
What would it take to make right wingers think elections are fair?


Verified registering to vote, rather than using a utility bill, making sure those who are registering are legal citizens and can do.
Not them signing a statement saying they are legal to do so, a background check on person registering to vote. Similar to the background checks my state has on gun purchases... no one here can buy a gun without a background check and passing it.
Voter ID background checks that almost must pass to say a person is who they say they are AND they can legally vote as a citizen.
As far as I am concerned, a good detailed background check could serve both purposes, prove someone is who they say they are to register to vote and at the same time, be used to buy a gun without having to pay for a background check on each gun purchase too.
Plus since we have to show ID to buy a gun, they have to show ID to vote after registered to prove who they are.
Otherwise someone could walk in with someone else's information and vote pretending to be them, as it currently stands... assuming they know the others information.
A online portal later that people can log in to see how their vote was recorded would be optional, cause sometimes people wonder if it was recorded correctly. With totals, including #'s, like total number of votes total placed in a county, how they were broken down and where theirs fit in.
This could help to alleviate it when people say a county had more votes than people registered in it. By showing total registered compared to total population able to register and other various comparisons. How people are registered, by party, etc.
I hear this nonsense all the time. As a trained poll observer in the state of Georgia, I assure you no one can walk in and vote by showing a utility bill. In FACT, you can't even register to vote on the day of the election, you have to be pre-registered.
Each state has their own rules for pre and/or day of registrations. Each state gets to decide what ID is acceptable. Voter ID cards are not as simple as they sound in every situation, especially if you're a Native American living on a reservation, when that requirement can be intentionally used to work against you.
Not only that, but the incidence of voter fraud isn't even a blip on the statistical charts. Sure it's going to happen on occasion, and yes, dead people votes may show up. But the same people that the Repubs are screaming at to get voter ID's for are the very SAME people who haven't maintained an up to date list! Why will they do any better with ID's?
It's just gotten to the point where any race, especially a close one, that a Republican loses, is tainted or unfair. So far, there's been but one situation where a judge ordered a re-vote, and that had nothing to do suspected cheating.
@loveslongnails It was simply an answer as to what would make people think they are fair... if it won't happen, then people won't think they are real. It matters now how much fraud is happening but how much appears to be happening.
Some states do allow people to register to vote or vote with a utility bill.
Acceptable forms of ID to vote.
Alaska;
Official voter registration card
Driver's license
Birth certificate
Passport
Hunting or fishing license -- Unsure of if they check citizenship status is checked when getting a hunting/fishing license.
*Current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document with the voter’s name and address
Arizona;
Valid Arizona driver's license
Valid Arizona non-driver identification
Tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification
Valid U. S. federal, state or local government issued identification
*Utility bill dated within 90 days of the election
Bank or credit union statement dated within 90 days of the election -- Illegals or non residents can have a statement like this easy enough.
Valid Arizona vehicle registration -- Illegals or non residents can register a car.
Indian census card
Property tax statement
Vehicle insurance card -- Illegals or non residents can get car insurance
Recorder’s certificate
@loveslongnails
Several states allow that, but Georgia seems to be more sane on the matter as they do now allow utility bills there.
Georgia driver’s license, even if expired
ID card issued by the state of Georgia or the federal government
Free voter ID card issued by the state or county
U. S. passport
Valid employee ID card containing a photograph from any branch, department, agency, or entity of the U. S. Government, Georgia, or any county, municipality, board, authority or other entity of this state
Valid U. S. military identification card
Valid tribal photo ID
There is also some states, that allow people to get a State ID or Drivers license with a utility bill. Then that ID can be used to register to vote. Meaning they never had their citizenship status checked to make sure they could vote.
Two words:
VOTER I. D.!
What would it take to make right wingers think elections are fair? Them winning elections. If they consistently won elections, I guarantee we wouldn't hear about how unfair elections are. Like, we only hear about how unfair the electoral college is and gerrymandering when Democrats lose, and we hear about voter fraud only when Republicans lose. Lamenting about unfair elections is simply a means to an ends (changing the processes to give your side a better chance). Neither side will ever be satisfied as long as they lose elections
Them winning, obviously. Nothing else.
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You need a system of voting that is simple and transparent enough that it can be verified by most people.
That means:
1: Voter registration that verify an individuals is ONLY a legal resident of the community in which they are voting over. This means verifying Citizenship, place of residence, and that they are not soo registered in any other place in the USA.
