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I've flown for over 30 years. I've yet to show a "Real ID" and only showed a passport when flying internationally. (Because a passport is required for me to reenter my own country. Like my accent doesn't give me away. SMH.)
What is the "security" gained by IDs for all plane passengers?
Next time some Saudi national flies his ballot into the Pentagon, you will have a point. The most danger at the polling place is some fooltrying to “stop the steal”
Many weaknesses have been found in our election system. While Lara Trump was able to address the observer problems by finding over 100,000 election observers/workers for the last federal election, other problems are widespread. Security in the chain of custody of election ballots is weak. Electronic machines are quite vulnerable, basic security measures such as securing passwords have too often not been taken. Some machines have been hooked up to the Internet which allows the potential of foreign actors. Somewhere around a million and perhaps more Chinese anchor babies have gained U.S. citizenship, they can be sent to our swing states to alter elections. And 10 to 20 non-citizens entered our country during one administration, raising the numbers for potential wrongdoing. States like California can take WEEKS to count ballots. Vote harvesting is a problem. Mail-in ballots create vulnerabilities, hopefully a system where each mail-in ballot can be tracked will be implemented.
Did those 100,000 spot anything?
In what way? I've seen plenty of footage of armed escorts for ballot boxes, etc.
While there are unfortunate stories about voting machines hooked up to the internet for software updates, I am unaware of any cases of machines connected while actively recording votes or using the internet to upload official results from the machine.
What do you mean by 1 M anchor babies gaining citizenship? Chinese immigrants have had 1 M babies in the US in some undefined period? Babies born in the US are citizens regardless of their parent's citizenship. The issue with "anchor babies" was for their mothers to potentially gain legal rights to live in the US. Having a US citizen child does not make one a citizen. Those "1 M Chinese anchor babies" will have to wait the same period to participate in US elections that the rest of us US born babies do -- 18 years. The rest of it sounds exactly like the same nativist notions about my own ancestors 180 years ago being under control of the foreign pope. Sigh.
10 to 20 people aren't going to change an election even if they are all nefarious.
This is a problem with using central counting facilities. The equipment is too expensive and only needed very rarely, so they don't buy enough of it. See also Arizona, Detroit, Milwaukee (absentee), and any other large jurisdiction using central counting over local precincts. Precincts are parallel and faster.
What is that? Is that the thing where you take someone else's ballot to the drop box? How is that a problem?
As others who use those systems (not I as I last voted absentee in the 20th century) have said many times on this board, tracking of ballot envelopes already exists and is used. (If you track actual ballots, then the secret ballot is voided.)
But, but I was reliably informed by the left that this sort of thing does not happenMahady Sacko, a 50-year-old Philadelphia resident who was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in 2000, "allegedly unlawfully voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office," and, "falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen in order to vote and register to vote," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
An FBI special agent investigating the case said Pennsylvania state voting records showed Sacko also "voted in the following federal elections: the 2008 general election, the 2012 general election, the 2016 primary election, the 2016 general election, the 2020 primary election [and] the 2020 general election."
Illegal immigrant charged with voting in Pennsylvania in 5 presidential elections
Mauritanian man allegedly voted in five presidential elections in Pennsylvania despite being ordered deported from the U.S. in 2000, prosecutors said.www.foxnews.com
Say it ain't so Joe.
It's amazing. So many people in denial. And why would anyone be against basic safeguards?
harvardharrispoll.com
Nope, I was informed very plainly that illegal aliens cannot vote in elections and that it was a fantasy to say that any had.
The only voting fraud confirmed was on the behalf of Republicans. That’s why your side is trying so much harder to keep Americans from voting.
so this illegal immigrant in the OP voted on behalf or Republicans? That's the tale you want us to believe? hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Just letting you bask in your occasional correct notation. It reminds me of my uncle’s saying:
