Amy Klobuchar: Nobody Needs to Choose Between Health and Voting Rights
The requirements for absentee voting are mostly clear-cut. They take into account the fact that the voter may not be able to vote in person. Justifications include active military service, being primarily responsible for a disabled family member, disabled but qualified to vote, etc.
Business operations, religious obligations, and emergency response appear to be other requirements. Whatever the justification, the voter has a legitimate reason for not being able to vote in person during election day.
Democrats want to extend this to all Americans. The justification? The current pandemic. Amy Klobuchar points to President Trump as someone that votes absentee. Not mentioned in her article is President Trump’s justification for voting absentee.
From DNYUZ:
It’s troubling that many states still insist on making it hard to mail in a ballot. Sixteen states require voters to provide an excuse to obtain an absentee ballot (though several have lifted that requirement for November); six states also require more than one witness, or a notary, to validate a mail-in ballot. Imagine trying to drum up witnesses – much less a notary – in the thick of a public health crisis. We need to do away with the hurdles and the back flips once and for all.
In addition to providing reforms and necessary funding to states to ensure safe voting by mail, our legislation would require every state to offer at least 20 days of early voting at polling locations. This is so important in a pandemic because it shrinks the lines at the polls. It’s critical to those Americans who have disabilities, need language assistance or don’t have easy access to mailboxes even in the best of times.
Reform won’t come without a cost. We are pushing for ample funding to help states immediately prepare for mail voting, in addition to the $400 million Congress has already approved for voting during the pandemic.
As we debate the next federal legislative relief package for Covid-19, here is what we know for sure: Failure to prepare for this pandemic has cost so much. Lives have been lost. Businesses large and small — representing lifetimes of hard work — now stand boarded up.
Yet there were so many signs it was coming.
November is coming too. We need make sure all of America doesn’t suffer what Wisconsin just did.
And if you want to know what it’s like to vote in a healthy, safe and secure way — from the comfort of your own home — just ask President Trump. He’s been doing it for years.
The rest of Amy Klobuchar’s article can be read here.
Embrace dangerous freedom or die.
There’s a reason that so many stipulations and requirements are placed on remote voting, and yes, protection from fraud is worth it.
Audit the vote, always and forever.
As I’ve commented before on this subject, I’ve already received several absentee ballot requests in the mailbox. One with my name as listed on my voter registration card and others with my name as it is on various direct mailing lists, ie FIRST, MI, Last, or Initials and last name. An ID is required to vote in Georgia and in my county that ID is checked by three different poll workers. We saw in the 2016 and the 2018 elections, not only here but in Florida, boxes of absentee ballots were found in back offices, car trunks, and closets after the polls were closed. The demonrats know how many votes they need to steal to not only take over the WH but also the HoR and the Senate. Be Aware…Be very Aware.
Eternal Vigilance.
Wet ballots and “same day” “registrations” here in CTland.
Can’t be bothered to add your name to the jury pool but you want to pick your leader?
Blow it out your ass.
https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20181106_wet_ballots_delay_tally_in_governors_race/
Only times I’ve voted absentee was when I was on a deployment.
No ID required in the PDRofMD, of course. Not that it makes a lot of difference beyond our local State Representative.
Me too, and it was years ago. And under state law, then, I had to have certification from higher that I was, in fact, overseas to get the ballot, and there was a blank place on the ballot itself certifying who I was; again signing off by higher.
As important as the ’16 and ’18 elections were (and the ’18 showed what they could steal) this upcoming election, IMHO, is the most important election in 160 years to the preservation of our Republic.
Agree, KOB. Here in the Republik of Whitmer, we got stuck with Whitmer and her acolytes mostly because of the Detroit-Bay City I-75 corridor, and the cities with at least one university in it. Whitmer carried 17 counties out of 83 in Michigan. I’m sure not a single college student voted at school and also at home, the dems have never been known for voter fraud and ballot box stuffing. And, yes, that’s sarcasm.
Washington is all vote by mail. We also have Motor/Voter registration. Get a drivers license and they ask if you want to register to vote. Say yes and at the same time you get on the list as being eligible for jury duty. Washington also gives drivers licenses to illegals/undocumented.
I’ve had jury duty 3 times and I mostly end up sitting for a week reading my book near the table where people come to report in to the clerk. What is odd is how many people called for jury duty report they are not citizens. Hmmm
So, you want to vote absentee?
Be sure to include your SSN, Tax Payer ID or the # off of your state issued ID on your ballot along with your signature that’s on file with the registrar so we can verify that you are in fact an eligible AND registered voter.
Problem solved.
Or is that racist?
A good start, but not sufficient. In some states (MD being one of them – at one point I lived in that People’s Republic for a few years), absolutely no proof of US citizenship is required when registering to vote.
How do they know you’re a US citizen? They ask you when you apply for a driver’s license – and take your word for it.
I used to be a firm opponent of a Federal national identity card. I’m not sure any more if I oppose it or not. I now sometimes think requiring one to vote in any Federal election – along with requiring proof of citizenship status to be provided prior to issue of said card – might be necessary.
Then I remember how the Federal government has screwed up most things they run, and I’m even more uncertain whether or not I want to go there.
Regarding the article: someone needs to remind litte Amy that life involves unavoidable risk. And the more important something is, the more risk it’s worth taking to obtain it.
The right to vote is precious. If someone isn’t willing to take a risk to vote, then they can simply stay home for all I care. And given how easy it is to get an absentee or by-mail ballot many places, I don’t see this as much of an issue anyway.
If you want to have a hope of having your absentee ballot counted, it helps what demographic you belong to.