2: Public forms that don't discriminate politically
3: In person voting with biometric or photo ID to verify the vote being cast is by the person to whom it is entitled.
These are not complicated requirements they are done around the world and are relatively straightforward and verifiable.
@oddbeme It was discussed quite extensively for decades as corrupt politicians continued to introduce more and more complex and compromising changes to the rules of voting.
I'm sorry whomever feeds you your information choose to inquire those discussions.
Perhaps you remember the echo chamber of the other side always pushing to "expand voting" and increase turnout. Well a lot of what they were doing to accomplish those "goals" was simply making the voting system less and less verifiable and thus trustworthy.
@slatyb Facebook and twitter claim to be public forms. If they were not public forms the companies would be directly liable for all the criminal activity they directly took part in CHOOSING to facilitating.
You are confusing the idea of private company with public form.
A public form is a form where the owner (regardless of whom) claims no control over what is said or whom can be involved, making it "open to the public".
A private forum such as a news paper by contrast claims & exercises control of what is and is not said & done and by whom. Thus the owner is responsible if they decide to allow criminal activity such as IP thief, or in many states organizing a criminal act.
@oddbeme
The more legislators make election fraud easier to commit and hide the less reason any reasonable person has to beleive the ballots counted represent anything approximating the will of the people.
So I am not sure what you are expecting of course it is going to get worse and more obvious. One day even you may not be able to deny the evidence that many elections in many states have little to do with the will of the people thereof.
Go look for yourself: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
Voter I. d
same day voting
paper ballots that are clear
us pen not pencil
Electronically scandal votes.
if you want to make voting day a national holiday I don’t think right winger would be against that.
They are in the right wing because they are stupid narcissists who can't see past their own small perspective.
The sort who would punch a child in the face, then cuss out the child for hurting their hand and the parents for child neglect. All to deflect from their responsibilities in the matter.
Go back to in person voting on election day. No more mail in balllots , ballot harvesting, ballot boxes in public places, smae day registration and all the other things democrats have implemented so they can chest.
@goaded the one that I saw dismissed a video of guys bringing in stacks of paper ballots after the polls closed. They claimed they could not tell if they were ballots or not. It would have been easy to identify who the guys were and drag them in and question them but they obviously did not really want to find the truth.
So many videos of voter fraud. Itv was so blatant, dems were making brag videos. California "accidently" cut off the signature line on mail in ballots and chanted "every vote counts" this included people's cats. Do you remember that b couple that posted video from their wedding reception in OK? They used a venue that was a polling station the day before. What did they find? A garbage bag filled with ballots. Every last one in that bag was a Trump vote.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../ "Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret
An outside firm’s work was never released publicly after researchers uncovered no evidence that the election had been rigged for Joe Biden"
@goaded I csn't remember which one this was. I think it was Georgia but not 100% sure. It was the local legislators that were holding the hearing and they showed the video on TV and to me it looked pretty obvious and then the officials told the woman that submitted the video that they could not tell exactly what were on all those pieces of paper. Then in ten seconds they ended the hearing and thinked the woman for coming forward sne that was the end of it. What did they think was on those pieces pf paper, a laundry list?
Can't you find the actual case? The people Trump hired to look into claims of fraud couldn't even find anything. Even Barr said there was no evidence of massive fraud. Georgia, if it was there you're thinking of, had Republicans running the election, don't you think they'd have done everything legal to help Trump win? (Not that any one state short of maybe California would have made a difference to the result.)
@goaded The whole hearing was on TV and I think it was in Georgia. I remember the woman who took the video sid she was not a Republican and was a poll worker for 20 years. She had a video of a white van the pulled in front of the polling place. Two guys got out carrying boxes of white paper that were the same size as ballots. I expected the board to make a big deal about it but they could not wait to dismiss the woman telling her they could not really tell when was on these pieces of paper. People are angry because nobody bothered to find the answer to this and many other instnces. What about the people tht pulled the boxes of ballots out from under the table and startled counting them after the polls closed and the press went home? Trump had the lead and by the time the box of ballots was counted, Trump was behind. Nobody ever got any answer about that one either and that was on video.
It is obvious that elections are no longer won on the campaign trail. They are won at the ballot box.
