U.S. Politics

[Richard Smith]

Proper IDs are required for most everything these days. Doctor visits, flying commercial airlines, getting a tag for an automobile, etc, etc, etc. I cannot imagine anyone functioning normally in the USA these days without a proper ID card. If we want to have more confidence in our elections, proper ID cards should be required, period.

Agreed.  If you want citizens to have confidence in our elections, then have a national holiday on election day and require anyone who wants to vote to show up at the polls with an ID.  That would also allow the results to be known within hours because the votes would be cast on the voting machines which can be tabulated in hours.  The early voting situation - in some states close to two months - is fraught with risk of fraud and the results can't be known for days or weeks after the election because they are often hand counted after the polls close eroding confidence in the outcome.

[Royell Storing]

  2 Week Early In-Person Voting is OK by me. What I would add is a Daily Running Vote Total being made public. When anyone votes In-Person,  their vote would immediately be counted/tabulated and then added to the Publicly Posted Running Vote Totals for every candidate or proposition on that person's ballot. We are voting Then and There. We are Not making a contribution to a blood bank. 

[Charles Collins]

  2 Week Early In-Person Voting is OK by me. What I would add is a Daily Running Vote Total being made public. When anyone votes In-Person,  their vote would immediately be counted/tabulated and then added to the Publicly Posted Running Vote Totals for every candidate or proposition on that person's ballot. We are voting Then and There. We are Not making a contribution to a blood bank.

In-person early voting here involves (my experience anyway) scanning a “real ID” card into the system, signing my name on a touch-screen to apparently help verify my identity, obtaining a programmed card that I assume includes my identity, inserting that programmed card into the selection machine, selecting the people I voted for on the touch-screen on the selection machine, verifying my selections, printing the resulting ballot from the printer on the selection machine, taking my programmed card out of the selection machine, taking my printed ballot off of the printer of that selection machine and verifying the selections, taking both the programmed card and the printed ballot to a worker at voting machine, handing the programmed card to the worker, inserting the printed ballot myself into the voting machine, and waiting for the voting machine to confirm acceptance of the ballot. I think we were both finished voting and back in the car in about 15-minutes total. I would not enjoy waiting in line for hours. But if the only option was to do so (or to not vote), I would wait in line for hours (and complain about it the whole time). I am very thankful for early voting. If they wait to tally the early votes until after the polls have closed on Election Day, so be it. I can understand that they might not want the early voting results to influence the election-day voters’ decisions.

[Richard Smith]

You can tell the Dems know they are in trouble when they start rolling out the Trump/Vance/Musk are Hitler rhetoric and repeating the same long debunked stories about Trump hating the military.   Trump kept the military out of senseless wars.  Old Joe looked at his watch in boredom when they brought home dead soldiers.  Kacklin' Kamala never contacted the families of dead soldiers. 

[Richard Smith]

Despite all the hoopla about "record" early voting it is actual down by double digits in almost every state compared to 2020.  And the percentage of republican registered voters is up double digits in most states.  Good signs for Trump.  How are the polls even close with these results and Kamala sinking with Hispanics and males? 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/early-voting-trends-2024-2020-visuals-dg/index.html

[Royell Storing]

 Many states pay big money for the Smartmatic voting machines and their "maintenance" personnel that run/maintain this equipment. With the use of computers, having to wait several days for a state to tabulate enough votes to declare a winner is totally Bogus. If a state is going to have to wait several days for computers to count their ballots, they might as well go back to the paper ballots and PAY REAL PEOPLE/RESIDENTS to hand count the Paper Ballots vs paying Smartmatic Millions/$$. 

[Richard Smith]

So many sad, long faces on CNN after that Kamala town hall last night.  They did their best to prop her up but she is absolutely hopeless.  Even in a softball environment.  It reminded me a lot of the reaction to Old Joe's disastrous debate.  They are starting to see the writing on the wall.   It's still going to be close due all the forces acting on her behalf, though. 

[Royell Storing]

  They savaged Sarah Palin for being dumb. But, Harris issa Dem so the Fake News'ers do their best to gloss over her being a complete Dummy. The only way they can win is to rig it again. No other way. None.