All minority groups favor voter ID laws
Rasmussen also found that on one key election reform issue, voter identification, support remains high. Overall, 74% of likely voters said that voter ID should be required, including 90% of Republicans and 59% of Democrats.
And despite complaints from some Democrats, including the president, that reforms like ID requirements are racist, even majorities of minorities don’t think so. The Rasmussen analysis added, “While some have claimed voter ID laws discriminate against racial minorities, majorities of every racial group — 76% of whites, 60% of black voters, and 78% of other minorities — agree that requiring photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections.
But there’s one key minority group that disagrees – and that’s the leftists who are currently running the federal government and the blue states.
If the problem is that minorities can’t vote because they don’t have photo ID, why is the solution to make the law so they can vote without such ID? Wouldn’t it be better to help them get photo ID, so they can vote AND cash checks AND board airplanes AND enter Federal buildings etc.?
bof (5:49m pm), like DUHH. [ wink ]
In the case of the NC voter ID law, there were extensive work-arounds and allowances for people who don’t drive, or who have only tribal IDs, or who are so old that they didn’t have proper birth certificates (from the old days, among minority populations). Opponents couldn’t find prospective voters who were unable to vote because they lacked ID. In fact, in the election in which Voter ID was in force, before leftist courts struck it down, minority participation was UP.
This isn’t about fairness to minorities. It’s about the ability to cheat in elections.
Voter ID is one aspect of restoring ballot security. Other aspects.
1. Limit the issuance of postal ballots to people who qualify to place one on standing order (renewable quadrennially). These would be people who have an abiding problem which inhibits them from voting at the ordinary time. That would be government employees posted abroad (and their spouses living with them), servicemen (and spouses living with them), non-commuter college students under age 25, miscellaneous eligible persons living in institutional housing, homebound persons, people whose regular work involves frequent extralocal travel, and, arguably, people who live more than a certain distance from the nearest polling station (say, 8.5 miles). About 90% of the voting population should be doing so in person.
2. Move voting times to Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon.
3. Require, by law, that all postal ballot kits be in the mail to voters not less than 50 days before election day. No exceptions.
4. Have all postal ballot kits be equipped with and arrive at the county board of elections in multilayered wraps: opaque envelope with the ballots in it, marked only with the precinct; an envelope which has the identifying information of the voter and his signatures on it; and for the outer layer a priority mailer sent to the voter as part of his kit.
5. Have a board of two commissioners – one Democrat, one Republican – undertake signature checks each workday on the previous workday’s arrivals. Accepted ballots would be sorted into locked cabinets with pigeonholes for each precinct (with the identifier envelope removed and placed in a plastic recepticle, initialed, and sealed). Rejected ballots would be placed in a locked cabinet. Every cabinet would have two locks, one fitting the Republican commissioner’s key, one the Democratic key. After results are certified, the locked cabinet would be opened and the rejected ballots returned to sender, with a few turned over to the sheriff’s department for further inquiry. The last session of signature checks would be on the Friday or Saturday morning of the election. Any ballots arriving later would be placed in a locked cabinet and returned to sender when the election results are certified. Every postal ballot due to be counted must have been vetted by Saturday afternoon on election day. The cabinets housing the vetted ballots would on that Saturday afternoon be transported to a gymnasium there to be opened and tabulated by two-person teams of Republican and Democratic clerks.
6. Set up one precinct per 1,000 residents, no one per 3,000 residents (the national mean) or one per 6,000 (the Georgia mean). New York has managed this, so the other states should get on it.
7. Have at least one Republican and one Democratic registrant at each polling station on each shift. Set up an online bidding system which has aspirant poll inspectors submit rank-ordered lists of their preferred shifts to work (which may be at any precinct in the county, with the proviso that they can only be awarded back-to-back shifts if both such are at the same precinct) along with the monetary compensation they’ll accept for working in that precinct on that shift. (If your state does not have party-preference registration, institute it now).
8. Have all ballots counted by hand or with electro-mechanical tabulators which are not networked. Make this so at polling stations and downtown.
