Posted on 09/18/2020 1:39:45 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has introduced a plan to effectively ban ballot harvesting ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Ballot harvesting allows political operatives to collect and deliver as many ballots as they want so long as they are not paid based on the number of ballots they deliver. The loophole allows these operatives to be paid in most cases.
Gabbard said the reform is vital to ensuring that special interest groups do not corrupt the voting process for voters.
Gabbard said in a statement.:
This bill protects assistance from family members, household members, and caregivers as well as election officials and mail carriers acting in their official capacity. Voters will still have assistance, if they need it, to turn in their vote, but this bill makes sure that third-party special interest groups dont get between voters and the ballot box.
The plan would require that states only permit mail-in ballots to be handled by election officials, mail carriers, family members, and caregivers of the voter.
Nevadas June primary shows huge issues with mail-in voting. In Las Vegas, Nevada, more than 223,000 mail-in ballots were deemed undeliverable in the election about 17 percent of the total number of mail-in ballots sent out to voters, unsolicited.
Federal election data reveals that since 2012, about 28.4 million mail-in ballots have gone missing in each of the last four election cycles. According to Pew Research Center analysis, there are potentially 24 million ineligible or inaccurate voter registrations on state voter rolls.
Recent data has not shown a compelling public health justification for mail-in voting. In Wisconsins April election, only 52 of more than 400,000 voters and poll workers were confirmed to have contracted the Chinese coronavirus. None of those cases were fatal. This equals an infection rate below two-hundredths of one percent.
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she’s still hot!
Mexico has voter ID cards required to vote, and when you vote, they punch a hole in your card to prevent multiple votes in the same election.
I don't know if you get a 10% discount after you've accumulated enough punched holes
Of course, all this would only apply to Federal elections, for federal offices, as that is the legitimate concern of the federal government.
Let the states who have local authority use whatever system they wish to force the elections of their favorite sons and daughters to alderman, mayor or goobernor. They can do it the cheap way, by just following the federal rules for all voting, or they can have separate ballots for local and federal. Their call. It's a free country, ain't it?
Sometimes I almost like Tulsi...almost...
I’m still of the opinion that if she had run or been nominated by the dems, that she’d have beat Trump.
She’s conservative enough that the moderates and independents would go for her, along with all the never Trumpers and those dems who are reportedly holding their noses and voting for Trump.
Politics being what it is, and being from HI, unlikely she will switch parties anytime soon. She’d need to become much more established and trusted by the people - and maybe win a Senate seat first. She probably does have her eyes on that and I’d love to see her take out Senator Hirono but I think Hirono has 4 more years on her term.
She’s right, but her timing is suspect. This would have been important a few months ago, but the dems have had enough time to set up whatever it is they plan to do. Hopefully, President Trump and the rest of us are ready for them.
Agreed. Maybe the VA or another military position.
I disagree with Tulsi on a lot, but I like her. She’s honest and she’s open to debate rather than trying to cancel you.
(And yes, it doesn’t hurt that she’s attractive.)
Tulsi Gabbard would allow the charge of Bipartisanship, in an otherwise cutthroat partisan town. UN, or VA would be good. Trump has a number of people working for him that he can’t possibly agree with, and gets stuff done anyway.
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