lpnmajor wrote:
There will be no changes to how we vote. There has been absentee voting - by mail - forever, so what difference will it make if a few more people mail in their ballots? What you are really complaining about....................is the effort to get more people to vote.
If I had MY way, it would be mandatory for every eligible voter to vote every time, no opt outs.
SADLY, YOU ARE WRONG! There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between absentee voting which has been around a long time & is NOT BEING DEBATED & this NEW Democratic push for "Mail-in-Voting", which has little or nothing to do with the wuflu virus!
With absentee voting you are REQUIRED to REQUEST an Absentee ballot & (hopefully) your voter registration is checked at that time, if you ARE NOT a registered voter, they WILL NOT send you an Absentee Ballot. This has been a fairly safe method of voting for invalids, foreign residents & our military stationed abroad. NO ONE is proposing to change this.
With the new push for "Mail-in-Voting", in the states that have or WILL APPROVE it, a ballot is SENT to everyone who can be determined to be of voter age, usually by driver's license rolls. NOT ONLY JUST to REGISTERED VOTERS, but to EVERYONE, there is NO WAY to determine if this person is a Registered Voter or not, in some states, no way to determine if this person is EVEN a LEGAL US CITIZEN!
Even if sent only to REGISTERED VOTERS, many states have NOT updated their voter rolls for many years for
deaths, address changes, etc. With absentee ballots BY REQUEST, you eliminate this problem. It is NOT as you state "the problem of a few more people mailing in their ballots", it is a potential problem of THOUSANDS of ineligible votes!
I don't agree that it should be MANDATORY to vote, but it would probably be a good thing if more of our citizenry DID VOTE! But that is the beauty of our present FREEDOMS, we ALSO have the freedom to NOT do something if we so desire!
I fully realize that the Left will not or does not agree with these arguments, they probably even KNOW it is true, but their EXTREME push for more Mail-in-Voting reveals that they at least THINK it will be TO THEiR ADVANTAGE, otherwise you would NOT hear a peep about this issue!
If you can stand in line at Walmart, Home Depot & your local grocery store, you can do your PATRIOTIC DUTY & stand in line at a polling place! Otherwise, you can REQUEST an ABSENTEE BALLOT!