How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they’d be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.
I don’t give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people’s lives for the next decade plus.
I know for a fact it wouldn’t cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.
Overseas voters exist. We still have to file taxes every year, can’t invest in a lot of things in retirement plans (look up PFICs), and generally are fucked by the IRS by laws presumably meant to keep the rich from hiding money. There is no way I could pay the thousands of dollars to fly to the states and back to vote in “my state” (in which I haven’t lived in 10 years, but the US system is a trainwreck).
For sure. I’m not sure if you’re commenting on the wrong comment or not, I’m all for absentee/mail in ballots and I don’t think anything in my commend suggests otherwise.
How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they’d be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.
I don’t give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people’s lives for the next decade plus.
I know for a fact it wouldn’t cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.
Overseas voters exist. We still have to file taxes every year, can’t invest in a lot of things in retirement plans (look up PFICs), and generally are fucked by the IRS by laws presumably meant to keep the rich from hiding money. There is no way I could pay the thousands of dollars to fly to the states and back to vote in “my state” (in which I haven’t lived in 10 years, but the US system is a trainwreck).
For sure. I’m not sure if you’re commenting on the wrong comment or not, I’m all for absentee/mail in ballots and I don’t think anything in my commend suggests otherwise.
I took “for us to go back to paper voting” to include somehow requiring overseas voters and did indeed wonder at the cost of it