Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "'Solution in search of a problem': Smerconish looks at Georgia election law" video.

  1.  @supergogeta247  Where? Most states have their DMVs issue the IDs. Most DMVs are out in the sticks, and don't have any bus service to them. That means if you don't have a car, it's hard to get an ID.
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  2. I've got a better solution. Do as we did two decades ago, in Oregon. Require proof of citizenship to register, then send a ballot to every registered voter. Then let them mail them in, or put them in an official drop box. Then you have clean voter rolls, and little to no fraud, like we do.
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  3. If voting was done only by mail, there would be no lines at all. We went all vote by mail two decades ago, in Oregon, and it has worked really well. Since you can just return your ballot by mail, there is no ballot harvesting, and we have the cleanest voter rolls in the country.
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  4.  @James_Knott  What is the complexion of your neighborhood? It is well known, that in order to suppress black voter turnout, many southern voting districts supply an insufficient number of voting machines to polling places in black neighborhoods. I always thought people were being overly testy, when they complained of white privilege, but you prove me wrong. I'm the same age as you, and have lived in 'nice' neighborhoods and ones where everyone around is darker than I am. And I noticed that it was much quicker voting, when I live in a nice neighborhood. Of course, my state went all vote-by-mail two decades ago, and now the niceness of one's neighborhood does not affect one's voting experience.
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  5. I had to, eons ago, when I in my 20s and lived in Van Nuys. The poll workers decide how strict they want to be. I was pregnant, rushing home from work to vote before the polls closed, and they just waved their friends in, ahead of me, and made me stop and show ID. That is the problem with ID, it's always arbitrary.
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  6.  @Jake-li7ih  Every four years? There are major elections every two years. And there are always the elections for local candidates, and all the propositions. Of course, if you state votes only by mail, like mine does, having to vote every other month is not onerous.
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  7.  @mathman43  The Hong Kong flu did not kill as many people as Covid has. And if the schools had not closed down, there would have been many more deaths from Covid. If you want to consider a flu epidemic that comes close to being as deadly, you have to go back to the Spanish flu, and schools did shut down then. As to attending service during the Blitz, bombs are not contagious, you point is meaningless. The real problem today is stupid people, who scoff at those better educated than they are. And you are a case in point.
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  8. No, every person should prove that they are a citizen when they register to vote. Once they are registered, they shouldn't have to prove it over and over. Not unless the government starts issuing everyone a free ID card, without requiring them to find transport, out to a DMV in the boonies, to get it.
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  9. Unless they were promoting candidates, or propositions, what is the problem? Encouraging people to vote is fine, encouraging to vote a particular way is illegal.
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  10. Don't you vote on Saturday? Why not make it Sunday instead, so people don't have to break Shabbat.
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  11. They send the broken voting machines to black areas.
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