REPUBLICANS in CONGRESS NOW FACE a TEST of their GOOD FAITH

• Absentee ballots shall be carried expeditiously and free of postage.
  
• Require the Attorney General to develop a state-based response system and hotline that provides information on voting.
  

1. Make election day a public holiday

2. Mandate at least 15 consecutive days of early voting for federal elections (include 2 weekends)

3. Ban partisan gerrymandering and use computer models.

4. Require voter ID with allowable alternatives (utility bill, etc.) to prove identity to vote

5. Automatic registration through DMV, with option to opt out.

6. Require states to promote access to voter registration and voting for persons with disabilities and older individuals.

7. Prohibit providing false information about elections to hinder or discourage voting and increases penalties for voter intimidation.

8. Require states to send absentee by mail ballots to eligible voters before an election if voter is not able to vote in person during early voting or election day due to eligible circumstance and allow civil penalty for failure.

9. Require the Election Assistance Commission to develop model training programs and award grants for training.

10.Require states to notify an individual, not later than 7 seven days before election, if his/her polling place has changed.

• Absentee ballots shall be carried expeditiously and free of postage.
  
• Require the Attorney General to develop a state-based response system and hotline that provides information on voting.
  

11. Allow for maintenance of voter rolls by utilizing information derived from state and federal documents.

12. Establish standards for election vendors based on cybersecurity concerns.

13. Allow provisional ballots to count for all eligible races regardless of precinct.

@oromagi

I don't really see any major flaws here - I actually think the plan's a good one - are there any bits here that you don't like or something you would want to add? 

• same day voter registration and registration correction
  
• online voter registration and registration correction
  
• the voter purging is a big one- essentially states with GOP Secretaries of State have been purging between Presidential elections- so if you voted in 2020 but don't vote in 2022, a Republican will look at your registration and make a judgement based on perceived race- if your name sound white enough you can stay but if your name sounds non-white, Republicans will probably toss you out and you will have to re-register before voting in 2024.  Voting purging overseen by George Bush's older brother in Florida in 2000 was the principle cause of  Bush's win and with that win 9/11,  the War in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, Katrina, etc.
  

• The purge system in Florida proceeded on the premise of guilty until proven innocent. In 1998, the Florida legislature enacted a statute that required the Division of Elections to contract with a private entity to purge its voter file of deceased persons, duplicate registrants, individuals declared mentally incompetent, and convicted felons without civil rights restoration, i.e., remove ineligible voter registrants from voter registration rolls. This purge process became known as list maintenance. Once on the list, the process places the burden on the eligible voter to justify remaining on the voter rolls. The ubiquitous errors and dearth of effective controls in the state’s list maintenance system resulted in the exclusion of voters lawfully entitled and properly registered to vote.
  
• African American voters were placed on purge lists more often and more erroneously than Hispanic or white voters. For instance, in the state’s largest county, Miami-Dade, more than 65 percent of the names on the purge list were African Americans, who represented only 20.4 percent of the population. Hispanics were 57.4 percent of the population, but only 16.6 percent of the purge list; whites were 77.6 percent of the population but 17.6 percent of those purged.
  

Just noticed number 5

 Number 5 is stupid also. We don't need more apathetic voters. Only ugh people who give. Fuck about policy should vote

@oromagi

1. Make election day a public holiday

I do not see the need for this, it wouldn't help many of the people who struggle the most to vote. People who get off for federal holidays are public employees, like workers at schools, banks, and government jobs where they do not usually work late hours and have paid time off, and those people usually have transportation to voting sites. What happens when schools are off, is parents can't find childcare for their kids sometimes making it even harder to vote. 

3. Ban partisan gerrymandering and use computer models.

I do  not see how people can argue with this. 

A GOP congressman has implied that his party’s path to commanding a majority in the House of Representatives is through manipulating congressional districts, known as gerrymandering

Rep Ronny Jackson was speaking at a conservative conference hosted by Faith & Freedom Coalition on 18 June about the Republican party’s future and the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. It was caught on video as he seemed to hint that gerrymandering was a method his party was relying on to “get back the House”.

Democrats took control of the House in the 2018 midterms, and as Mr Jackson acknowledged they retained it in 2020, despite Republicans gaining a few seats, which therefore weakened the Democrats’ majority.

Gerrymandering is a method of drawing up voting districts in an effort to create a political advantageous geographic area.

The representative for Texas’ 13th Congressional District said, "We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country," he told the audience. "That alone should get us the majority back.”

4. Require voter ID with allowable alternatives (utility bill, etc.) to prove identity to vote

Minimal ID should be fine, but if I have a utility bill how can I prove my name is the same name on the bill? A lot of people who have no ID have no utilities. It's homeless people,  or maybe some teens without a license, but this looks like a funny compromise that doesn't serve much purpose. 

5. Automatic registration through DMV, with option to opt out.

I do not see a problem with this if it is through the DMV, because you're already  proving your identification there, and the opt out option is good. What about states where they want to give drivers licenses to non citizens?

7. Prohibit providing false information about elections to hinder or discourage voting and increases penalties for voter intimidation.

How would this be enforced?

9. Require the Election Assistance Commission to develop model training programs and award grants for training.

What is this?

12. Establish standards for election vendors based on cybersecurity concerns.

Very important! We need to have faith in our elections!

13. Allow provisional ballots to count for all eligible races regardless of precinct.

Will have to look more into this- depends on voting security and accessibility 

If I was in Senate, I would only sign this if point number 3 is removed. 

Just noticed number 5

 Number 5 is stupid also. We don't need more apathetic voters. Only ugh people who give. Fuck about policy should vote

I think Augustus caesar did a better job than any democratic institutions could with the hand he was dealt. 

Also like it or not, democracy invites undemocratic people to be a part of the process in determining how government should be ran. 

Democracy,the institution that brought you slavery, 9/11 and men getting their dicks cut off and being called heroes for it.

You know we developed a system that gets rid of voter ID and is completely secure but liberals reject it, because it would make fraud impossible.  It is based on blockchain technology 

Because republicans are better at it than democrats

Can you name an election where fraud has impacted an outcome, outside the 2020 presidential election

There was that congressional race in 2018 that had to be redone because of fraudulent votes… by the republicans. It’s the only case in recent memory, but why let facts get in the way?

I thought ballot harvesting was a right wing conspiracy? Fraud can't possibly happen said CNN.

I trust authority why don't you Komrade?

Did you know that Maryland and Illinois rank 1 and 3 respectively in the most gerrymandered districts?

According to who?

NC is every bit as bad as Maryland and probably worse, but more importantly, Republicans have the rest. Republicans will draw 187 congressional districts to Democrats 75 in large part due to large blue states who actually believe in drawing fair congressional districts.

It’s a conspiracy theory when you are a rrrracist Republican

I’m praying to god SCOTUS rules that ballot harvesting isn’t protected under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 not the 15th Amendment here in the next week or so.

It’s a conspiracy theory when you allege that it did happen without evidence, as Republicans are doing all across the country. You know what the 2018 race had? Evidence

It’s a conspiracy theory when you are a rrrracist Republican

Fixed that

DoubleR wants to make the entire nation of America like the disaster New York is through the totalitarian authority of the Federal government of elites in DC.