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I question why so much emphasis and effort is being put toward stopping mail-in voting by American residents and almost no effort or public comments, toward stopping outside influence or meddling by other countries into our democratic process? It's almost as if_____.

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Originally Posted by Snowprint

I see nothing “ridiculous “ about making it easy to exercise your voting franchise. You make think someone should have to request something that is their right, but I don’t think you should have to make any extra effort to vote. Instead of making voting more difficult, what’s the problem with making voting as easy possible?
The “problem” is that there are many people, and ewe know who they are, that don’t believe everyone should be able to vote and try their best to make voting difficult. They talk about “voter fraud”, for example, when it doesn’t exist to even be a statistic. They make thousands and thousands of people, as seen in Georgia, vote at a single spot with impossibly long lines while more affluent White areas have plenty of voting sites that have no lines or minimum wait.
As Joseph Goebbels said, if you repeat a big lie long enough, people will start to believe it. We see that teaching being practiced today.
Everyone should be able to vote with the least effort possible. The only people against doing that are those who don’t want everyone to vote.
Another thing that should be eliminated is the Electoral College. It’s a remnant of slavery that was used to count each slave as 3/5ths of a person for counting votes to elect a President. No other elected office in the country allows a person who gets less votes get elected! If it wasn’t in the Constitution, it’d be unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause. Your vote carries more or less weight depending on where you live...talk about ridiculous! That’s why you never see a Presidential candidate campaign in Alabama or the most populous state, California. Instead they only appear in states like Florida, Ohio, etc. There shouldn’t be “battleground” states, only states with voters whose votes count the same as everyone else, not mattering where they live. Why should a Republican’s vote in New York be meaningless or a Democrat’s be the same in Alabama?
The Electoral College has no place in America and disenfranchises millions of Americans, It has no valid reason to exist today because slavery ended a long time ago. If you believe in democracy, and many of you don’t, you should rise up and have the stain of the Electoral College placed into the ash heap of history where it belongs.

So much here to comment on, but I'll leave you with this thought.Please go read some history on WHY we have the Electoral College, then come back and tell us WHY it should be eliminated in today's context. Have the small States gotten bigger?