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Good, just don't vote for anyone not including that as part of the bill.
The security of elections has been studied and the issues publicly discussed, the American people overwhelmingly back voter ID. It's a lot different than the Democrats' pass a bill and read it later.
Do you have any of those studies so that I can read them?
What does the square quotes mean?
How would that impact voting at all?
How? Somebody still needs to vote.
How does the length of time for early voting impact the vote if you only count latest vote or the vote left on election day.
Why not count it then, this must be exceedingly hard to make into a voter fraud scheme.
Voter ID won't help with this scenario. Banning mail voting would, but then that disenfranchises citizens who are unable to physically get to the polls.
Again, requiring an ID to vote won't solve this.
Unless those bogus registrations were voting, this seems like a case where people were getting paid by a company based on the number of voters they registered, and were defrauding their employer
I do agree that mailing everyone a ballot creates unnecessary risks.
There are actually provisions to resolve this scenario. Ballots have to be locked in at some point before the election for printing purposes, regardless of mail voting or early voting. If a candidate dies after the lock-in but before the election, they stay on the ballot. If they win, there's a special election as if they had died in office. There have been a couple cases of people winning elections posthumously.
it was my way of implying that "potentially senile" means what was going on was that caregivers were manipulating old people (who can't even remember their grandchildren's names) into voting for candidate of the candidate of their choosing, and an Alzheimer's patient isn't going to know the difference or remember that it even happened.
If someone get's their neighbors ballot or a ballot for the previous resident due to everyone in the state being mailed on whether they requested one or not, and fills it out and mails it in, that can go undetected in a lot of circumstances.
No its not. Why would you have a hard time?
But there's a difference between mail-in voting, and ID-free voting.
The reality is, in an ID free system, we don't know, and we can't know with a high degree of accuracy.
Yes, if it's really assisting them.
If there was a good way to do signature verification, I may agree.
Sure it does.
From what I can tell, you only need to do this once, not every election. If grandma registered to vote by mail five years ago, she's going to keep getting a ballot every year until she's struck from the rolls as deceased or changes her address.
Pennsylvania was one of the states on your map that supposedly requires no ID to vote (that's not strictly true - you have to show your ID the first time you vote at your polling place), but when I've voted by mail, I can track my ballot and see when it's mailed to me, when it's received by the election office, and when it has been counted. Even without an ID, every voter registration exists as a record in the registration database, and they can associate a ballot (or, more likely the envelope, to keep it anonymous) with that registration record in order to track whether that registrant has voted. As far as I know, every state that does mail voting has a similar system.
The impression I'm getting is that it needs to be done on a per ballot request basis for Canadian federal elections.
You can track your ballot, but that's because you're expecting it to come, and you're the one mailing in.
Where is this voter fraud in Minnesota (or why you think California is next)? Citation is needed.
Right. We're talking about a situation in which the authorities know that a registration is fraudulent (your example was the couple in Minnesota who submitted 500 fraudulent registrations). If you know which registrations are fraudulent, then you can check to see if they have voted.
Right. We're talking about a situation in which the authorities know that a registration is fraudulent (your example was the couple in Minnesota who submitted 500 fraudulent registrations). If you know which registrations are fraudulent, then you can check to see if they have voted.
Here's the most recent study I know of, published just this week:
Whoops.
I have no idea why you insist on just providing screenshot of things rather than links. There's literally nothing in the screenshot you provided that says anything about it being an every-election thing. That said, it seems you're correct, per this webpage:
It took two years to charge them, but it was flagged immediately. Because the system works.
It would be, if those were things that every citizen had access to free of charge.
We could maybe copy the whole of it. See their ID requirements to vote:
