Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "" video.

  1. "We need to get adherents of election denialism on this podcast" Oh my, I would LOVE to see Steven Crowder or Kari Lake on here. How do you keep YouTube from censoring it though?
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  2. "What matters is the message coming out of political elites" Well, only insofar as political elites have so alienated themselves from regular Americans, that regular Americans don't trust these elites when they say, "Our elections are free and fair trust me bro and you're a racist if you think people should have an ID to vote".
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  3. "What are three things that can be done to bring back trust in elections?" "- Funding for local officials to run elections" (Hey, great idea! Handing extra money to people who are suspected of dishonesty! What could go wrong?) "- Funding for elite academics to research how to persuade people to trust elections" (Heck, I'll do it for free -- transparency, and more below...) Aaaaaand, that's just two things -- so let me provide some more: - Transparency, - integrity measures (like voter ID), - ending practices prone to abuse (absentee ballots, early voting, late vote counts, unattended dropboxes, unaudited voter rolls, ballot harvesting), - audits / hearings when there are questions, - resisting the urge to censor valid concerns, - actual prosecution of cases of fraud That'll do for a start.
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  4. "We might see politicians trying to game the system, color outside the lines" If anyone who brings up fraud gets shouted down as an "election denier", of COURSE this is going to give bad actors the idea that they can commit fraud and just join in the chorus of censorship. The best way to do that is to make our system TRANSPARENT, and the actually bring instances of voter fraud to TRIAL.
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  5. Fun stuff! I'm in no way prominent, but if you'll take into consideration the comments I've made here, you'll find a lot (or even, most) of the major concerns addressed. Oh, by the way, go back to paper ballots. It's too easy to screw things up with computers.
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  6. "We've deepened the number of people we vote on, down to school superintendents" And yet, most of the rules and regulations Americans have to follow daily (and can be deprived of liberty and property for NOT following, without any recourse to the courts) are written by unelected bureaucrats.
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  7. "I feel that we're doing a good job" - Lots of feeling, here "We have to go beyond what the facts are, and worry about what impression we're making" - We'd be happy with well-audited, transparent facts... "We need to end the practice of counting absentee votes after election day" - AGREED! Look, guys, the problem here was the fact that weird stuff happened in 2020. We need real, live court hearings about it, without any of the technicalities all the cases were dismissed on. This lack of transparency is what is causing all the mistrust. The demonizing of skepticism has to stop, and the hearings have to start.
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  8. "Voting is how public sentiment gets translated into public policy" Except, every single one of those policies seems to be written by someone with a Master's degree or higher. They don't seem to ever write down anything that the University class doesn't like. In fact, what they write is the elite sentiment -- not the public sentiment. This is how you get Trump.
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  9. "The free and fair right to vote underpins virtually all of our institutions" This is staggeringly inaccurate, in the face of the massive unelected Federal, State, and local bureaucracies. We can vote out a dogcatcher, sure, but we can't vote out Anthony Fauci.
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  10. "The right to vote doesn't appear in the Constitution" Article IV, Section 4: *The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government*, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. Presumably "a Republican Form of Government" includes voting -- although the dictionary is a major battlefield in the culture war, these days.
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  11. "There's almost nothing we can do to counter the large megaphones that political elites have" Nonsense. You can hold public hearings, under oath, to address each of the election issues people have brought up -- voters registered at addresses that do not exist, dropbox stuffing, late-night ballot dumps with 99.2% of the votes to one party, etc. You say that there are ALWAYS cases of fraud? Find them and prosecute them publicly. If you stop saying "shut up, election denier" and stop pressuring social media to censor valid concerns, that's something you can do to enhance trust, too. Don't censor concerns. Patiently and transparently address them, providing evidence, even the ones you think are outlandish. Restoring faith in our elections is WORTH IT, although your inaction gives the impression you don't think so.
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  12. "Once the mistrust in elections becomes bipartisan, it's going to be difficult to regain confidence" Ask Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams whether there's bipartisan consensus on election skepticism...
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