The Tweeter-in-Chief can’t resist sharing his opinions with the world. He really is a 12-year old boy in a 70-year old man’s body. As others have posted, days without being a national embarrassment? 0.
The only way this saga could get any more Florida is if the elections director sells the ballots for meth.
We need to make all the deadlines for official counts at least 4 weeks after the polls close.
We need a nationwide uniform voting system.
The ballots burned ? How inconvenient ! Can a judge order a new election ?
Unbelievable; “overheating” machines. Can voting be a lower priority in this country? Let’s just mandate that we should ride horses to our polling sites.
Florida, Florida, Florida, guess we’re not surprised.
Sounds like they should have bypassed machines and gone straight to hand counting with all the Rethug officials overseeing the process, of course.
Exactly…this different systems in different states idea is stupid. States rights are idiotic in this scenario. There should at least be a national standard that states must meet, even if they use different machines.
This is all a cover story. The voting machines set themselves on fire out of protest.
You will need a Constitutional amendment to accomplish that.
Not. Going. To. Happen.
Since we can now do this for drivers licenses it seems not unreasonable to say we can do it for voting.
My opinion is that big and lasting improvements will require state constitutional amendments that establish voting rights with language that would make it very difficult to engage in more than minor amounts of registration/voting suppression or minor amounts of partisan redistricting bias. The language should also make it clear that the the rights reflect a desire to achieve comprehensive registration, high voter participation, and truly representative, government.
Those rights could provide the leverage to get past much of the GOP opposition.
We already know a lot about how to resolve most of the problems we’ve experienced with voter registration, voting, and vote counting.
The 2002 Help America Vote Act established the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
In 2013, Obama established a bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA).
Together, the two commissions have studied, proposed, and supported implementation of many improvements that benefit voters (and prospective voters), election administrators, and an entire country that is heavily dependent upon keeping elections relatively free, fair, and secure.
But, to get sufficient improvement in place at a sufficient number of the 3000 counties that run US elections will take much more training, money, and political will than we’ve been able to apply to the problem.
The GOP has fought many of the changes. The GOP House has routinely tried to eliminate the already-miniscule e budget of the EAC, even though there is strong evidence that states and counties still need its services. The GOP Senate refused to confirm any appointments for a time and left EAC without a quorum for four years. GOP Secretaries of State complained of the mere existence of EAC and the PCEA, citing fears that commissions that had no Constitutional authority over them would become regulatory bodies. In other words, BS to cover the fact that the SsOS preferred to maintain the power to influence election outcomes.