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Posted By: Msquared112, 2/13/2023 10:54:08 AM

Now that the midterms are over, this is not the time to relax. Here is an early warning for the GOP: Today is the day you must begin securing 2024’s election. Not a year from now. Not six months from now. Not next week. Today. Make voting much, much harder for everyone. Here at American Thinker, several contributors listed in detail what must be done in order to keep 2022 from being stolen. It almost was. Not nearly enough was done by Americans to secure the midterms. We barely took the House and came this close > < to losing it. Why? Because we didn’t take Democrat cheating seriously enough…

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 2/13/2023 11:06:02 AM (No. 1401777)
Voting should take a bit of effort. You should have to prove who you are, at least minimally, and you should have to take a bit of time to travel to the voting place ON VOTING DAY to vote. It is good to have a bit of effort required because it knocks out the random voters, the non-thinking and relatively uncaring voters. If you haven't voted in a couple of years, you should get a postcard in the mail saying "If you don't show up and verify your address, we are going to assume that you have moved and cancel your voter registration." And if the registration is cancelled, because they didn't vote for several elections, and they show up and whine - too bad. Voters SHOULD have to make a bit of an effort, just to prove that they actually care.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: paral04 2/13/2023 11:09:54 AM (No. 1401782)
Voting is not any harder than getting your driver's license renewed. You have to prove you are eligible and then stand in that long line to have your picture taken. In voting you have to prove you are a registered voter and then stand in,line to cast your ballot. if this is too hard then you don't deserve to vote. In the latter case, you can request an Absentee Ballot. I you are to lazy to do the drill for voting then you shouldn't vote.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: PlayItAgain 2/13/2023 11:12:56 AM (No. 1401785)
By ignoring the law and refusing to provide chain of custody documentation for the ballots that were moved form the precinct locations to the central vote counting center, Katie Hobbs was able to break the law and count ballots instead of votes. And evidence demonstrates that she printed ballots. At that point, Hobbs simply anointed herself as governor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RUReadyY3K 2/13/2023 11:18:55 AM (No. 1401790)
GOP needs to adopt whatever legal means, tactics, strategy necessary to counter similar from Democrats. Sharp elbows and rough sacking, wherever permitted, are the only thing that will level the field.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: planetgeo 2/13/2023 11:38:41 AM (No. 1401822)
This is the single most important issue in the U.S. today. If we don't have voting integrity we will have permanently lost our country. And the recommendations made in this article are a great start, but they are not enough. Here are some additional recommendations I would make to further assure honest elections: 1) Not only require presentation of a voter ID, but also make it one that is a thoroughly vetted ID, such as the "Real ID" required now for air travel. I went through the process (birth certificate or passport, local residence verification, etc.) and though it was a pain, it was sufficiently thorough to verify citizenship and residency. Perfect for voting. And already required for air travel. If it's important enough for travel, it's important enough for voting. 2) Require that all ballots have unique ID numbers and that any ballots returned via mail or drop box are within the original officially printed sequence group, with no duplicates returned. 3) Create a national database of Voter Real IDs and associated names who cast a vote in any state, then cross-check for any potential duplicates (such as students who live in one state but go to school in another state, or persons who own homes in multiple states).
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Reply 6 - Posted by: starsNstripes 2/13/2023 12:01:07 PM (No. 1401849)
1. paper ballots only--no machines 2. legally mandate clean up of state voter rolls; every year minimum 3. only same day voting; no extended voting periods; winners declared by midnight 4. no mail in ballots; no drop boxes
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DaizeeMom63 2/13/2023 12:28:20 PM (No. 1401870)
You meant harder to steal right?...RIGHT?...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rama41 2/13/2023 1:05:20 PM (No. 1401891)
Unfortunately, in States like Pennsylvania, the fix is in. Thanks to Roberts, PA's Democrat supreme court made Covid changes permanent. Elections now last as long as it takes to certify Democrat victories, thanks to bottomless ballot boxes from Philly.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: seamusm 2/13/2023 1:11:04 PM (No. 1401898)
If one means making it harder to steal votes - then absolutely, YES! The last two cycles perfectly demonstrated that the Dems succeeded by making it TOO easy to vote - illegally.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: RayLRiv 2/13/2023 1:38:22 PM (No. 1401918)
Must Read
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 2/13/2023 1:41:54 PM (No. 1401923)
Democrat vote fraud is now part of the system. Big tech, the MSM and a compliant judiciary will continue to make it so. I'm sorry to tell you this, but the 2024 election is already lost, all three branches of government: House of Representatives/Senate, the Presidency, and increasingly an impartial judiciary will be dominated, through deceit, by the Democrat party. The late senator Joseph McCarthy, despite his excesses in the early 1950s, did make a profound and true statement. In a paraphrase of his words, '...the Democrat party is a bedfellow of the communists.'
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Msquared112 2/13/2023 2:27:45 PM (No. 1401954)
#6, yes, all those were in the column from AT.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/13/2023 2:35:55 PM (No. 1401964)
Just means they'll need fewer fake ballots to win
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Reply 14 - Posted by: YorkieMom 2/13/2023 3:27:17 PM (No. 1401992)
A must read.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 2/13/2023 3:46:57 PM (No. 1401999)
The individual voter has some responsiblity in getting himself/herself to the polling station. I try to vote in every election, usually make a point of walking to the polling station, and make a point again of presenting my driver's license whether I'm asked for it or not. What in the world is so difficult about that? How does any of it qualify as a barrier to voting, a burden or hardship?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: caljeepgirl 2/13/2023 6:10:05 PM (No. 1402108)
Of course! What #5 said: "This is the single most important issue in the U.S. today. If we don't have voting integrity we will have permanently lost our country." Every right carries a corresponding responsibility! Well, duh.....what a concept!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Kumoan 2/13/2023 9:05:36 PM (No. 1402213)
seems to me that a low effort way for republicans to vote effectively is to mail it in, and in view of the political leanings of most in the usps, be careful where you post it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: homefry 2/14/2023 7:10:33 AM (No. 1402377)
Voting should absolutely require a person to put forth some effort. I'd be alright with making election day a national holiday but that would be the only day to vote.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: JackBurton 2/15/2023 7:17:17 AM (No. 1403257)
I've purchased a gun. Had to have a background check showing I had no legal problems, was a citizen, was who I said I was (had adequate ID). I'm all in favor of that because one could do a lot of damage with a gun and it should only be purchaseable by a law abiding citizen. It took a little bit but was not problematic and, after all, it was worth it, right? Use those for voter registration.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: broken01 12/12/2023 12:01:05 PM (No. 1615737)
Since democrats have made teaching history racist few young voters know that actual Americans died in wars so that they and we could have the right to vote. Women in particular fought for their own right and got it in the summer of 1920. It's a right born in blood and sacrifice and should be done with a bit of effort. Make it one person one vote with an ID. Get rid of voting machines that are tied to the internet and use paper ballots. Get rid of mail in ballots and drop boxes should be put in dumpsters where they belong. As the only "mules" should be the four-legged kind found in barns. Lastly, it's Election DAY not weeks or months. All votes should be counted THE SAME DAY in all 50 states. We shouldn't have ballots for one candidate "found" days later in someone's warehouse. All with one name on them unsealed. Ridiculous. If you can't get off your duff and realize how important the right to vote in a free society is then I don't know what to tell you.
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