Was it any of the viral videos listed here? www.cbsnews.com/.../
@goaded No, this may have been the same white van though. The woman poll worker was going home after the polls closed. She saw a white van pull up and two guys get out and start delivering a couple of boxes of what can be described as unidentifiable pieces of paper that were approximately the same size as a paper ballot. She had the whole thing on video. Too bad she didn't get close enough to show exactly what was on those pieces of paper. She said she worked the polls for 20 years and never saw anything like this before which is why she got a video of it. The board looked like they just wanted to go home and have dinner. They just said it was impossible to see what they really were. It would have been pretty easy to track down those two guys and at least give people a little peace of mind
*Eliminate mail in voting with the only exception being offshore absentee ballots.
*Require all voters to display picture ID's.
*Eliminate "Motor Voter" registration.
*Eliminate early voting.
*Eliminate election day voter registration.
*All votes must be counted and reported by midnight local time.
That addresses most of their gripes but there's always new ways to cheat.
I don't care who it is. Even the squeaky clean Jim Jordan. Those things would help to restore confidence in the system.
They know elections are fair, they just don't like the results.
I normally think it is over the top BS, but what happened in Arizona does have me a bit suspicious. Massive number of issues at voting booths is overwhelmingly GOP areas. Might be legit, but sure looks iffy - just like the count in Florida in 2000, from what I've read.
These folks are not right-wingers. They are crazy wingers. And the only evidence they accept for fair elections is the evidence that they have won.
In person voting, on camera, the voter scans their id and feeds their own ballot into the machine themselves. No more anonymous voting. Everyone's vote is recorded on camera. Only citizens can vote. That'd be fair.
Trust in government, partisan vote counters, biased media and biased technology companies have reduced trust to near non-existent. It would take a restoration of trust which isn’t going to happen as everyone is so full of shi t.
I was shocked when he won, so was everyone else. It was very close so perhaps the Dems just didn’t get their math right. I thought Trump should have worked on transparency and tightening voting oversight in his first 2 years, he blew that chance. Was there vote theft? I don’t know and I doubt it but I actually find it could be plausible and I have no trust in the government and truly little confidence in the voting process.
I am saying there could be fraud but I am unsure as I haven’t seen concrete evidence. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I have seen reports of more than 100% of registered voters voting. Have have seen pictures of mail in votes dumped in dumpsters or in the woods by the Post Office. I could go on but you get it, there are a lot of issues that have been raised and I do not have confidence that they have been addressed, mitigated or explained. People are very partisan, partisans will at times cheat the system, I do not have confidence in my inept, corrupt, lazy, bureaucratic government to do what needs to be done. They can’t or more likely won’t even secure the F’ing border so I have no confidence in them fixing voting system.
requiring Voter ID
Registering to vote is done by a county election official in person at the License Bureau if needed
In person only voting for a 10 day period
Election judges from all parties going to places to help those that can't physically make it to a voting center
You guys should consider doing analog voting like some other Western countries.
Impossible to hack and you would get the election outcome sooner provided that you do it in a equally organised manner.
That's how it used to be done. That made it too hard to cheat, so along came Dominion voting machines. Guess who owns those!
It's not that hard to do secure digital voting. Touch screens to do the choices and view that it's correct, print it in human readable form as a second check, scan the printout to count and dump the printouts into sealed containers. You can check the count is valid by checking containers at random (an analogue die throw or similar), or all of them, and making sure the printouts match the counts.
@TrueConfection how do you know that made it too hard to cheat?
@TrueConfection So you don’t.
There is a difference between "no proof" of election fraud, which there has been proof, on both sides and changing rules to make fraud easier, then saying, "those are the rules".
Is it fraudulent to, let’s say, suppress information that could be damaging to a candidate until after the election?
@Juxtapose Oh, I guess you didn't watch the hearing that showed that Twitter decided on its own to suppress the laptop story for 24 hours without any input from the Biden campaign or anyone else, just the "experience of 2016, and by the very real Russian activities we saw play out that year".
In fact, the only government official who asked for a tweet to be removed was Trump for being called a "pussy ass bitch". #PussyAssBitch
The government being involved makes it criminal. But it’s irrelevant to the question I asked.
Seriously, do you not understand that POTUS demanding that a tweet be removed is illegal, whereas reporting tweets that violate terms of service isn't?
Or are you thinking about the classified documents that were found in Biden's possession? You know, like the ones found in Pence's. Not like the ones that Trump stole and lied about possessing, because the lying made that a case of obstuction of justice.