9. Have elections administered by a two-person board of elections in each county. One commissioner would be appointed by the Democratic county chairman, the other by the Republican county chairman. The more populous counties would have formal vice-commissioners as well. Have the manpower in the office would be allocated to each commissioner, and all would be discretionary hires from a pool of people who had passed a mild screening examination. (The commissioners themselves would also have to pass this examination). Replicate this at the state level, with a board of four commissioners – two Republican and two Democratic. The state board’s job would be receive and rule on designating petitions filed for offices elected from constituencies that cross county lines, to certify vote totals in contests which feature balloting in more than one county, to publish a compendia of results and data, and to set certain technical standards. End the Secretary of State’s participation in elections administration.
10. Have new voter registrations arriving each day checked by teams of two clerks – one Republican and one Democratic – against databases maintained by various state agencies. (The Department of Corrections, the Secretary of State, and the Department of Revenue). Forms which had facial deficiencies or which did not pass through the database screens would be returned to sender with a brief explanation; suspicious attempts would be flagged to the sheriff.
11. Have a stock check of the entire database, ideally undertaken annually but certainly undertaken quadrennially. Teams of Republican and Democratic clerks would check each forms on file against the state databases, placing those not passing on a suspended list and sending a postcard to the address in question. Each segment of the database would be vetted at the same time in every stock-check cycle.
12. Publish the voter roll twice a year, once the last Friday in March and once the first Friday in September. The former would be a list of those eligible to vote in May and August and to sign petitions due to be filed in July. The latter would be a list of those eligible to vote in November and sign designating petitions due at the end of January. Those who registered at 17 would be on the list, with their date of eligibility marked.
13. Have for each precinct an enrollment book for the voter to sign on receiving his ballot pack. (This is done in New York). Each page would have images of four registrants signatures over which would be their printed name. The signature image is covered by the desk clerks and the voter signs in below. The clerks then check the signature and hand the voter his ballot pack.
14. Require an aspirant voter to put his pinky in indelible ink before handing over any ballot pack.
15. Simplify elections by reducing the number of elected offices, by having all non-judicial elected officials service four year terms, by having all judges serve twelve year terms, by moving ballot propositions and judicial elections to May, and by having all offices of a given type elected at the same berth in each quadrennium: federal offices in year 1; municipal councils, county councils, mayors, and county executives in year 2; Governor and state legislature in year 3; other offices in year 4.
The leftists who are currently running the federal government and the blue states… know better.
Art Deco – you have laid out the various security measures well. All of these are in Michigan law. Problem was in 2020, the Soros backed Secretary of State Benson waived many of the safeguards without the legislature pushing back. We are working to bring them back. Additionally, the expansion of drop boxes has proven to be very problematic. It has made ballot harvesting much easier. When the documentary “2000 mules” by Dinesh Souza comes out you will see why.
Regarding photo ID that is an old canard. All states provide a mechanism to get a no cost photo id. If a person doesn’t avail themselves of it, then it is on that person. If you want to stop a person spouting that propaganda, ask them to name a specific instance where a legitimate person was barred from voting by lacking an ID in the past 10 years. I have shut quite a few people up that way. Then charge them to search and find people who lack ID to help them get one. Now you make them have to work and I find that people like to talk but not work.
But the most important thing is become involved in the process. That has been my focus along fighting against pornography in the school library. You would not believe what is on the shelves today. We found to date around 20+ sexually explicit “juvenile” and teen books we have brought to the school board and administration attention. When they did nothing to address it, we read passages out of the books in the school board meetings. They had to be bleeped out when televised. They have now frozen us out of review requests. We are not going away and now we are in the court of public opinion by going to civic groups and churches and showing them the contents of the books. When they see it that is causing quite a stir. We will get changes in our school boards. Parents particularly mothers are stepping up to run and we are training and supporting them. Grassroots activism at its best. Obama would be proud of us.
Looking at all sides of this question, though, is it fair to dead people to deny them the vote?
Moreover, is it fair to Democrats to actually enforce fair and legal elections?
We may not necessarily approve of allowing the dead to vote or allowing Democrats to rig elections, certainly; but we must be able to discuss these issues without fear or threat of censure, ridicule or cancelation…
Or violence.
As Voltaire said…
Well. I’ve ducked the decennial Census counters for over 40 years.
One less illegal body to be over-counted because if I did, they would.
“…there’s one key minority group that disagrees – and that’s the leftists who are currently running the federal government and the blue states.”
Crafty, aren’t they?
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