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Yeah, I can't believe that this candidate gets a pass* on saying such an outlandish thing!

* "Gets a pass" in this case means such immediate and forceful criticism from his own supporters such that he had to "clarify" his remarks within 24 hours of making them.

Yeah, I can't believe that this candidate gets a pass* on saying such an outlandish thing!

* "Gets a pass" in this case means such immediate and forceful criticism from his own supporters such that he had to "clarify" his remarks within 24 hours of making them.

My son remained on our voter rolls for several years.  His name was next to mine.  I mentioned it to them, but they are just volunteers of course and couldn't do anything about it.  Unless the voter rolls are "clean", you'd get quite a few dead people being sent ballots via mail.  And I routinely get mail for the folks who lived here before us.  I get mail for folks who live in different units routinely, 2-3 times a week.

And then there is intentional acts like hiding mail or getting bags of mail the day the ballots are sent out.  It wouldn't take much to manage that in BG states.

I think a LOT of safe guards would need to be devised before I, and many others, would trust a mail result.

Cleaning up voting rolls has become politically fraught.

I wondered how they are updated when someone dies who was registered.  I don't think anyone checks the death announcements.  They stay on the rolls, usually not voting, but still listed, for years.

Here is a study on states based on how easy or hard it is to vote.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/elj.2017.0478

This is not a left v. right dichotomy, policies widely vary on all sorts of factors.  For example, is there early voting, is it easy to vote by mail, is voter registration automatic, etc. etc.  We know there are examples of legislatures intentionally trying to prevent poeple from voting.  For example, in North Carolina they came up with a voter ID scheme where they studied what kinds of ID's white and black voters might use and then disqualified the ones black people use more.  That was illegal and was overturned, but in my view, any restriction which makes it more difficult to vote and isn't justified by something pretty substantial is an unacceptable restriction on voting.  Corruption is often the reason - instead of valuing the people, the people in charge value being in charge.