Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "WSOCTV9" channel.

@linguaphile42 Every poll worker should be heavily instructed to look at name, date of birth and address. It should be stressed that checking all 3 is as close to mandatory as it gets. If that's already being done, it's laziness on the poll workers part. If this isn't being stressed, it's either laziness or ineptitude on the part of those who are looking after how voting is done. This shouldn't happen.
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@laurakrajnikburick2731 Every poll worker should be heavily instructed to look at name, date of birth and address. It should be stressed that checking all 3 is as close to mandatory as it gets. If that's already being done, it's laziness on the poll workers part. If this isn't being stressed, it's either laziness or ineptitude on the part of those who are looking after how voting is done. This shouldn't happen. Also, this has NOTHING to do with MAGA. This could affect BOTH parties. If you think that doing things the correct way is the MAGA way, then you should be voting MAGA. Why would you support the party who would excuse doing things the incorrect way? My last name isn't a very common name, yet I had to go all the way to the number 52 to get my YouTube handle because there were that many who have the same name as I do. There are over 38,000 James Smiths in the US. Duplicate names are extremely common and all poll workers should go through the procedure when checking IDs.
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@linguaphile42 He shouldn't have had to go through this process to be able to vote if the person who checked his ID checked the ENTIRE ID. It's not just the name. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US. However, not all of them have the same birth date and if 2 of them do, which is probable, it's highly unlikely that they live at the same address. This guy had to go jump through hoops just because the person who was trying to "help" didn't help at all. To "try" implies failure. As soon as the poll worker was told by the guy that he hadn't voted yet, he should have dug deeper into the identification to match them up. That poll worker either didn't do that or that information wasn't available to him and THAT'S a failure of the system. The American voting process is a disgrace, especially with the technology available today.
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@emmawillard1832 Years ago, my dog made onto the voting list. Don't ask me how. My wife had painted his name on his doghouse and that's the only way anyone could have gotten his name. It was weird. Fortunately, we live in a small town and when I went to vote, one of the poll workers asked me who "George" was. I knew most of them and apparently they'd already been asking who George was when my dad came in to vote. He had no idea. I told them that my dog was named "George" and as we were the only family with our last name in that VERY small town, it was easy for the poll workers to spot. Of course, my dog didn't vote. It was a stupid mistake made by election workers under a bad system. The American voting system is shot. Why don't we fix it so these things don't happen. NO WAY. We'd rather argue over the ridiculous things than just fix it so it doesn't happen. Foreigners on voting lists in Virginia. Problems in Lancaster, Penn. Likely charges in Colorado and Arizona. Allegations of ballot harvesting in Detroit. A man torching a drop box. Another trying to steal a drop box. None of this should be happening but let's not fix it. It's racist to show ID to vote. Accusations of fraud in 2000, 2004, 2016, 2020 and now it's already starting in 2024....but we don't need to fix it. Let's just keep it so our elections are disputed, FOREVER. Other countries are laughing at us. They don't have those problems. In a lot of countries you get a voting registration card that's specific to you, like a bank card. No card.....no vote. However, people would start crying in America because that's too difficult for some people. It's a joke.
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@Carryonandlaugh Where did I ever say ANYTHING about colour. I NEVER said that once. I think you're responding to the wrong comment.
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@bluebirdgramma6317 I was being facetious. Dig deep, pull out a quarter and buy yourself a sense of humour.
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@kathryncronkrite8027 When I was in college, I studied systems analysis and design. My favourite teacher used to say one thing. She said to always design your system to be idiot proof....to make it so that mistakes are as close to impossible as you can possibly can. That's how you design a great system. She was an extremely competent teacher and system designer. If it's not designed that way, it's a bad system and it's not her fault. It's the fault of whoever designed the system. If it is designed that way, she should have taken the simple steps to ensure that a mistake wasn't made. Check his ID with the information on his voting registration. Name, birth date and current address. If she didn't do that, it's a bad mistake and it will result in people not trusting the system. This isn't "catastrophic rhetoric". It's common sense.
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@barryharlan9850 The very first response to the original comment dealt with poll workers. I was responding to that and the conversation grew from there. However, in the case of the arrest warrant that the original comment was all about, it also demonstrated a complete lack of competence and how some people don't even care to do their job. It's typical of civil servants. A simple ID check would have saved everyone a lot of trouble but some people just don't seem to care.
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