Paulie

Greetings! I'm Paulie from Chicagoland. I recently bought a couple GRMS handhelds and the license, so I can have some fun with the younger kid and spouse while we go walking around the neighborhood and across the parks. Also got some different size antennas to play with, so we can see how far we can go with barriers to LOS. We still end up texting via cell when out of range and to change channels. It's something to do with the old man that isn't gaming, can't be all bad right? lmao

I am not a professional scholar, but I do have an understanding the whole interstate travel doctrine. You are free to travel between the states, but not the right to the mode of travel, beyond your own ability of locomotion. We are moving beyond elections though, so let's return to the opening topic.

Sure, but driving is a privilege, and not everyone has a car or the privilege. Some states make getting an ID so laborious for poor, elderly, or homeless, they can't get that either. That one of our citizens is disenfranchised should be something we feel shame for, not too bad so sad for "those people", ya know? It's already against the law for non-citizens to vote. And the total number of non-citizens voting is generally rounded to zero percent; because it's closer to zero than to 1%. It's not really a concern.

An example of how elections have consequences. We could have a national data privacy law, similar to GDPR, which protects our information held in private hands; which is then asked for by the government circumventing the controls we have on direct federal collection of data on citizens. But there is too much money to be made on the data broker side, and those who have a corporate trough to eat from, are happy to throw sand in the gears then blame the machine for being bad, after they damaged it.

They just have your name tied to a national ID, that isn't a SSN.

You're not calling out your government assigned callsign at required intervals?

Resident College Students. Some states allow college ID to be a voter ID, some do not. A national ID would fix that problem.

Yes, the availability of places to vote has become much more of a struggle, without national standards. One example I can think of off the top of my head is Harris County TX (which includes Houston), which will have 108 fewer polling places in 2024 compared to 2022 (to around 700). In comparison, Cook County IL (which includes Chicago) will have north of 2600 election day polling places in 2024. I specifically compared these two counties because they are similar in size. If we compare these two state wide, the numbers are even more stark. Comparing Illinois to it's neighbors IN and WI, both have reduced the number of polling places. There is a commonality in these reductions, and it wasn't Da Rona.

You mean national ID? Because one of the problems with "voter id" is there is no standard for it, so we have a minimum 50+1 standards, and a maximum of the number of counties in a state, times 50 states. What one county/state in one state finds acceptable, others do not.

68,836,385 votes cast in the 1960 presidential election. 86,496,851 votes cast in the 1980 presidential election. 105,594,024 votes cast in the 2000 presidential election. 129,139,997 votes cast in the 2012 presidential election. 158,481,688 votes cast in the 2022 presidential election. Add in mail in ballots since Da Rona, in the last 50 years we doubled the number of votes to be counted. Also the margin on the wins, it triggers a lot of required recounts, which delays it more. Some offices are being decided by dozens of votes. Like most things, there is nuance. And a lot of false memories on how things were back in the day. I would never have trusted one of those mechanical calculator booth machines, too much like a slot machine to me; verifiable auditable paper ballots, without chads, "is the way."