Tessio says..."hell, he can't do that; that screws up all my arrangements!"
I think that voting should be 1 day -— 24 hours ——— no early voting and no absentee ballots other than military or Foreign Service (Embassy Staff) ballots should be cast. Start the 24 hours at midnight and go through 11:59 PM. If someone is too sick or too infirm to get to a polling place that is simply too bad.
All ballot boxes must be turned in at one time and no counting can be done until the boxes have been delivered to the counting location.
No partial results will be released. The winner will be announced and the totals published at 6:00PM (18 hours later) the day following the election.
Exit polling should be forbidden as it can and has been used to influence the outcomes of elections.
Each precinct manager must turn in their ballot boxes no later than 45 minutes after the polls close and sign an affidavit certifying that there are no undelivered ballot boxes. After that point, no additional ballots can be included in the count or any RECOUNTS.
This would go as far as the voter ID towards eliminating stolen elections
Sounds sensible.
Tessio says..."hell, he can't do that; that screws up all my arrangements!"
Back in the “olden days”, everybody voted on the same day. Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and voting was held in almost every school. It just never was a problem. Only ones who complained were the town drunks because you couldn’t buy alcohol while the polls were open.
Everyone I knew back then always voted in person. Now we have more days to vote and more ways to vote but seems to me like most people don’t take advantage of any of them.
I’m with you.
There’s some tough love in your post and I have no problem with that.
I’d go one step further and make certain public employees are at work on election day. They form an electioneering army on election day in Illinois. They get paid and get an extra day off.