Election integrity cannot be ignored by Trump. If Biden wanted to put the country first, he would not have ignored it.
It is best for both parties and the country to insure elections are accepted. The Democrats have not accepted a presidential election with a Republican winner since 1996. Republicans did not accept 2020.
Secure elections are a solved problem. There is no logical reason that these solutions are not implemented other than there are those powers that be not wanting them to be.
This takes Congress and the President to address. The solution is that each State implements a system that meets requirements or their electoral votes will not be accepted.
Those that say elections are secure are outright liars and those that believe them are stupid. I can take you to any small town and show you election fraud. Vote harvesting from old folks homes. Voters voting in a ward that they no longer live.
If this is happening in a town where everyone knows what everyone is doing it is not hard to extrapolate what happens in metropolitan areas and especially with mail in ballots and no voter ID.
South Dakota has a very large RV resident population. Meaning people that do not really reside in the state get a PO Box and become residents. SD has no income tax and low tax on vehicle registration.
These RV residents exceed the population of people that live in some of the towns. In Presidential elections 420,000 people vote. When trillions are at stake and Zuck can cough up 450 million without blinking an eye, it doesnât take a con man to understand how you could influence elections by âgetting out the RVer vote.
On second thought, nothing can be done. Those that voted against Trump indicated we were voting in a dictator. We can hold them to that right? Trump can just announce that voter ID is required. That mail in ballots are not accepted and that he starts with 120 million votes.
He has more than four years. He is lifetime dictator. Those that criticized him are in hiding now and will shortly be rounded up. They are starting construction of a concentration camp just north of my place with furnaces and all.
The âeducatedâ with more education debt than they can pay back believed this garbage. I have no idea why I would question the education system other than I am a climate change denier.
@Hypatia you are right that he should not go back or worry about specifically 2020.
As a practical matter, a first step would be for Congress to pass a law that State elections must take place on a separate day from Federal elections, and that State & County matters (such as State Constitutional amendments, retention elections for State judges, bond issues, etc) are not allowed on the Federal ballot.
This would greatly simplify the ballot for Federal elections, simplify and speed up counting, and make election meddling easier to detect.
Requiring in-person voting on that day would take care of the RVers with residences in two States â and the possibly bigger problem of college students voting twice, at home and at their college location.
Nah, terrible idea.
Just make them separate ballots, and only allow mail-in of the federal ballots, and only by deployed military. Everyone else, and all state/local questions, should be decided on election day, in person. Counted as they are cast, and reported as soon as the polls close.
(Basically the French system, except that France doesnât allow mail-in at all. Their expats must vote in person at their embassies, and only get to vote on their national questions.)
Then you wonât like my other idea â to be elected to Federal office, a candidate needs to get 50%+1 of the votes of all registered voters. In effect, those who choose not to vote would be counted as votes for âNone of the Aboveâ. If no candidate reaches that level (which history suggests would be the norm), then an individual citizen would be randomly selected from the voter rolls to fill that elective office. Rather like a particularly distasteful Jury Service.
It would give the Political Class an incentive not to pad the voter rolls with the dead, the moved, and the illegals.
That said, having two separate ballots for Federal and State matters on the same day would at least be a step in the right direction.
Moscow favors Trump, while Tehran prefers Harris to win, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. The two U.S. adversaries have denied attempting to meddle in the U.S. election.
Aided by artificial intelligence, Iran has created websites that pose as legitimate local news sources to target both Muslim and Black populations in the U.S., including in swing states, experts said, though the sites appear to attract minimal readers. In a far more significant effort, Russia has invested heavily in overt and covert efforts to create Spanish-language content, which officials and experts said have grown considerably since Moscow sought to influence the last two presidential elections.
Recent efforts by U.S. agencies and some social media companies to identify and dismantle foreign operations to target minority voter groups have underscored how much the tactics have evolved since 2016. In that campaign year, Russia spammed social media with posts denigrating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Russiaâs 2016 efforts included attempts to suppress turnout for Black Americans, a strong Democratic constituency.
The influence of X.
X can prevent or facilitate election interference.
It was quite open that the (sort-of-English-language-speaking) UK ruling Labour Party sent activists to the US to interfere in the recent Presidential election. And leading Labour politicians made anti-Trump statements in an effort to influence the US election.
Forget Russia! Forget Iran! It is time to expunge the English from US politics. Letâs start by shutting down the US Embassy in London until the English come to their senses.
Correct, I donât.
I canât vouch for the accuracy of this image from the internet â but it is certainly thought-provoking.
Of course, correlation is not (necessarily) causation.
This would greatly simplify the ballot for Federal elections,
Or just prescribe a format whereby the federal elections are listed first.
simplify and speed up counting,
How? Itâs being done electronically. I guess it reduces the chances of spoiling a paper ballot, but thatâs not a big number.
and make election meddling easier to detect.
How? If anything, it makes things harder in that you lose comparisons.
Another issue is that it cements machine politics at the state level if federal candidates canât have coattails.
Donât know about your neck of the woods â but that is exactly the situation in my State. Federal elections are listed first, and then we roll on to two pages worth of State elections, State judges, State Constitutional amendments, County bond issues, and probably other things I have forgotten.
If counting is all being done fast & efficiently by Dominionâs proprietary electronic machines, why does it take places like Arizona and California days â weeks â to count ballots?
Personally, I would like to see FedGov rolled back to the limited role it had in the Constitution. FedGov should concentrate on doing a few things well, instead of blundering about doing everything badly. Restore the role of the States â and one contribution to doing that would be to annex Federal elections to a separate day.
As they say about the stolen election. There is no proof of this claim.
The theory of Russian election interference is so repetitive and tiresome
The Arizona fiasco reflects really badly on the Republicans. As far as I can tell, they are 100 percent responsible for the cluster. If there is cheating, blame the Republicans. If the vote counting is slow, blame Republicans. They are responsible. They are an embarrassment. If they cannot handle putting in place a decent system, I wouldnât allow them to run a dog kennel.
Agreed â and that seems to be a widespread feeling among citizens. President Trumpâs victory was an endorsement of him personally, and not of the Republicrat wing of the UniParty. Normally, we would have expected President Trumpâs win to have dragged along major Republicrat gains in the House & Senate â and yet those gains have been distinctly modest.
If the Institutional Republicrats in the DC Swamp were smart, they would recognize their problem and do something about it.