Cor,

"These so-called "Americans" writing on drudge.com will lead us into the abattoir like Judas Goats."

I understand your message. Why is Americans in quotes. We're American in name only?

Who is going to slaughter us?

Dan,

I'll give you a hint.

You're not "seeing" what I'm writing.

Your brain can't wrap around the logistics.

I taught college level classes for several years.

I've seen that in people before.

Dan,

"Feel free to explain why, after five years, ZERO people have come forward with your scenario of their mailed ballot stolen from them."

Logic!?

Reading comprehension !!!!!! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE OMG

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SHEESH...And you're actually serious!!!!

Can somebody explain to him?

Dan,

Logic!? OMG.....ROTF

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE HAHAHAHAHA

I meant that for Laura.

Typed Dan because he's so infuriating.

Dan,

You'll miss me when I'm gone after all we've been through.

Dan,

I'm done

Truth,

"Bill seems to be completely unaware of the many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many things that government does that are far more complicated than tracking voting-stuff like social security, banking transfers, health records, birth certificates, INCREDIBLY complex tax issues, etc. etc. etc."

And they make you show source documents in person or scan source documents via special apps on your phone.

One verification system, they made me hold my id next to my face see both at same time.

In other words you won't just put source documents in the mail.

Truth,

Maybe people should be able to vote on their free Obamaphone.

Truth,

Get an absentee ballot if you qualify.

Or maybe there should be a voting van going uo and down the streets.

People woukd still complain because they have to put their clothes on and go outside.

Truth,

"Money is not the same thing as a ballot"

Ballots are the cash of democracy.

Dan,

"If I didn't know better, I'd swear you don't want "certain" people to vote."

Why am I not surprised?

You seem to imagine all sorts of things written down.

Laura,

"Someone shoot me and get it over with."

At least read my post first.

It takes time to write some things.

Dan,

"That method is the easiest way to suppress votes: construction, speed traps, reduced bus services, long lines'

A 3 week traffic jam?

You're overlooking implementing early voting.

If a city or state isn't providing the opportunity to vote, that should be reported.

Sy,

"A ballot has my identifying information on it. They can look up if I voted. They can verify my ballot counted.'

Let's say a plane crashed with a shipment of ballots.

You're saying the onus is on you to initiate verification that your ballot was recorded so they will send a replacement?

Exactly how long will they wait before they will mail you a replacement to insure your ballot is indeed missing? I doubt it would be immediate. Plus, do you even have time to do this if the jet crashed close to election day.

How about the people who don't even know they need to check if their ballot was recorded? How many votes will be lost? So, how many people now didn't vote.

We're looking at a massive system of necessary checks and balances revolving around millions of uncounted ballots.

If the burden is on the voter to make sure they voted, I guarantee there will be a LOT of people whose vote will be lost and not counted. Most people will assume everything worked as planned.

My experience with accounting systems, I've learned the less human involvement handling source documents the better.

A better idea is mark a ballot, hand to someone with a scanner who reads it and there you have it. A lot of physical handling and moving through a system that is laborious and subject to all the possibilities of it being lost requiring all sorts of verification processes doesn't make sense considering the alternative. Less labor, less checks and balances and more accurate.

You'll never convince me the risk of mailed ballots isn't higher than in person scanned ballots. Early voting insures most people have time to get a vote counted.

The right to vote is one of the greatest privileges in a civil democracy. It's the government's duty to ensure that this system is not just sound and secure, but also trusted that all votes were counted

Truth,

The care you would take with cash should be allied to ballots.

Would you stick cash in an envelope and mail it to a bank?

Dan,

There are numerous ways ballots could be lost or destroyed.

As more people use mail-in ballots, the risk increases.

Voting in person where the ballot is scanned right there is the best solution.

Early voting should be provided for some precincts.

Laura,

Direct it at Dan.

He brought it up.

Dan,

Undocumented people. "death penalty"? A little mellow dramatic aren't we?

Yea...not a good situation for them and their families. My heart goes out to them.

I recommend they start making plans instead of waiting to be apprehended.

Ballots. Time and again...my primary focus on voting and ballets has been human error or mishaps. Way too easy to occur. Moving uncounted ballots around in the millions is a disaster waiting to happen.

And fraud occurs, too. There's always some who figure out how to cheat the system and are willing to do it.

Jpw,

"We understand you just fine. You don't seem to be happy with the conclusions people reach about you."

I see things as fluid. Americans have the ability to vote solutions into power for the problems of the day.

Trump came into power because he was the solution needed at the time.

So long as elections are run honestly and accurately, the will of the people will decide the solution.

If America ever faces a genuine threat of tyranny, we'll change course with our votes.

That's my overview of things and one of the reasons I seem a little obsessed with elections and reducing opportunities for human error or cheating.

Jpw,

"Unless you want to be mistaken for an authoritarianism enabler"

If people aren't capable of understanding what I write....I can't help that.

Anyone who reads my posts and thinks I am an "authoritarianism enabler", that means they're misinterpreting what I wrote or just seeing what they want to see.

Clown,

Conspiracies?

I don't tend to listen to those either.

Too many people sound like Eeyore, the donkey, in Winnie-the-Pooh.

"Oooooooooh noooooooo, now I have to worry about that, too"

Some people just can't be happy.

Jpw,

"75 million voters don't get to narrowly elect someone to eviscerate the constitution because they think something is urgent."

I'm guessing on the "urgent" part but you gotta admit, moss isnt growing under his a feet.

The border has been successfully closed within a year.

I don't have a strong opinion on deportation. I understand the importance of finding the trouble makers, and I hope a fast track method for people who meet basic requirements for citizenship can be established.

Otherwise....well....I'm glad to be far away from it. I avoid heart wrenching videos they show for ratings.

It's messy but someone had to quit kicking the problem down the road.

Dan,

In Biden's defense, those flights were probably signed by autopen, while he was getting briefed on what he "signed" yesterday.

I'm in the middle of a project.

I'm done here (probably)