Posted on 09/28/2012 1:19:57 PM PDT by Lmo56
IMHO, early voting has gotten WAAAAAY out of hand.
Being given a month to vote is overkill - if something should happen to change your mind in the interim, TOO BAD. The deed is done.
I think that a voting weekend might be appropriate, plenty of time - and if you want to vote early for any reason, you have to vote absentee.
Either that, or having the option to change your early vote right up to Election Day ...
Any thoughts?
I don’t care if they have a month to vote.
But I don’t vote early because I’m afraid someone will manipulate it.
I’d like to see every election center publish the control procedures that are in place.
“Is It Me - Or Has “Early Voting” Gotten Out Of Hand?”
It’s not you.
Early voting HAS gotten out of hand.
Moreso, the entire concept of “early voting” should be abolished. There should be but ONE “voting day”, as specified in the Constitution. That is the day that people should vote. Don’t “mend” early voting — END it.
Everything that has been done in the past couple of decades to “make voting easier”, actually makes cheating and the subversion of the system easier.
We should go back to the old ways. If you want to vote, you go to the polls on the first Tuesday in November. NO EXCEPTIONS, except for a very few who have absolutely no other way to render their votes — soldiers on duty away from their home states, elderly and infirm, etc.
Further, I believe that “electronic voting” should be abolished or otherwise limited to systems in which some kind of paper entry ballot remains after the vote is cast. There must be “a trail left behind”.
Further, there should be no “outside counting” of votes (a la the counting that has been contracted out to Spain, of all places). Local votes must be “counted locally”.
I also believe there should be changes in the way election results are reported. Normally, vote tallies from municipalities and districts are posted as those locales report. Always, the big cities lag, and always, this opens up opportunities for manufacturing votes to change the outcome.
Instead, all vote tallies should be forwarded to the highest official (Secretary of State at the state level), and be held UNOPENED, until EVERY precinct has submitted its results. No more “Crawford Notches”, etc. No district should know the results of any other district until ALL counting has been completed. This is going to wreck “election night reporting”, but who needs the network B.S., anyway? I’ll gladly wait until morning to know the results, if this makes it more difficult for the ‘rats to cheat.
OK, I’ve had my say. Fire away!
How about going back to the basics. We have an election day. If we require everyone to vote on that day, or a properly executed absentee ballot, it would reduce the opportunity for fraudulent votes.
“Early voting” is a polite way of saying voter fraud. IMHO.
I totally agree. Other than physically being away on election day, too bad.
In Mississppi we just have “election day”, I guess we are backwards that way.
I not only think early voting has gotten out of hand, but I’m starting to think the blue inked finger thing might be in order.
Road Glide - One last item for your list. No more of the “Must be postmarked by election day” crap. You’ve had your absentee ballots plenty long enough to fill them out and get them mailed. If they show up after the polls close, they’re invalid. Toss ‘em out.
These trickle-in ballots hold up the whole process for days, sometimes weeks. The more time that passes before the winner is established, the more time for democrat mischief.
It gives people a chance to vote more often.
Although I agree with you in principle, I was not able to cast my vote in the 2010 elections because of work related issues. I'm a water & sewer utility worker. We had a major sewer lift station fail and it required maximum effort to get things corrected. By the time we were finished, the polls had closed. So this year I'm voting early to prevent this from happening again. This election is too important to me (and America).
Yes. Everyone in the country should cast his vote based on the same information. These early-voters don't know what might happen in Africa, what might come out in the debates, or even if the banking system will collapse between now and Election Day.
Why not just let anyone vote for anything anytime he damn well feels like it?
One thing people should be aware of, “absentee” ballots, at least in some states, are not anoymous/secret ballot.
Note the bar code on the ballot. Just sayin’.
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