Not that simple a question, it rather depends on what the information is.
There's a rule in the DoJ that they don't release information about ongoing investigations within a few weeks of an election, for example. Unless, apparently, it's 2016.
What information in particular were you thinking of?
@goaded So you can't be intellectually honest. As long as we're on the same page with where you are. But yeah, let's say you're a tech company censoring a story about a presidential candidate's son who cataloged a whole host of crimes on a laptop he left behind at a repair shop while he was on a crack bender. Would you say that makes an unfair advantage for that candidate?
Oh, I can. Can you? You are talking about Hunter Biden's supposed laptop, then, which I addressed 22 hours ago. Here's what I said:
" @Juxtapose Oh, I guess you didn't watch the hearing that showed that Twitter decided on its own to suppress the laptop story for 24 hours without any input from the Biden campaign or anyone else, just the "experience of 2016, and by the very real Russian activities we saw play out that year".
In fact, the only government official who asked for a tweet to be removed was Trump for being called a "pussy ass bitch". #PussyAssBitch "
I said: "... Twitter decided on its own to suppress the laptop story for 24 hours without any input from the Biden campaign or anyone else, just the "experience of 2016, and by the very real Russian activities we saw play out that year".
In fact, the only government official who asked for a tweet to be removed was Trump for being called a "pussy ass bitch". #PussyAssBitch "
That's not an admission, that's a statement of fact. Twitter is not the government; they can choose what to publicize, or not, and the story looked very much like disinformation.
It's been two years now, and the most anyone's found is that Hunter was a junkie and may have tried to organise a meeting with his father, while Jared has absolutely been given $2 billion to "invest" by the Saudis, from which he gets to skim millions a week. Also, McConnell (in government) refused to make public the efforts by Russia on Trump's behalf in 2016, and Trump paid off a woman to hide his affair at the same time.
Keep putting words in my mouth, if you like, it doesn't make you right, it certainly doesn't show you're honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5cUrUEwnTU
For the third time: "... Twitter decided on its own to suppress the laptop story for 24 hours without any input from the Biden campaign or anyone else, just the "experience of 2016, and by the very real Russian activities we saw play out that year".
In fact, the only government official who asked for a tweet to be removed was Trump for being called a "pussy ass bitch". #PussyAssBitch"
Keep crying and lying about what I've said, if you like.
@goaded I never lied about what you said. You’re being a moron. All of your 2016 “russian interference” nonsense sounds like bullshit Hillary would spout, but it was found to be like 15,000 posts on far right websites. Nothing close to repressing a story from a major news outlet to protect a corrupt political candidate.
"@goaded I never lied about what you said."
How many times have you pretended that I agree with you that the 2020 election was fraudulent? Those were all lies.
Like you said, the story found its way onto a major news outlet (owned by Murdoch, natch), so what Twitter did (independently of the government and for just 24 hours) had practically no affect on the election, except to give people like you more to whinge about. Certainly you're happy to ignore McConnell refusing to inform the public of Russian interference (which was much greater than posts on far right websites: en.wikipedia.org/.../Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election ), or candidate Trump paying off Stormy Daniels, or PRESIDENT Trump demanding Twitter take down a post he didn't like.
@goaded You won’t answer the question, so I have to assume you’re a rational, intelligent person who would think that suppressing damaging information about a candidate before an election makes the election fraudulent. I mean, unless you think it isn’t fraudulent to suppress information about a candidate. Do you?
I have answered the question, repeatedly, and the answer is: maybe.
I gave examples of where "no" would be the correct answer (ongoing but incomplete investigations into a candidate around election time, apparent disinformation) and others where "yes" would be the correct answer (paying off a woman you had an affair with, hiding the fact of concerted foreign interference in the election).
You, on the other hand, don't seem to care that Fox News also refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop at the time, and are trying to pretend that Biden somehow used the power of the office he wasn't in to control Twitter, a private company.
You also don't care that Trump, while president (so representing the government), wanted Twitter (a private company) to remove a tweet that he didn't like because it called him a "pussy ass bitch". That was an actual case of attempted government censorship.
Do you understand how companies get to choose what to allow to be promoted on their platforms? Just like Fox News chose not to run the story. Twitter did nothing wrong. They're under no obligation to let people use their platform any way they want and they felt an obligation not to be used for disinformation.
