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Showing Original Post only (View all)I think it's time to severely limit absentee ballot voting [View all]
to:
people in a care facility (long term rehab center/nursing home)
people with a valid medical reason (accompanied by a real note from a doctor..and then verified by registrar)
military
That should be IT...
The military ballots should be collected at the base and then ALL submitted so that they arrive BEFORE election day.
In fact ALL absentee ballots should be MAILED and delivered by USPS BEFORE election day.
Instead of anyone asking for and getting an absentee ballot...ALL states should have EARLY voting for the entire month of OCTOBER (or perhaps a different month if it's a special election in a different month)
Republicans have always led in absentee balloting (don't want to rub shoulders with election day riff-raff?)
If dems who now are in charge anywhere do not fix this problem, we truly are doomed to second class citizenship for a long time.
Republicans in charge exploit any and every opportunity to limit voters to only their favorites.
They purge indiscriminately, they move polling places, they make up phony rules for IDs, they intimidate voters, they lie about "voter fraud" when the real thing is GOP ELECTION FRAUD, they gerrymander relentlessly, they "accidentally" put wrong dates/times/locations ...and any other devious scheme they can come up with..