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Originally Posted by Scorpyo
I love it. Mail-in or no mail-in voting is the most newsworthy event in our lives today. What a bunch of crap. I'm surprised they haven't come up with VVM. Voters Votes Matter. If the people who represent us are really concerned about getting an actual and honest vote count, which I firmly believe they aren't, they could ask people with brains for their opinions. For example they could extend the voting period to say 5 days. Then they could have seniors only from 8 AM to 10 AM each day (or something like that). Costco did that for shoppers and it seemed to work out fine. I'm sure there's other great ideas out there. But then again, why would I compare a successfully run private enterprise with a blankety blank run you know what.
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There are so many rational and easily adopted ideas for solving this issue. But, as you state, we're asking people (elected officials) who have no idea how to actually get anything accomplished to enact legislation that might cost them their job since the only way they can keep their job is to ensure those that don't like/agree with them are not allowed their legal voice (vote). If our elected officials were actually held accountable to voters they might just start doing their job(s).
I also agree that everyone should be responsible for casting their OWN VOTE in person, by mail or in the future via the internet (it's coming - just maybe not in our lifetime). If you are going to vote by mail then there needs to be a reasonable cutoff to allow states to validate your vote. Ballot harvesting or anything remotely related to such a practice should never be allowed.