rfenst wrote:Thoughts on WHY?
The counting of the ballots is the issue I have with the results. There really should be no machines involved with this. Paper ballots and should be held for 10 years. The tabulation should be done the night of the election. No excuses. At all. Have an issue with a recount...you pay for dragging them all out and the qualified people needed to do it with YOUR money. That would shut a lot of complainers down right there.
Both sides have claimed cheating. There is a problem. After what Florida went through with the "Dangling chad" debacle where tabulators were manhandling the ballots to get either a desired read or void one we fixed it. Seeing grown people with magnifying glasses holding up ballots with a twit look on their face isn't something I ever want to see on the evening news again.
I do like the Election Day becoming a national holiday. That's a great start. Want to do early voting like we in Florida do, I don't really like it but 100's of thousands do. Just as long as they get counted. Personally, I'd end mailing out ballots to everyone. Exceptions to the that would be military stationed overseas, handicapped and like previously noted Emergency (police, fire and paramedics) personnel. In a lot of cases the voting booths are in fire stations. If it was a national holiday, there wouldn't be an excuse to not vote. If you didn't make it to the polling station...you're lazy and didn't want to.
I'd like to see REAL debates. Not the garbage we have now. Questions would be submitted by voters ahead of time and there wouldn't be time constraints to answering them. Point, counterpoint and rebuttal...all parties on the stage. Real Lincoln-Douglas style debating. I feel like both parties hide behind their messaging and a lot gets buried that would be exposed with that format. No, interrupting either. You don't need to, because you'd have all the time to readdress later without some smug talking head in a suit picking sides and what they've determined to be important. You would see the brain matter being worked in front of your face, but in the case of Pennsylvania that's not important to them.