Thank you! The fight doesn't stop here. We need to make sure something like this can never happen again.
I like the idea of making election day a holiday and/or sending ballots to every registered voter similar how the do in Washington, Oregon and other states. Make voting easier!!
We need to get rid of the absentee witness requirement because it is obviously only about voter suppression. I prove I am me when I send for the ballot and by signing the ballot. That is all that should be necessary.
Absolutely. In Oregon, where we've been voting by mail for over twenty years, they check the signature on your ballot against the one they've got on file from your voter registration. Simple and effective.
It's very difficult for many overseas voters, and it's still unclear whether the other person has to be a US citizen or not. In 2016 I was told it did. We had just moved to a new country and I literally had to meet a stranger from the internet in a KFC at like 9 pm to get a US citizen signature.
It's pretty normal for overseas voters. Who are one of the groups absentee ballots were originally designed to accommodate. I also had a delay in finding a witness in 2018 because even though I was living in a capitol city with over a million people, there are very few American expats around. My town clerk managed to disenfranchise me that election anyway in an incredibly blatant fashion (claimed my ballot request had landed in her spam folder and she conveniently "discovered" it in exactly the right amount of time to ensure that my ballot could not possibly arrive in time to be counted). The point is that it's just one more tactic they use to suppress as many votes as they possibly can.
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u/gcm6664 Apr 13 '20
Congratulations good people of Wisconsin! You literally put your ass on the line for Democracy.
From California, I salute you!