Comments on: Trust in the integrity of the voting process

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 03:14:43 +0000

in more than 30 years at Boeing, the only paid holidays I had were Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after and the last weekday before Christmas through the first weekday after January 1. This year 12/24 until 1/2. In 2028, it will be 12/22 until 1/2.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:07:29 +0000

NancyB, thanks for the correction about Junteenth.
Maybe when that was first announced, I thought it was fake news? 🙂

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:39:21 +0000

@Rick67:Do they not want the American electorate to have confidence in the integrity of the voting process?

I’d say they care about as much about that as Kim Jong Un. They prefer to win elections, and then use the power they have to intimidate Americans away from expressing lack of confidence in the integrity of the voting process; they’ll confidently proclaim we have the securest elections ever, citizens, and punish the lawyers who might take your case trying to demonstrate otherwise.

They don’t believe that what the electorate might want is valid if it conflicts with what they want to do with us. This is what they mean when they say “Our democracy”.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:22:52 +0000

It’s not just the Democratic Party. The frauds over at the League of Women Voters and Common Cause are on board with eliminating ballot security. If there are two organizations which deserve to wither away, it’s those.

By: Rick67

Rick67 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:00:18 +0000

What I struggle to understand (no not really) is why Democrats resist and oppose every single proposal to make sure everyone (who is legally eligible to vote) has a reasonable chance to do so *and* each vote they cast is counted correctly and only once.

Democrats consistently favor “everyone has a chance to vote” but not the “legally eligible” and “counted correctly and only once” parts. Do they not want the American electorate to have confidence in the integrity of the voting process?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:36:47 +0000

National holidays should be limited to Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and the Fourth of July, with a convenience day or two on either side of the first two. They would properly apply to federal employees and to private enterprises which employ people outside the jurisdiction where their parent company received its charter. There would properly be many exceptions to the applicability of these holidays. As for people employed by intra-state outfits, that’s at the discretion of the state and territorial legislatures.
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You do not need another holiday to vote. Saturday is a regular workday for just 12% of the adult population and will serve just fine. Have the polls open from 6 pm to 10 pm on Friday evening, 7 am to 6 pm on Saturday. Require people seeking postal ballots to set up a standing order for them by filling out an application to be vetted by the county board of elections. For some people, the standing order would be automatic given the data on their voter registration form, for others, a separate application would be needed. Those eligible might be (1) civilian employees of the U.S. government posted abroad and their spouses in-country with them; (2) servicemen and spouses resident with them; (3) persons under 25 enrolled at a residential campus; (4) miscellaneous persons who are eligible, live in institutional group quarters, and have received the consent of relations in state to register as a guest on their property; (5) persons who have filed an attestation from their doctor declaring them ‘homebound’; (6) persons who have filed an attestation from their work supervisor that they are out of the county overnight for > 50 work days per year. It is proper to debar by law the use of institutional group quarters, hotels &c, and postal boxes as voting addresses. It is proper to require by law that all postal ballots are in the mail to recipients by 15 September, that signature checks be undertaken six days a week by the board of elections as postal ballots arrive, that checked ballots are not counted but locked in cabinets with two locks – one for the Republican commissioner and one for the Democratic commissioner, that no ballots will be accepted for tabulation past the morning of the day polls open, that ballots arriving two late to be tabulated or which fail the signature check will be returned to sender (bar the few turned over to the sheriff for further inquiry). The results of referenda and first-past-the-post contests should invariably be available within hours of the polls closing. The first round of tabulation on ranked-choice contests should be as well. The results of multi-county contests should be available a tad later because county totals would have to be forward to the state board of elections for collation.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:17:15 +0000

But whatever a “solution” would be, it should look different from what’s in place in the US.
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There were vastly fewer problems 40 years ago than there are today. The problems we have were manufactured by malevolent characters accepted by otiose clowns. There’s no mystery about how to clean the system up.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:02:49 +0000

This is why cloward and piven moved for motor voters back in the 90s

Certainly mlk has supplanted the traditional presidential holidays same with june teenth

By: NancyB

NancyB — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:19:48 +0000

R2L: Minor quibble: Juneteenth is an official Federal holiday, established promptly on the wave of BLM by the current regime — passed 415-14 in the House, unanimously in the Senate. I despise it, as it’s clearly meant as a parallel to, and a subversion of, the adjacent 4 July — sort of like the “Black National Anthem.” But good luck getting rid of it! (Although I suppose it could be dual purposed as voting day and Juneteenth, which makes a lot of sense actually).

I also hate MLK Jr. day — for its timing. It’s too close to the Christmas/New Year’s holidays, right when everyone is getting back to business. And then, because Good Friday/Easter has been abolished, there’s a long dry haul (excepting the barely observed President’s Day, and it’s early too) until Memorial Day. So if it’s MLK, I would prefer observing his death day in April.

Just airing a pet peeve!

By: Skip

Skip — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:02:47 +0000

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/does_georgia_s_algorithm_assisted_massive_documented_election_fraud_rise_to_the_level_of_a_treasonous_coup_d_etat.html

As said, electronic vote fraud is the 800 pound Gorilla in the room and no one is allowed to disturb him