Election Nov 2014: Last minute Ballot Replacement

[JayDee]

Now I would prefer to vote in person at the local elementary school but the days of helping slightly befuddled older ladies find my registration are gone.

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So I get home, and want to go drop my ballot off at the ballot box near the West Seattle Golf Course. It won’t take long to mark it up…but it does since mine was missing.

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I called King Co. elections and they give me a URL where you can vote, and then print out an official ballot, which I did. I missed today’s dropoff window, but *How Cool is That*? The URL is kingcounty.everyonecounts.com I bet those people talking about nonexistent voter fraud would love this — to make sure that all voters count…right? (Sorry HMC Rich, JD Seattle, I couldn’t help it).

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[Jd seattle]

I have no problem with everyone’s vote counting. As long as their still alive ;)

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[JayDee]

Well, I still had to darken circles, and sign my ballot, so hopefully it will be counted. Sure having a computer and a printer is still discriminatory, it beats driving to Renton and getting an official ballot — helps keep my productivity up. Vote early, vote often. As long as it is legal and you have a printer and computer.

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[JayDee]

Well, I still had to darken circles, and sign my ballot, so hopefully it will be counted. Sure having a computer and a printer is still discriminatory, it beats driving to Renton and getting an official ballot — helps keep my productivity up. Vote early, vote often. As long as it is legal and you have a printer and computer.

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[Jd seattle]

I don’t take a side on the voter ID thing. I think both sides arguments have some validity to them. I’d like to see the painfully obvious solution, help get these people some ID and call it a day.

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[dobro]

You have to show ID when you register to vote. I don’t see why you need to show it after that. And if anyone needs to see anything, why not a voter registration card? The voter ID laws that are currently being pushed a clearly aimed at voter suppression. Look up Justice Ginsburg’s scathing dissent on the Texas ID law.

Personally, I think everyone should be registered to vote at birth and have that right follow you around like a birth certificate. And tho I used to enjoy going to my local polling place on election day, I find I do like the vote-by-mail in our state. It’s nice to spend time on my ballot at home and I find I do more research on the issues. My one complaint is the ballots should be postage free.

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[JoB]

jd..

that dead people voting thing..

pretty much a myth..

just like that non-citizen voting thing…

people prevented from voting by draconian voter ID laws

not a myth

i know it’s pretty difficult for a guy to get this..

because absent adoption most guys have only one piece of documentation to secure a valid picture ID

but if you are a woman and you marry and you don’t keep your maiden name you automatically have at least two.

if you divorce and remarry.. you add two for every marriage.

now.. let’s compound that by being born before digitized records…

which includes a whole lot more people than you might think…

and add a natural disaster to the location of any of those paper records…

and to add insult to injury..

if you have lived in Texas for a while and are female and simply renew your license when it comes due..

your picture ID is not likely to match your voter ID exactly because the state of Texas probably required you to put your maiden name on your driver’s license in place of a middle name when you got your license.

do you see a pattern here in which voter ID requirements discriminates against women?

and especially discriminates against older and/or poorer women?

All that rhetoric sounds fine until you start looking at the details

then it isn’t so fine..

shall we go on to talk about young people denied the right to vote because they don’t drive and are away at school where obtaining the documentation for a state issued ID.. which they don’t likely qualify for because they are only a temporary resident.. is difficult at best?

and have you considered the actual cost of “just providing” all of those people with Ids?

to fix a pretty much non-existent problem?

this voter ID thing isn’t even fiscally responsible…

so tell me again why it’s a good idea..

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