left.
Mail-in ballots would have been so much handier.
With the greying of the population and people living longer through modern drugs for a multitude of illnesses, it seems that a process is needed to provide for their constitutional
rights. Voter suppression is more prevalent than voter fraud.
Are you saying people with various disabilities should be prevented from casting a ballot? I hope not.
Not at all. There simply needs to be a system to allow them to do it without any chance of someone else doing it for them.
Mr. Hill maybe on to something, there must have been a large voter suppression of rational people during this past primary season.
Already voted. California allows you to become a permanent "absentee"/vote-by-mail voter, so I've done that for a few years. This is my "domestic partner's" first time to vote in a presidential election so he's pretty jazzed about it. I usually try to avoid all the campaigning but I've been getting daily updates from him (ergh). He even got to see a campaign speech two days ago--I won't tell you who gave it as that would be a big pointer to who we're voting for!
gschrock, post: 398245, member: 556 wrote: I say we celebrate and honor our right to vote.
I've been voting the penny ballot machines. I'll try one for awhile, then maybe move to another one. Hit the jackpot the other day! Machine said I won 49 million votes! Of course the voting staff came over and said it was a glitch in the machine and only gave me a steak dinner. 🙁