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Wed 23 Nov, 2016 09:03 am
The United States is beset by many problems. There is teabaggerism, oligarchy, and so forth. But, one of the first issues that should be addressed, in my less than humble opinion, is allowing people to vote and counting the vote.
1. Universal registration of qualified voters and all guaranteed access to the ballot box.
2. A paper trail of secured ballots. Electronic voting is fine, but there should be paper ballots, counted in total before the final result is announced.
3. Eliminate the Electoral college. Number 3 is not as important as numbers 1 and 2, but it is, according to me, time to do away with it.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
1. Universal registration of qualified voters and all guaranteed access to the ballot box.
Good idea, Ed. According to this release from Harvard:
"Starting in 2006, a consortium of 39 universities came together to create the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, the first truly large-scale academic survey project aimed at studying the midterm Congressional elections."
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cces/news/announcing-2014-cooperative-congressional-election-study
"The data used for this paper is from the 2008 and 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies...Our exploration of non-citizen voting in the 2008 presidential election found that most non-citizens did not register or vote in 2008, but some did. The proportion of noncitizens who voted was less than fifteen percent, butsignificantly greater than zero."
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Do-Non-Citizens-Vote-in-US-Elections-Richman-et-al.pdf
Some voter fraud organizations claim to have verified that more than 3 million illegal aliens voted in 2016. As we all know, Hillary Clinton is projected to win the popular vote by about 1 million votes. In that light, it's not hard to understand why Obama and Democratically-controlled "sanctuary cities" are so keen on refusing to enforce immigrations laws, eh?
You might want to remove the "qualified" part of this suggestion, eh?: "Universal registration of qualified voters..."
@layman,
You know how to gild a lily with ****.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
You know how to gild a lily with ****.
Does this mean we can't be friends, Ed?
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