Alert reader and conscientious citizen Elaine Frick makes the following request:
I think you should publicize the new League of
Women Voters site www.vote411.org I just
ran into it. I’ve been a League member for years and always appreciate their
creative ways of making the voting process more educated and accessible for all
of us.Copied from their description is the
following:"… a
one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan
information to the public with both general and state-specific information on
the following aspects of the election process:
- Absentee ballot information
- Ballot measure information (where applicable)
- Early voting options (where applicable)
- Election dates
- Factual data on candidates in various federal, state and local races
- General information on such topics as how to watch debates with a critical
eye- ID requirements
- Polling place locations
- Registration deadlines
- Voter qualifications
- Voter registration forms
- Voting machines
An important component of VOTE411.org is the polling place locator, which
enables users to type in their address and retrieve the poll location for the
voting precinct in which that address is located. The League has found that this
is among the most sought after information in the immediate days leading up to,
and on, Election Day.
Consider it done. I’ll put it in the election links at left.
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I used to be a member of the League of Women Voters. What joke! Most of them were Democrats who didn’t care a bit about honest elections. Their Presidential debates were pathetic, but at least not rigged by the two parties which took it away from them via the phony Debate Commission.
Maybe a joke, maybe not. At least, they have some good points which would certainly improve our SC voting system. Such as:
1) a voting “period” as in Oregon & Washington rather than just one day;
2) vote/ballot collection locations instead of polling places – again OR & WA;
3) no registering to vote – all legal state residents over 21 yrs age are eligible to vote;
4) voting machines (including your home PC) produce ballots which are read at a voting station rather than precinct stations – mail in or hand deliver.
5) all of the above means virtually no standing in line ‘cept for procrastinators.
Oh, yeah, and a primary/election system like Louisiana where if one wins the primary (50% + 1) they win the election, or the top two vote-getters runoff 30 days later if <50%.
Never happen, of course, in South Carolina where voters are content to be the pawns of the Dumbocants and Repugnicants.
Spencer, you left off a few more methods to destroy our elections through fraud:
6) No identification necessary
7) No proof of citizenship or residency
8) If someone votes in someone else’s name, don’t prosecute them. Let both of them vote.
9) Voting over the Internet
10) Vote over the phone, by dialing an 800 number.
11) Let millions more illegal aliens come in here and then grant them Instant Citizenship, even dual citizenship, so they can vote in both countries.
I don’t really understand what you are trying to say.
6) Identification definitely should be required.
7) Proof of citizenship should be required though it never has been.
8) Prosecute all fraud.
9) No voting over the internet, but receiving ballots from the internet – yes.
10) Sort of stupid, don’t you think?
11) Also very stupid.
I just added some more ways to encourage voter fraud which are being pushed by the Democratic Party. Here are some more:
12) Allow voting by felons on probation, because so many blacks have criminal records that it is “disenfranchising their race”.
13) Allow voting by inmates while still in prison.
14) Make difficult all absentee voting by our armed forces
Well, don’t you think there are ways to circumvent these types of actions so that voting is easier yet more secure and available for those legally allowed to vote?
Isn’t it true that felons in SC cannot vote until their record is “clean”? That is, until all time is served including probation?
And wouldn’t the methods that I propose above make all voting the same so that absentee voting is not necessary? All voting would be by the same method — computer generated ballots which are mailed or delivered to a particular state voting station?
And please tell me just who is encouraging voter fraud?
Voting should be a shared experience of citizenship, with qualified voters participating together in the process. Anyone too lazy to stand in line at the polls doesn’t really care enough that they should have any input.
Real reforms:
1. No voting for those on welfare.
2. No voting for those who don’t own real property or a business, or pay income taxes, until we can get rid of property taxes and income taxes.
3. Maybe no voting by government employees.
Having to stand in line for hours to vote is not lazy, it’s STUPID. We’re voting via “horse and buggy” methods in the 21st century. We should take advantage of all this fantastic technology we have and make voting better, smarter and easier for all.
Good luck on your three latest suggestions for voting improvements.
Voting absentee should be for those who reall want to practice citizenship, but cannot.
Why make it easier for slob voters and illegal voters to cancel the votes of those who really care enough to be informed?
My views on only limiting voting to those who are pulling the wagon, and not riding on it, is the same view that Jefferson and others who founded this country had. They just did not anticipate the degree of urban mooching that we now have today.
Maybe we cannot restore their vision of citizenship, but we can sure police the polls to keep out the fraud and laziness.
1. Abolish straight party voting.
2. Mix up the names, so the voters have to KNOW who they are voting for.
3. You have to be literate, in English, in order to vote, because otherwise you are an ignorant menace to the process.
4. No taking notes into the voting booth.
5. No helpers.
6. A paper ticket printed at the time of each electronic vote that the voter must verify, if any electronic voting device is used.
For those who havent voted yet, you will be seeing I think about 5 referendum questions with lots of verbiage and fine print. I think some people will be in the booths for 10 or more minutes if they read them all. I voted early due to travel next week. Due to these refs, the lines could be very long.
Making voting easier doesn’t do so just for the “slobs” and “illegals”. They’ll be the same no matter what. And, with a computerized ballot system it would be much more difficult for illegals to vote.
Yes, Jefferson and the Founding Fathers did want only property owners to have the right to vote. But, trying to do that now is a totally impossible task. It AIN’T gonna happen and you know it.
Having a paper record of an electronic vote does absolutely nothing to maintain security of a system. You still don’t know how your vote or any other was counted, if at all. Only a paper ballot which can actually be physically counted and recounted is the way to go.
It’s really great to talk about all these wonderful ideas we all have, but NONE of them will ever be enacted. As long as the Dumbocrats and the Repugnicants run the states and this country, not a thing will change.
Do you have any ideas for fixing it, Spencer?
I am voting for Emile and Tim Moultrie.
Yes, I have some ideas. Many are posted above and primarily I advocate using a paper ballot produced by computer from a county database (already on line). Said ballot being read at least twice by optical scan. Recounts by scan if necessary.
As for getting rid of Dumbocrats and Repugnicants, the only way I see is voting for third party or write-in candidates. Thankfully there are some on the ballot Tuesday.
I’m “leaning” toward toward Mr. DeFelice and will probably vote for him. Definitely Mr. Moultrie for Ed Supe. Ravenel because Patterson is just too damned old (I can say that because I’m 65 and too old as well). Eckstrom because there’s no way I can vote for “Daddy’s boy Drew”. Definitely Lindman because he’s NOT Stan Spears.
Where there’s an option other than (D) or (R), that’s where I’m going. Hopefully many others will as well to at least get the attention of the career politicians and maybe start a trend.
Independent, third-party, write-in. That’s the only chance we have. Oh yeah, no incumbents if possible.
A pure paper ballot is the only way to have a fair and honest election. Absentee voting has long been a means of cheating.
Back in the late 1980s, a Libertarian won a seat in Congress, but the absentee ballots turned the tide for the Democrat. Security cameras in the Post Office captured postal workers filling out absentee ballots and backdating them. The courts had to send them to jail, but Congress refused to seat the Libertarian, and let the crooked Democrat keep the seat.