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No doubt your president wants to limit it, but you have to understand most of the people in the west would see postal voting without proper documentation and sy
by 9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
No doubt your president wants to limit it, but you have to understand most of the people in the west would see postal voting without proper documentation and system that is verifiable is insanity and borderline corruption.
- sebazzz 6y agoTrue, in my country it is mostly forbidden. Essentially it is only allowed when living abroad and even then voting via the embassy is preferred. Why? Because when you and you alone go into the voting booth, take that red pencil, and tick the box, it is guaranteed you and you alone who casts that vote. You can only be allowed by two other people to vote for them. We also have no voting computers so maybe my country is just old fashioned. In any case, if something needs to chance in the USA it is far too late for that. The current elections cannot be allowed to be compromised so voting by mail should be facilitated.
- jorblumesea 6y agoFor some historical context, IDs cost money in most states and there's no national identification system. So if you implement voting ids, all it does is end up being voter suppression because generally the poor cannot afford to get a driver's license or cannot afford to drive therefore don't have a license. State Ids have a similar issue. Historically, voter ID laws have been associated with disenfranchisement.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoYou could make a sane argument in EU countries since getting documents and keeping them updated in every 8 years costs money here as well but no one would take that argument seriously here.
- jorblumesea 6y agoYeah but the EU or EU countries will just eat the costs for the populace. In the US, this is a contentious issue (as is every social program for the poor tbh).
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoDepends what you mean, usually there's a small 20-30 euro tax for documents.