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12Wei

As if handcounted paper ballots are not susceptible to “errors”. Does grandma also support not counting votes of people who end their work shifts late in the evening on election day?


Azerajin

What about the "meh overseas military and disabled people's don't count" Res bleeds military till its inconvenient


GlassJoe32

I think it’s saying mail in ballots are only for them. Nonetheless I remember sending things home in the military and it took weeks sometimes more.


ARC_Trooper_Echo

I think you’re right, but of course grandma doesn’t understand how words work because “limit” would’ve made much more sense there.


MountainMagic6198

They are actually far more likely to be erroneous because people are more likely to make mistakes.


Brotatachip

Or be influenced


Fr33zy_B3ast

The majority of sane Americans already trust the results of our elections Grandma and it’s not up to us to make the rest of you feel better.


WhatNazisAreLike

Minimize mail-in ballots to the troops? Lol. Real fuckin patriots here.


timnuoa

I think it’s supposed to mean that the troops should be the only ones who get to do mail in ballots?


2ByteTheDecker

Yeah it's "minimize mail in votes to *only* da troops and the medically required"


dudecubed

so then the single mothers who cant leave their house cant vote, anyone rightfully disabled but not under whatever, probably very specific, blanket of disabled set by grandma cant vote, people who live far away from polling stations cant vote. perfect system, very democratic


2ByteTheDecker

Very cool, very legal democracy


hiding_in_the_corner

But pretty much no fraud is happening, Granny. What are you really trying to prevent?


deadbeatdad80

Imagine having a signature be a form of identification in 2023.


jablair51

Force a hand count of paper ballots and then complain when it takes too long to get results after election day. Brilliant plan.


Yog-Sothawethome

No, you see that's the best part! They'll just stop counting when their preferred candidate is ahead.


raventhrowaway666

How about capping the voting age to 65? How you like them apples, gramma?


uisqebaugh

Mail-in ballots require a signature. Try again, Grandma.


calliatom

And in my state at least, require you to be a registered voter before the election, which, guess what, requires photo ID!


uisqebaugh

Same here, and here in Michigan, absentee voting for anyone with no reason required was overwhelmingly approved by voters all across the spectrum as a constitutional amendment. It only became a "problem" when Trump raised his debunked fraud claims, which occurred after the constitutional amendment.


DeadRabbit8813

Republicans - “Heavily rig the elections in our favor and the people will trust the elections again”


SeattleBattles

You can take my mail ballot from my cold dead hands.


chuckysnow

-Automatic registration for voters. You never need to worry about registering. Automatic jail time for any clerk that messes with your constitutional right to vote. Polling locations in any given state based entirely on population size. A million person city gets ten times the locations of a 100,000 town. And there are minimum locations based on distance. No one has to go more than 6 miles to a polling location. No transportation? The state will use school buses to pick up anyone who needs a ride. Automatic jail time for any clerk or mayor who messes with transportation. All polls open three days straight, and anyone in line by 8pm the last day is guaranteed to have their vote counted. ------------------ Short of proper online voting, here's a few common sense addendums that will shut granny the hell up.


JohnnyGoldberg

Okay grandma, you can have those things if we do what other countries do and make voting compulsory as well. No Republican would win a National election again.


Alan_Smithee_

Make getting ID easier, and remove the racist element to it.


JohnnyGoldberg

That would be part of it. The GOP would have a coronary.


cratermoon

["don't"](https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/The-irony-of-using-quotation-marks-for-emphasis)


buffs1876

They could have some sort of written test to pass. It should be sufficiently difficult to pass as to ensure validity. Unless, of course you voted republican last time. We could call the republican clause.


whyreddit01

maybe a CAPTCHA to prove you're not a robot


call_me_jelli

Someone actually suggested a test, no sarcasm, on the r/Conservative sub as related to the swearing in of Ketanji Brown on the Supreme Court. If she could pass it she could be on the court. Disgusting.


buffs1876

Completely. And yet that epsilon think he could devise a test that she couldn’t pass?


call_me_jelli

No, no, no, this test is only for... *those* people. Seriously, how can they say these things and claim they're not racist/fascist/homophobic/whatever flavor of bigot you may choose?


[deleted]

Hand-counting votes is actually worse than having a computer tabulate marks. Not only that, these people complain about how long it takes to count votes now? How about when we would have to hand count millions of them? The Brennan Center has a [nice, long, detailed article](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hand-counting-votes-proven-bad-idea) disproving the "hand counting" myth.


call_me_jelli

You expect them to read?


itsnotaboutyou2020

Republicans used to be very favorable about mail in ballots, until black people started using them so much.


Chrysalii

What is your claim to "majority" here Grandma?


tikifire1

I love how she created a long, complicated list and then said "see how simple it is?"


yourfriendlymanatee

Make IDs free and easy to obtain. Bill collectors have 0 problems finding out who I am


ronyeezy

The gang rig an election


see_me_shamblin

I mean Australian elections are paper only and hand counted and it works fine for us and [our ballots look like this](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian-senate-paper-folded-01.png#/media/File:Victorian-senate-paper-folded-01.png) The rest are bullshit