"U.S. President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state"

That also lets victims deduct losses on their tax returns. No disaster declaration, no deduction.

"If you make 1000 copies of a cd, they'll all be identical."

And if you pass it around though 7 groups, does that INCREASE or DECREASE chances of a hack, versus only ONE link in the chain?

You took probability and statistics, right?

"It doesn't become slightly less accurate because it was copied."

You're right; my error.

But let's say it goes through 7 hands, vs one hand. Do all 7 have the exact same safety protocols?

Doesn't 7 allow more points to possibly hack?

"I put more trust in computer systems to track information that I do people."

We already do that.

And anybody who's ever copied a video onto a second format and noticed the new video isn't quite as good as the original, realizes the problems inherent with adding yet another link in the game of telephone.

"It will be software and computers and of course, AI."

Now, let's take VA's history of convictions, and pretend the software and computers have a 99.99% accuracy rate.

4.4 million people voted in the presidential election in Virginia in 2024. A 99.99% accuracy rate would mean 440 suppressed votes.

At their current rate, the number of votes suppressed in ONE presidential election would take Virginia over 4,000 years of voter fraud to equal.

"You really are obsessed with fraud. Try looking beyond your nose and see there is a lot more to be concerned with than just fraud."

You can't find ANY kind outside a half-dozen felons who easily got caught. Otherwise, your home state is averaging ONE VOTER FRAUD INCIDENT PER DECADE.

Where are these problems you speak of???

Here's hoping BillJohnson gets a notice there's already been a guy named William Johnson who voted.

Utah scoured its rolls, and found ONE illegal voter.

" It will be software and computers and of course, AI."

Oh, ffs. MORE errors. And more opportunities for hacks.

Pro tip: more links in the chain is almost never a good idea.

"Democrats want something else."

They want every legal voter to be able to cast their legal vote.

You know...representation to go with the taxation.

"Republicans want to see all states be held to the same high standards of transparent tracking voter eligibility and ballot integrity."

Hang Mike Pence!
~Those same Republicans.

"Republicans want to see all states be held to the same high standards of transparent tracking voter eligibility and ballot integrity."

"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state"
~DJT

"Republicans want to see all states be held to the same high standards of transparent tracking voter eligibility and ballot integrity."

What a riot.

"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
~David Frum

"I'm sorry you think keeping more accurate records is gumming up the system."

Where have the records been INACCURATE?

Meanwhile, giving someone else in the chain a responsibility INCREASES the chances for inaccuracy.

"I suspect similar questions have been asked as voting rights have evolved."

Your state has had TWO garden-variety instances of voter fraud in nearly 20 years.

You might as well guard against Alien Unicorn Invasions.

"Not uniformly across all states."

And what problems has that caused to date?

It wouldn't have stopped ANY of the illegal votes in VA over the last 19+ years.

"even the ones that do, it would not provide the same level of tracking as the new proposed systems."

Nonsense. We currently do ALL the steps you've outlined. This is merely a ploy to get Federal control over State elections.

We also can't count on the USPS to keep a completely updated list every moment. And what about multiple people with the same name and birthdate? The two most common are Josephina Hernandez (birthday 3/19), and Patrick Kelly (birthday 3/17).

Again, you'll be suppressing more votes than have EVER been illegally cast in VA.

"That also addresses the scenario I've talked about the most, which is a large number of ballots being lost or mishandled at one time. With individual tracking, officials would be much better able to determine which voters were affected and allow replacement ballots to be sent to the right people"

WE ALREADY DO THAT.

"It seems pretty fair to me. It would provide better tracking and accountability while helping identify ballots that were lost, delayed or otherwise unaccounted for.

That's the system we currently have, dumfuq.

Mailed ballots are tracked, serialized, watermarked, and more. Your ignorance on the subject is no reason to suppress 1000x the number of possible fraudulent votes.

" This is an upgrade to voting by mail."

And easier to control.

You know ... the real goal.

Outside of 8 Felons voting in 19 years, Bill's home state of Virginia has TWO voter fraud convictions during that time: one from an "unabashed conservative" who got back in line and got caught, the other a garden-variety "my late wife's absentee ballot is right here" kind.

Both cases involved exactly one extra vote each.

Where is this fraud in Virginia Bill is so worried about?