@HerbertNewsam

You voted for the lying, narcissistic Orange Turd?

Yup, but not because i wanted to, i could have voted for hillary...but nada not another Clinton...i was and am hoping the orange turd will be a one termer. He turned out to be a worse turd but i knew he was a turd before i voted. I have never liked him nor have i ever watched anything he was involved with on tv. Of course i havent watched tv in the last 25 plus years. I disliked his father too, i remember the talks i had about his dad with some old mentors of mine in rural Nebraska no less. These guys watched the goings on in business and politics. Old Ed was always on about them.
Yup i voted for the turd...

@freedom41

Who are you talking about? The Orange Turd?

@LiterateHiker yes

Wait, the Georgia government wants to vote by mail? Does that include the governor who was previously the Secretary of State in charge of the very election he was running in?

@dkp93 I know I heard this, this morning on NPR. Georgia is mentioned in this report. [npr.org]

@JackPedigo That's a depressing article. I hadn't realized just how long it would take to implement nationwide voting by mail. I guess if Republicans drag their feet long enough, they won't need to make a decision. They can blame it on the companies that can't produce the materials fast enough.

@dkp93 Unfortunately, changes on this magnitude take time. Given the complexity, opposition and sheer numbers it won't be easy or quick. I was a poll worker for 5 years and one thing a lot of us didn't like was that many of the polling stations were in religious places, churches and religious meeting rooms. I suspect that's how it is in most states. With mail-in-voting the church places will lose some way of pushing their beliefs on non-members.

Winning, by any means possible, is the only thing that matters to these ignorant fools.

@jlynn37 Maybe so. I can't see how that would feel good.

I think that I would feel like Stephen King's "Carrie", falsely elected prom queen by a bunch of snakes...and just waiting for that bucket of blood to pour down on my head.

To many of these types, power is what feels good, the rest comes from power.

@Allamanda Read it! Or, really, just watch the movie - that's quicker and heck, you're quarantined anyway, right? Might as well fill a couple of hours with teen angst.

They have enough self esteem and self delusion built in so they are not concerned about having accurate elections. Besides, the people that would vote against them don't matter anyway so they really don't care what they think.

I wonder how that would work...?

Certainly it would be good to use less paper. But, I assume that there are still a fair number of people without reliable internet access, who would need paper ballots. But how do you know who to send ballots to?

Maybe on next year's ballot, there could also be a check-box to indicate that one would prefer to vote online in future elections?

My late husband worked in IT for the county. I wish I had paid more attention to his complaints about election time. (Even paper ballots require a lot of IT support, after all. Those ballots still have to be read and tabulated by something.) I wonder whether online voting would require more IT support, or less.

For a long time many polling stations were in religious places (mine was at a YMCA auditorium. People started to protest that so things started to change and then the state went by mail. As a volunteer for 5 years I saw a lot of stupid things people did when voting. It would be interesting to see how many mail-in votes are rejected because of stupid mistakes.

@AmyTheBruce we still have polling places, just not a lot of them. We should have more than one way to cast our votes. Hell, the reason federal elections are held early November is so that harvests were in and winter weather- which made travel to polling places difficult before cars - hadn't set in yet so voting was as easy as possible.

Why aren't our constitutional "original intent" republicans all over this?

I appreciate the concern for using too much paper and resources, but would it really be a waste if we elect more progressive candidates who actually give a damn about the environment?

The amount of paper wasted is micro miniscule compared to sales and marketing "junk mail". The USPS has literally become a trash redistribution service. The few good things they do should be lauded.

@dkp93 no it wouldnt be a waste and its already been shown to do that. I think electronic voting would enable us to elect more progressive candidates in total by getting more young people to vote.

The harder it is to vote the worse it is for democracy.