Not The Monster We Need To Watch For

  

"OEOHFPPE" by Herr D on heromachine. He said no one ever believed a certain song.

[inserting chatbox into spreadsheet program to open communications with Herr D] You are overdue.

[startle reaction] Oh, you mean for a blog topic. Can you choose something easy for me to comment on?                                             The difficulties of mail-in ballots.

[laughter] Well, that's easy. There isn't any.      Explain.

You fill out a form. They send you a ballot. You mail it back.  Perhaps the difficulty is for them?

Uh. . . no? The IRS has a complete list of everyone who filed taxes. With addresses. Call me old-fashioned, but people should probably only GET to vote if they paid taxes or showed on paper why they don't have enough money to pay taxes. Examining categories--[.000000000042 seconds pass] There are other categories.

Uh . . . like?   Some show they can legally evade taxes through loopholes. Some are on parent's tax forms. Some are homeless. There is supposedly a separate issue of fraud increase.

Okay. Those uber-rich deadbeats give at least a mailing address, so they can still get a form by mail. Parents or guardians of college kids or other dependents can hand out ballots. That's not hard either. Homeless people? Some of them have PO boxes. Most of them are too poor to pay taxes. Some of them can get mail through various agencies or charitable organizations. There ARE people who handle that. And fraud increase?

Well, I don't think the military would stand by and allow the process to be too flawed. Deployed personnel have to vote by mail. Nobody wants veterans' votes not to count. They paid the biggest price for it. Anybody caught on voter fraud by mail gets tried for mail fraud AND voter fraud. It really just ups the ante against those criminal enough to try it. That do it?      Thank you.