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2025-03-06 Home Front: Politix

Congressman Pete Sessions introduces bill banning universal mail-in voting, electronic voting machines, shortening early vote period to 3 DAYS

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 I am not a big fan of bills that don’t go anywhere.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-06 05:55|| 2025-03-06 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 But not limit counting to 3 days afterwards?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-06 06:47|| 2025-03-06 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 although this helps a lot

it will not be secure without additional controls on absentee voting, for example, in long term care facilities, there needs to be monitors to make sure the votes are not 'coached'

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-03-06 09:09|| 2025-03-06 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4
Other countries have no problems using this
100% trackable and auditable process.

But I just would add special, highly controlled water marked/RFID controlled ballot paper. Too the level that the US Treasury controls its paper.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-06 09:14|| 2025-03-06 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 This bill won't go anywhere mainly because elections is a state thing, each state decide how to conduct elections.

Banning electronic voting machine might hold up at the federal level though.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-03-06 09:19|| 2025-03-06 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 ^While the states are responsible for them, the feds still can set the standards.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-03-06 10:16|| 2025-03-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 ..specifically for the selection of Congress and the President.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-06 10:36|| 2025-03-06 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 ^
Yes the States carry out the election and their rules prevail unless there is a Federal statute or a constitutional provision, e.g., poll taxes were made illegal by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The law proposed by Sessions probably passes constitutional barriers at least for banning universal mail-in and electronic voting but I'm not sure about the other provisions.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-03-06 11:36|| 2025-03-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

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