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Posted By: Moritz55, 11/10/2022 10:55:44 AM

What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country -- other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate? During the COVID-19 lockdowns, American elections radically changed to mail-in and early voting. They did so in a wild variety of state-by-state ways. Add ranked voting and a required majority margin to the mess and the result is that once cherished Election Day balloting becomes increasingly irrelevant. Election Night also no longer exists. Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of different ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Highlander 11/10/2022 11:05:55 AM (No. 1329823)
It will require a dictatorial style mandate to reverse our election processes back to the original format. The states are responsible for what we have now. The reversal would have to be federally imposed. Blue states with their crappy voting should not be allowed to turn in their results.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/10/2022 11:10:21 AM (No. 1329832)
Time for an AUDIT to ferret out the Fraudulent Mail In Ballots AND a forensic analysis of the Voting Machines that shows the Voting machines/Tabulators are rigged to switch votes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: felixcat 11/10/2022 11:46:20 AM (No. 1329862)
Days, sometimes weeks, to count all the ballots in some states and yet talking heads on Fox are so quick to call a race before the polls even close. That should be illegal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Bur Oak 11/10/2022 12:10:04 PM (No. 1329898)
If you think the last two years have been bad, just wait for the next two.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bighambone 11/10/2022 1:01:25 PM (No. 1329946)
In other words the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat political propaganda worked on enough of the low information to stupid US electorate to ensure that the Democrats still hold the political power in DC when it comes down to the “nut-cutting” and with assistance from the RINOS if necessary. When it comes to the Republican opposition to abortion, it appears that a lot more than half the country actually supports abortion becoming an acceptable medical procedure with about a third of the country against making any form of abortion available and legal. The issue of abortion has been politicized and has impacted on US elections now for a couple of decades. It is clear that most women in the USA, along with most young voters in general, support some degree of abortion access, especially if a pregnancy is believed to adversely affect the health of the expectant mother. When you get down to the bottom line with young voters, their primary thought is that they want to be able to “do it” with whoever they choose on their own terms, and if the young lady gets pregnant because of that for her to have the choice to either have an abortion or carry the pregnancy to term. Those attitudes are not going to change, and because of that the Republicans keep loosing a big percentage of young voters in every election. So if the Republicans want to win future elections, they are going to have to compromise on the issue of abortion. Since the issue of abortion has now become a primary winning leftist Democrat election issue you can bet that the Democrats are not going to want to remove abortion off the table as a future election issue.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Starboard_side 11/10/2022 1:42:21 PM (No. 1329975)
I suggest the Registrar of Voters declare how many people are registered to vote in each City at the cut-off date for candidates to submit application for office. This would give everyone a number that's viable, and active. All ballots should be numbered too. This could help resolve the sticky problem of any "additional" ballots being printed. I recommend all ballots be sent to eligible voters, and they are either mailed-in, or they are brought in to a voting center where they already filled in, then scanned to ensure they are recorded to show that voter cast a ballot with the corresponding number associated with it. THEN, it's scanned into the system to tally the votes. Need to find common sense reforms to remove the prospects for fraud and shenanigans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Geoman 11/10/2022 4:11:13 PM (No. 1330103)
Taking the power to establish voting processes away from states would require a Constitutional Amendment, and that's unlikely to pass given the near even split between left and right.
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