Bill has nothing but lies.

Ballots should be EASIER to process, not harder.

Easily identifiable, even from across the room.
Possible destinations VERY LIMITED.
Time factor obvious.
Already scaled.
2024 ... almost 100 million ballots handled.

Bill has nothing but lies.

I agree with barring soda, candy, and energy drinks, just like liquor, cigarettes, etc.

But while eliminating fast food places is ideal, it's certain to add A LOT of meal-making time for the parent(s), and extra time is something they may not have a lot of these days.

Or food prep skills, either.

"The systems currently in use were not designed to operate efficiently under substantially greater volume and stress."

That's a lie.

"I'm done."

Another lie, unfortunately.

" Scalability has to be designed into the system."

It's already there, dumfuq. Why are you pretending it's not?

" That is my opinion."

You're giving your opinion because you have no proof, and can't deal with the facts.

Heck, you can't even admit how many legal votes you'd be willing to suppress to enact your system.

" We need stronger authentication built into a system that is scalable."

You can't find ACTUAL PROBLEMS in the current system. Everything on your wishlist is already addressed ... except for the part where you want to dictate to others what THEY do.

You're not interested in preventing the illegal vote, you're interested in suppressing the LEGAL vote.

" with stronger built-in voter authentication."

Every state with UMB has a way the legal voter to confirm their legal vote.

YOU KEEP MAKING UP DOOMSDAY PROBLEMS WITH ZERO PROOF.

And you've yet to propose ANYTHING that suppresses less legal votes than thwarts illegal ones.

FFS, you're not even willing to admit how many legal votes you'd be willing to suppress.

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I haven't blamed ANY PARTY for our education shortcomings. I've merely pointed out ECD is underfunded, and thought you could relate to it happening in your own state.

But since you mentioned it, for the record, Sam Brownback is a Republican, who finally told other Republicans to override his veto and reinstate the income tax on pass-thrus that Republicans had originally authored.

"Dan is from CA if I recall"

You don't.

"we tried everything else"

Except for fully funding pre-natal care and pre-K development.

In Kansas, Sam Brownback even raided the Early Childhood Development monies to cover his historical blunder of not taxing pass-throughs.

IIRC, Koch Industries had 8 of the 10 most lucrative tax breaks. KU Basketball Coach Bill Self was one of those ten as well.

"USPS says uniquely serialized Intelligent Mail barcodes can facilitate tracking individual ballots to and from individual voters. "

Each ballot is already serialized and tracked. Watermarked as well.

And what percentage of accuracy are you expecting on the registry of allowed voters? Because 99.99% means you'd suppress more votes in your home state of Virginia IN ONE CYCLE than of all the voter fraud convictions in VA in the last 20 years.

"But the requested ballot gives the system a documented, voter-initiated starting point before the ballot even enters the mail system."

Except the voter DID request the ballot ... back when they and the rest of their fellow legal voters brought UMB into law in their state.

Again ... why should you be able to void what millions of residents chose? ESPECIALLY when you can't find vote fraud in your own home state. One fraudulent vote PER DECADE is not a threat to the integrity of the election.

How many thousands of legal votes would you be willing to suppress in order to thwart ONE VOTE PER DECADE?

"Other systems send ballots automatically to active registered voters without that individual request step."

Because that's what the state and its voters decided.

Utah sends out UMB, as well as Oregon and six other states.

Why should you be able to dictate what other states choose to do?

" If there are no limits on when ballots are due"

But there are.

No American court, ever, has demanded an unlimited window to count.

SuperSlurper can't post without misrepresenting the facts.

"Trump has said he would not use a nuclear weapon against Iran"

Trump also said we'd be getting a $5000 DOGE check, his 2016 campaign never met with Russians, Haitians were eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and he had no idea who paid Stormy Daniels.

Keep Slurping!

Serious question: How many legal votes would you be willing to suppress if it would guarantee avoiding TWO INSTANCES of voter fraud?

I've noticed ZERO slurpers have the guts to give a direct answer to my direct question.

"Russia Russia Russia""

The FBI was surveilling Russians, and members of Team Trump kept showing up, all during a time when Team Trump was lying to Americans about meeting with Russians.

The FBI was clearly aware of the serial lies.

Meanwhile, had Obama been meeting with surveilled Chinese while lying about it, Republicans' heads would've exploded if the FBI decided NOT to investigate.

"and probably affected what 1000 votes, 2000?"

Where is the accusation those folks voted? It's nowhere in the link you posted.

Are you posting without actually reading the link, AGAIN???

"Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, of Marina del Rey, California, 64, also known as "Anika," is charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote"

"Systemic fraud exists in the American system, its the only logical conclusion."

Your examples were Canvassers, folks unaffected by stricter voter ID rules.

"there was a 4 year investigation into Russia Russia Russia"

And the Rubio Report admitted Team Trump had over 100 meetings with Russia during 2016, all the while lying to Americans by claiming ZERO meetings. Republicans, led by Marco Rubio, concluded it was a "grave security threat".

Meanwhile, the FBI was surveilling Kislyak, and Jeff Sessions walked into the room. Morons want to pretend the FBI should've stopped at that point. Some are still carrying water, denying something Republicans ADMITTED.

"What exactly have I suggested that could be described as "cheating"?

Knowingly suppressing more votes in "certain" areas with reduced precincts (hours+ lines) in those areas, and lies about the efficacy of ballots.

When was the last time you had to wait 2+ hours in line to vote?

My last presidential vote took 11 minutes, including 4 to get from my car door to the booth and back, and 7 to wait in line and cast the actual ballot.

"Then the very second Nithya Raman got 1 vote over Pratt... THEY CALLED IT"

Bald-faced lie.

"Why not make elections as safe and secure as possible?"

We should. But we should also be realistic.

And it's the height of stupidity to believe thwarting two illegal votes at the expense of 2000 legal voters is good policy.

"of course that will be until when they are ALL counted"

What a riot.

Your answer is only to count until YOU'RE ahead...then stop. You even dissed LEGAL votes cast in a LEGAL manner.

Sounds like a sore loser's sour grapes.