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Botany

(70,479 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:45 AM Mar 2020

Election Reforms:

Election Reforms:

Paper Ballots
Longer windows of time to allow for voting
Mail in ballots and on line voting
Make sure all legit votes are counted
Get rid of caucuses
Presidential Elections .... 6 months beginning to end .... soup to nuts .... 2 1/2 years is just too damn long
Get rid of the electoral college
End Gerrymandering
No more voter I.D. laws .... nobody is voting twice
Get rid of interstate cross check
Get rid of electronic voting machines
Severe Penalties for working with foreign governments and or agents in our elections
Stop voter purges .... dead people don't vote .... Well Chicago "back in the day" but let's not talk about that.
Get rid of Citizen's United ... get the dark money out of the system

In 2016 McConnell knew the fix was in ... see Merrick Garland And since Trump was illegally installed in 2016
McConnell has blocked all voting security measures and checks on foreign interference too. Pence, Ryan, McCarthy,
Steve Scalise, Sessions, Manafort, Parscale, Flynn, Gates, and the Trumps also all knew the fixes in.

BTW we have to win the 2020 elections by landslides in order to take out the republican "fudge factor."

And can we have this all done except for the voting by the end of April?

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Election Reforms: (Original Post) Botany Mar 2020 OP
Like your list, but I'd like to add that the voting day be moved to the weekend or be a holiday. lark Mar 2020 #1

lark

(23,081 posts)
1. Like your list, but I'd like to add that the voting day be moved to the weekend or be a holiday.
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 10:21 AM
Mar 2020

REally 3 changes - also mandatory number of machines per # of population over 18 so that machines aren't removed from Democratic areas causing prohibitive lines. No signature matching because these almost automatically disqualify the very elderly who signed the cards decades previous and whose signatures have changed.

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