Early voting is like showing your cards to your competition in a poker game
Plus other news and views regarding our elections
Early voting is being pushed by political parties, candidates, and election officials in the name of “convenience.” Why? For years we were able to show up on election day and we revered that day. It was a special occasion, a privilege. Since 2020, COVID set the precedent of voting many weeks prior to the election either by mail, drop boxes, or early voting centers. The paradigm changed. Election officials now prefer weeks of elections where ballots are pouring in with little oversight and questionable chain of custody. Do voters really want to sacrifice the security of their ballot for convenience? Are we really getting that lazy and impatient about our process of selecting the people who represent us? Read more.
Only citizens should vote in out elections
Currently our laws state that upon registration the applicant must sign an oath affirming their citizenship. There is no proof of citizenship required and no proof of ID required for those 65 and older. This should be addressed to ensure that only eligible qualified electors vote. Every ineligible voter cancels out one of our eligible votes. Voter ID should be verified and documented any time there is a registration or re-registration. Read more.
Let’s keep elections simple small and local
Vote centers mix ballots from multiple precincts making recounts tougher to execute and creating longer drives for voters. Plus, early voting has the counterintuitive effect of reducing voter turnout.
Ideally, we should have small precincts with no more than 1,500 registered voters. (Currently, over 900 precincts exceed that with the largest being over 6,200.) If there is a 65% turnout that would result in 975 ballots to be counted. Even if you had to hand-count these ballots it would take about 3 1/4 hours to count with 3 teams of 3 or 4 people which is doable in one night. Local small precincts also enable us to better know our neighbors and verify their legitimacy. Minimizing absentees also reduces fake registrants.
Did you know that our elections that were traditionally held and counted at the precinct level are now controlled by corporations, and the state and federal government?
RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee calls on all Republican officeholders to defend the historic practice of geographically-defined and assigned precinct, ward and localized polling places for means of balloting and tabulating paper ballots by geographic unit;
RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee hereby opposes any and all efforts for states to unreasonably expand time periods for early or vote-by-mail that makes ballot counting procedures intentionally unmanageable or incapable to complete expeditiously following the conclusion of an election on election day;
Problem: Centralized voting centers obscure results, depress turnout; centralization of power has the potential for corruption.
Solution: Abolish early voting and early voting centers and return to one day of precinct level voting limiting registrations to no more than 1500 electors. Return control back to the local level.
Laura sat down with Dave Hurt from Free Mind Podcast to discuss Election Integrity and the Future of America. Watch here.
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