And how were they supposed to know that the Guiliani-sourced story that conveniently came out just before the election wasn't disinformation? It reeked of it, which is why only one major media outlet went with the story.
If they'd had a few months to verify some details, it might have got more coverage. Also, the "100% factual" claim is debatable, people added things to "the laptop" dated after it had been handed in, it's likely more sophisticated actors added more. Even so, what do you think it proved?
@goaded It was not illegal in California. Try again. Funny I just read that now that heat is coming on Clapper for his bullshit letter about the laptop being "RuSsiAn DiSinForMaTion", he's backpedaling and saying Political lied about what he said.
twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1625204281140776963
You twats are a never-ending source of entertainment.
@goaded of course not you fucking moron. But that's beside the point. IT wasn't Russian disinformation, we know see that the people in our intelligence community who floated that idea were lying, we know that Twitter and other social media platforms prevented a legitimate newspaper's article about it from being spread on its platforms. All to make for a fraudulent election. You can deny facts, but that doesn't mean they're not facts.
@goaded It was proclaimed in and open court proceeding
dailyclout.io/.../
The source of this information is Betsy Combier who wrote an affidavit (see pdf below) in the Kane v. de Blasio case where she stated unvaccinated teachers were given a “problem code” label that was “then sent to the national databases at both the Federal Bureau of Investigation” (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
I've got receipts on them fucking up an investigation allowing little girls to continue to get molested, too. Before you get dizzy spinning that one, too.
www.npr.org/.../larry-nassar-fbi-gymnasts-justice-department
@goaded John Bursch stated in open court that unvaccinated teachers in New York City were flagged with problem codes in their personnel files, and when that occurred “their fingerprints are sent with that flag to the FBI and the New York Criminal Justice Services.”
Are you tired of being wrong, yet?
@goaded I never said they fingerprinted them, nor did Bursch. He said they were transmitted to the FBI. And the larger question is why the fuck is any info going to the FBI about teachers who don't want the clot shot? Are you tired of being a dumbass, yet? I mean, dude, you've embarrassed yourself with every moronic statement and spin you tried to make. Smarter men would cut their losses.
What has this to do with elections? I'll play, though.
Don't you think it's funny that Fox News didn't confirm the claim? Note the "reportedly" in the title. Not to mention the use of alleged in "concerned about the alleged overreach". Looks to me like Fox News thinks it's bullshit too. Bet you a dollar it will turn out to be false.
www.foxnews.com/.../fingerprints-unvaccinated-nyc-teachers-reportedly-sent-fbi-problem-codes-invasion-privacy
@Juxtapose No, it doesn’t bother him. To him no amount of fascism is too much to satisfy his mass formation psychosis. But since he keeps bringing up Fox News, he must watch it religiously.
@Juxtapose And thinks the word “reportedly” (meaning it was reported) is the key word. He doesn’t realize that news outlets have to use words like this because they’re scared of being sued (you know, like CNN was by Nick Sandmann). It’s why they’ll use words like ‘allegedly’ when reporting about crimes that are even caught on video.
Well, this is all fun, but for a start where and when do you think those fingerprints were supposedly collected? Are they collected for all teachers? Do you think the schools fingerprint teachers that they fire? Don't you think that sounds absurd?
I think it's far more likely that it's bullshit from a lawyer who's going to be disbarred soon. Let's come back to it in a week or two.
stop driving people to the poles who otherwise would be too lazy to go. these same people have no struggles getting to the liquor store. Imagine if republicans did this? the left would be going bananas
They cannot win fairly, and they are bad at election fraud so possibly nothing but winning in spite of these problems might satisfy them.
They know it is fair, they just can't accept being losers.
Does the left intentionally forget their history or do they actually forget it? You've been denying election results for damn near my lifetime. Quit with the self righteousness.
There are too many right wing media hounds telling the brainless that this election, or that election was/is/will be stolen.
look at the 2016 election. dems still cry foul 7 years later it's both sides
Katie Hobbs Is extremely mentally ill, she didn't win AZ lol
Was there any explanation about those extra briefcases they pulled out or why they were blocking up the windows in the counting rooms?
They were literally boarding up voting stations and throwing Republicans out. No evidence? 👍
The person in charge of the election not being in the election too.
Whenever they win, it's fair.
How about making ballot harvesting illegal?
They win convincingly
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