In my twenty five years in the Navy i voted absentee every election. But you’d be able to knock me over with a feather if any of those votes were counted.
And i was a NY resident so my votes didn’t matter anyway. At least now in Florida i have a chance of making a difference.
Ballot harvesting is another tactic the left wants to employ. When I was in Afghanistan we had a female soldier who collected all the mail-in ballots to supposedly mail them to the U.S. When her time was up and she left, discovered under her bunk was all the ballots that had voted for Republicans.
The easiest state I’ve been in to vote was Ohio
You registered in person at the DMV, and about six weeks prior to the election the election board mailed a card to you asking if you wanted a mail in ballot
If you said yes a week later the ballot arrived and you had two choices: mail it back or drop it off at the BoE
You could not vote in person if they mailed it.
The best you could do was get a provisional ballot and the BoE would look to make sure they did not have a mail in one. And next year you would not get a mail in question card.
As far as I know there were more problems with in person voting than mail in.
Might want to look at the Ohio section in the document I linked below, TWK. Virtually all of those seem to involve mail-in ballots.
Yes, voting by mail is “easier”. But it’s hardly without its problems – and one of those serious problems is duplicate and/or fraudulent voting.
Klobuchar is nuts. Always has been.
Apparently, Minnesota heard that Kaleefornya is the land of dumb and dumber and said “hold my beer, eh”…
Look, she represents the “Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party”.
Need we say more?
Minnesota and Iowa are both the strangest states in the USA by far.
“Minnesota and Iowa are both the strangest states in the USA by far”
Minnesota’s 38th Govenor put them in the running.
Can’t forget Ilhan Omar, the brother-marrying polygamist anti-Semite.
If you think about it, the other 48 states produce a bounty of morons and idiots for laughs and giggles, but the only state that approaches the absolute level of bat shit cray cray weirdness of MN and IA might be FL…but FL is in a distant position compared to the front runners here.
Dunno about that, Ret_25X. California comes by its informal “Granola State” nickname honestly – it has way more than its share of fruits, nuts, and flakes.
We all know the Democratic Party’s slogan: “Vote Early, and Vote Often”
When they lose race now, the new mantra is “Voter Suppression” which hasn’t happened since the Democrats controlled the South with their Jim Crow Laws, their Ku Klux Klan, and their “Segregation now & forever campaign”.
When one of there Dumb-o-crats says voter ID’s laws are racist, none of their media lackeys ask how. Is it racist to have an ID to fly? buy alcohol? buy cigarettes? open a bank account? drive a car? No. Even the most backwards-asses 3rd world undeveloped as hell country uses some form of ID to vote. So why does want one party not want it? Its so easy a blind man can see it…fraud. Nothing more than stealing the vote because the public can’t be trusted to make an ‘informed decision’ to back their candidates
See into the minds of liberals and how the demean blacks as unable to get ID’s…
I don’t understand the issue with ID at all, I need an ID to buy cold medicine at the local pharmacy needing ID to vote isn’t discriminatory it’s simply placing the value of your vote on roughly the same level of difficulty as treating your sinus congestions.
What is discriminatory is suggesting that poor people are too stupid or too lazy to figure out how to obtain a state issued ID card. That’s not only discriminatory it’s patronizing and disgusting as well.
If you truly believe voting matters then get off your ass and get an ID. Can’t get government benefits without one, can’t buy cold medicine without one, can’t do hardly anything without ID except decide who gets to represent you at the highest and lowest levels of government.
The other thing that would make voting easier for everyone is the declaration of election day as a national holiday.
I’m not opposed to mail in, but in person requires so little effort if you can’t achieve that you probably aren’t bright enough to vote anyhow.
Regarding public safety, wash your goddamn hands and wear a mask if you’re worried.
malo periculosam quam quietum servitium
You might want to glance through this, VOV. It could make you revisit that “I’m not opposed to mail in . . . ” voting stance – at least, other than via absentee ballot with a valid justification (out of district at time of election or physical inability to vote in person).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-voterfraudcases.pdf
Well over 1000 different individuals documented to have been engaged in voting fraud. And there’s no telling how many fraudulent votes were cast as a result; many cases involved multiple ballots and in a number of cases the full totals simply aren’t known.
That was crazy.
We can’t trust absentee ballots when facing a morally depraved opponent like the Dems.
For them, the end justifies the means, therefore it is impossible to find a common ground.
But we all knew this.
It clearly merits a more thorough investigation, as I said I’m not inherently opposed. If we discover we can’t alleviate the fraud then I agree it’s not a reasonable option, although the individual states are allowed to decide how they wish to vote in any election so should they choose mail in the control aspect is on those states to secure the voting.
I would prefer a national holiday to vote to be honest. That would alleviate much of the issue, and make it a true holiday where no businesses can be open at all. Start at 6am and run until 10pm that would allow those on odd shifts to have at least a four hour block to get somewhere to vote.
There would be no excuse then for anyone not to be able to appear in person and vote…
If one is too dumb to get a driver’s license or ID card, then that person is too dumb to vote.
The people that don’t want Photo ID cards to vote at polling places because “discrimination” are the same people that required Photo ID cards for admittance to the 2012 Democrat National Convention.
Indeed you are correct, a sad reality on the state of affairs in the great big welcoming tent of the Democratic party…a larger misnomer for their tent could not have been supplied by a comedian.
This was to be my first absentee ballot. My son didn’t like driving me the block to the polling place since I’ve always walked. But after last fall’s fall, well I said, wth. Received the ballot 3 days after the election. First time since 79. Well, I guess I should say, I voted absentee in all of those elections I was AD as well. But, no more dammit. I’ll drag my arse there first.