Faith in our elections is already at historic lows;
Let me have a pulpit for five years to tell everyone that you are something sinister. In five years, everyone including your friends will believe you are whatever I drilled into them for five years.
The average citizen doesn't even know how elections work - and yet they have an opinion on it AND NO SOLLUTIONS.
I don't see this changing anything. And as much as I love the notion of the SAVE Act, it's finally dawning on me what this really is.
Unconstitutional is what it is.
The SAVE Act will be for Republicans what abortion is for Democrats: something they can saber-rattle about, but never do anything because it's too useful as a rallying cry. The LAST thing these ass-hats want to do is start fixing things because that's how you lose important platforms during election years.
Jazz, I'm impressed. You're not wrong here. I mean, that isn't the biggest problem but yes, this is going to be the way to undercut any time these whining babies lose elections, "Well, it was stolen." It's going to be like when Auburn fans said the only reason Saban won six national championships was because "he was the only one paying players," which is funny when you remember the Cam Newton scandal.
For this reason alone, I think we can both accept the pre-ordained fate of this legislation. It isn't going anywhere, though I'd love to be wrong.
There's a bigger problem, and you can look at their arguments in Pennsylvania to see it.
The GOP didn't want votes counted EARLY, starting seven days before the election because - they said - "that will open it up to fraud."
They don't want them counted AFTER ELECTION DAY because - wait for it - that will open it up to fraud.
And they don't want to invest in more equipment that would allow all but the three-day grace period absentee ballots to be counted by midnight on election night because those machines could somehow be tampered with and "fraud."
Bear in mind that in 2000, it was the REPUBLICANS touting the seven-day period AFTER Election Day for absentee ballots, which dropped to three days in 2020 because President Perpetual First Menstrual Experience knew he was going to lose otherwise. And it was the Democrats who at the exact same time were saying, "Technicalities cannot disqualify under and overvotes in our four big counties in Florida but they CAN be used to disqualify those absentee ballots that run 70% Republican."
Our elections today are more secure than they were when Jefferson was elected and fraud was easier but the Felon-in-Chief has a cult of followers who would cut their privates off and hand him their wives for an hour if he told them.
