[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Even the Orange One only claimed 5000.
Turned out it was about four!

Be careful, spent a month in the penalty box for less.

[nhtexasrn]

Originally Posted by bruce213

Anything to make it harder to vote.

It has never been hard to vote.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by nhtexasrn

It has never been hard to vote.

...for many. For others, it is difficult and is being made more difficult every year.

[Wondering]

Originally Posted by njbchbum

Fewer dead people will likely be voting this way?

Less than four and the culprits are elephants followers!

[Wondering]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Both myself and my wife received emails stating that:
Your Vote-by-Mail request has EXPIRED.
Now I am confused as I always check the box on a voters form that I want to continue to vote by mail. I call the number on the form, talk to a very nice lady and was informed that a law was passed that voters need to reregister their desire to vote by mail every voting cycle (I think I got that correct). I was able to do this over the phone.
I almost thought this was a SCAM or SPAM email, so be careful.

Yet another way to discourage people from voting by mail. Pathetic!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Jack58033

Seems redundant and a waste of labor and money. Who is trying to keep the old folks from voting?

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Who changed the law? There’s your answer…….

All the old people who voted for the people with the authority to make that decision. That's who's trying to keep old folks from voting.

Talk about shooting yourself in the face...

[M2inOR]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

What’s so hard about going to a polling station and showing a government issued ID in order to vote. If everyone did that we could all move on from the constant claims of election fraud.

Hard to vote in person while polling places are open when you are on vacation out of the area.

I've voted by mail for decades, including my most recent 3 years here in The Villages.

[RUCdaze]

We should go back to the old days and vote on the first Tuesday in November. Make Election Day a national holiday, keep the polls open for 14 hours, and make courtesy transportation available to all who need it. If you don't care enough to vote on Election Day, you don't care enough to vote. Don't give me this hardship crap.

[Hardlyworking]

Originally Posted by M2inOR

Hard to vote in person while polling places are open when you are on vacation out of the area.

I've voted by mail for decades, including my most recent 3 years here in The Villages.

That’s what absentee ballots are for.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by RUCdaze

We should go back to the old days and vote on the first Tuesday in November. Make Election Day a national holiday, keep the polls open for 14 hours, and make courtesy transportation available to all who need it. If you don't care enough to vote on Election Day, you don't care enough to vote. Don't give me this hardship crap.

When you speak of "the old days" is that before or after the 19th amendment? That right there could cut the lines in half. Or maybe you want to go back even farther and reduce the lines even more.

Absentee/mail-in voting and early voting are solutions to real problems mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The current number of polling places and technology in use simply cannot support one-day voting; come up with a solution and perhaps we can go back to that. I suspect that in a few years many of us will cast our votes from our computers and phones.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Hardlyworking

That’s what absentee ballots are for.

You do realize that absentee ballots ARE mail-in ballots, right?

[M2inOR]

Originally Posted by RUCdaze

We should go back to the old days and vote on the first Tuesday in November. Make Election Day a national holiday, keep the polls open for 14 hours, and make courtesy transportation available to all who need it. If you don't care enough to vote on Election Day, you don't care enough to vote. Don't give me this hardship crap.

And then there are those who work for a living and are out of town.

Or are serving our country in faraway lands.

Yes, there does need to be security and looking out for voter fraud, too.

Everyone who is eligible to vote, should be able to vote. And those not eligible to vote, should have their ballots remain uncounted, AND be held accountable; what should the penalty be.

In my previous state, Oregon, they've had vote-by-mail for 20+ years for everyone, and absentee voting for decades. Yes, there has bee some fraud, but mostly slaps on the wrist. In recent years, a group provided a convenient "service", collecting ballots to be turned in. Unfortunately, they forgot. The penalty was negligible.

Further, a few years ago, Oregon "helped" voters by providing postage-paid, business-reply envelopes for returning ballots by USPS in addition to providing ballot drop boxes. Yes, Oregonians complained that providing a stamp themselves was too expensive.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JBarracks

Unless one is infirm or is not going to be near one's polling place during the voting days, why would you vote by mail when it is a short cart ride to voting booth here in TV?

You can make a copy of your vote so that in case of a close election.........you have proof. Which someday you MIGHT just need.

[Dahabs]

Originally Posted by rustyp

At last count 11780 in Georgia.

[DennisDee]

Any reasonable method of voting should be acceptable as long as the identity and eligibility of the voter can be 100% verified. This will be harder to do with multiple voting methods as there will be different security and verification concerns. Voter verification must stand up to scrutiny in the event of a dispute. This is further complicated because each state has different voting rules. IMO - This is not an easy task.