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BREAKING: Apartheid tool has thoughts on how voting ought to work.

@ct_bergstrom A very American POV, this. In my country IDs are required because unscrupulous parties will send ghost/fake votes or people will vote multiple times to bump up a certain politician. In some countries it is VERY necessary and needed.

Ps: no more @ please 😂 I have enough info about US voting systems to last a lifetime now. I apologise for my hasty fingers and wish for a good election for you folks - peace ✌️

@ct_bergstrom point taken. Why are ids such a bad idea, however, especially since there are bad actors around?

@liztai Others have addressed at ID issue well. I'm speaking largely about voting by mail. In the US, people don't get time off work to vote and in minoritized communities, voters may face lines with wait times upward of four hours.

@ct_bergstrom @liztai

Curious European here, how is voting by mail secured to prevent people from voting multiple times or to prevent them voting "on behalf" of family members?

@Archivist @ct_bergstrom @liztai In Washington, they mail you a ballot, you vote, sign it, mail back, and they verify your signature

@iagox86 @ct_bergstrom @liztai

How do they even verify your signature? That seems like a very easy to bypass security measure. Also it would not be constitutional in my country as voting must be anonymous here

@liztai @Archivist @iagox86 @ct_bergstrom you have one registered voter for one registered vote. If another vote is attributed to the same name it becomes evident immediately and an investigation would ensue. D T told his supporters to double vote as the Dems would be doing it and when many tried after first mail voting was told they couldn’t vote again in person. No one succeeded in voting twice.

@liztai @Archivist @iagox86 @ct_bergstrom I'm actually one of the people who do signature verification for my county's election. Each person verifying has regular audits during the process and cameras are all over the floor for the general public to watch every step of vote tabulation. There are also independent observers from political parties and non-partisan groups wandering around watching us.
Check out King County Elections for more details.