Saturday, August 1, 2020

To Vote or Not to be able to vote

You probably know who you want to vote for by now that we are less than 100 days to the big election. With every major event already cancelled in America due to disease everywhere, Trumpie wants to postpone the election even though in his ignorance he doesn't even know that he can't just wave his sharpie on a document and make that happen too but how can we vote safely?
America has 5 states that conduct elections entirely by mail. That sounds safe. They are Washington State, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Hawaii. Trump likes to say with no proof at all that voting by mail is fraudulent meanwhile in the last election that he won, 25% of all ballots were votes sent in by mail. He is already taking steps to ruin the American Postal Service since he fired the Postmaster General and hired a supporter who gave him $2 million dollars to his campaign. This guy already put in place procedures described as cost cutting efforts . Translation slowing down services and delivery at a time with this disease we should expect more of everything to be done by mail and not in person anywhere. 
So the rest of America needs to get serious now in order to have voting by mail be a good transition than voting in person. The states need to develop tracking systems so voters can see where their ballots are in the delivery stream, and find ways to review signatures and count ballots that reduce the number of rejected ballots. 
Just follow Colorado'[s lead who has been voting by mail since 2014 with no problems. Voting by mail should be considered as important as wearing a mask that also saves lives. As Colorado switched to vote-by-mail, it implemented the first intelligent ballot tracking program. Election officials use an intelligent mail bar code that is specific to that voter's envelope. It allows the voter to track the ballot at every step of the process similar to how you track a package only better because you have your very own personal bar code.
This is 2020. These are not complicated systems. You register to vote. Receive your very own mail in ballot. Return it either in the mail or a Ballot Drop Box and even vote in person with your bar coded ballot. Trump is trying to use his pandemic virus to suppress the vote. Instead our circumstances now should be increasing voter participation because voting by mail or ballot box is easier and more efficient. 
Congress passed $400 million dollars in Election Funding and they should be enforcing the States to implement this system NOW. DO WE HAVE TO PUT ON OUR PROTEST SHOES FOR THIS ISSUE TOO? UGH

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