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| 2022-08-16 |
| [American Thinker] If I can hear voter fraud alarm bells, why are there crickets from Republicans? Have they not learned their lesson? Democrats are also strangely silent about securing the vote, which means we should pay attention. God alone knows what fresh hell they will unleash to prevent a Red Wave in November and a Trump win in 2024. It seems that Republicans have little stomach for solutions that might actually ensure a fraud-free election. In fact, they seem to be ignoring the fraud issue as though 2020 never happened. Worse, they seem to utterly lack a cohesive conservative strategy for winning and governing. This is unforgivable. What do these people think they got elected for? The vote fraud issue cannot wait. Republicans, if they even have it in them, must stop being reactive instead of proactive. The genius king of proactivity, Governor Ron DeSantis, anticipates problems and their solutions before they get out of hand. Republicans need to take a page from his book and act today, not tomorrow when it's too late. Our vote is all we have left. If the November Red Wave is to happen without chaos, some things must happen now. Here is the 8-point short version of what must be done. (To see the long version, see the articles linked above.) One voting day: No votes counted after midnight. 1. One voting day. 2. Back to paper ballots. 3. No stopping or slowing of the vote count. To that end, there will be monitors at every polling station and enough counters to make it happen. 4. No mail-in ballots except for those who apply in advance, in writing, to get one. 5. Voter ID. 6. By personnel must mail their ballots three weeks before voting day to ensure that they are counted on time. 7. Polling places must be secured by law enforcement against violence or disruption. 8. Military personnel must mail their ballots three weeks before voting day to ensure that they are counted on time. There is a cultural aspect to why the left is so active regarding the vote and the right isn't. Just yesterday, Dan Bongino played an audio clip of a naïve young American Marxist saying he shouldn't have to work, that he should just be given stuff. Gimme stuff is the progressives' rallying cry, so they have no investment in getting that stuff by making their own lives better through purpose — e.g., raising families and working. They have nothing to preserve and protect, so they find their callow meaning in protesting, violence, and being part of a socialist movement. Working for the American dream is not in the progressive calculus. Progressives are successful at being unsuccessful, but that worldview makes them throw caution to the wind. This holds true with elections: the unemployed and unemployable left, never risk-averse, have infiltrated the vote-counting process, which is where elections matter. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 The proposed changes are very easy to write out, not at all easy to accomplish in reality. Any small movement toward one of these changes would be fought every inch of the way, by the DOJ to some low level federal judge issuing nationwide injunctions. At the very least, every Republican candidate should be asked where s/he stands on this strategy. I don't expect they would answer clearly even then. |
| Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 2022-08-16 20:04 |
| #3 It does amaze me that the Republicans didn't push an election integrity act saying exactly this. It’s happening, stepwise, at the state level in those states that are Republican-controlled. And as, in each election since 2000, ever more states and communities within states have become less Democrat and more Republican, and of the Republicans more strongly Trump/TEA Party/conservative/populist Republican, the necessary changes are spreading ever more broadly across the country. It started before the conservatization, if you will, of the federal judiciary at all levels as a result of the partnership between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, but accelerated thereafter. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-16 11:52 |
| #2 Purge the voter registration rolls after each presidential election. You have to re-register once every four years. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-08-16 10:53 |
| #1 It does amaze me that the Republicans didn't push an election integrity act saying exactly this. they could have gotten bipartisan support by saying it was to remove any questions and doubts to prevent conspiracy theories, riots, as well as election fraud. If you can't do it Federally because the way elections work put the same law into every statehouse in the nation. Get folks on the record voting against it and you have something, if it passes you actually have done a lot of good. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-08-16 10:24 |