<story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>Do you think with 10+ million undocumented immigrants - a not insignificant portion of the population, but not citizenry - that people should not be concerned about ensuring only valid citizens can vote?</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&amp;gt; The left doesn&amp;#x27;t support that, why?&lt;p&gt;Because it&amp;#x27;s a transparent attempt to reduce the ability of some groups of people to vote.  The right pushes for voter ID while simultaneously doing everything possible to reduce the availability of ID.&lt;p&gt;Put the Federal Election Commission in charge of voter ID, make the cards free and make it the mission of the FEC to track down and ensure every qualified citizen has one.  Then I support voter ID.</text></item><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>The right supports mail-in ballots with voter-id, and voter-id in general. The left doesn&amp;#x27;t support that, why?</text></item><item><author>blululu</author><text>Interestingly enough, a significant majority of Republican Voters (~65%) actually do support mail in ballots. The opposition largely stems from the RNC and senior party leadership.
In any case I am glad that the US senate is taking public health seriously, and I hope that they will take similar precautions in protecting their constituents by passing the Klobuchar-Wyden bill to allow mail in voting:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;natural-disaster-and-emergency-ballot-act-of-2020-one-pager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;natural-disaster-and-e...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&amp;#x27;s names. The bill&amp;#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&amp;#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &amp;quot;presence&amp;quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&amp;#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] correction: it&amp;#x27;s not a bill, either, it&amp;#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re absolutely right. There&amp;#x27;s a vast potential for very real problems.&lt;p&gt;When those problems manifest, we should deal with them. To try to address problems that don&amp;#x27;t actually exist is absurd overregulation and government overreach. It certainly is wasteful to expend resources on solving problems that don&amp;#x27;t need solving because they don&amp;#x27;t exist, isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;Is there evidence of voter fraud by undocumented migrants that suggests we have a problem and should act?</text></comment>
<story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>Do you think with 10+ million undocumented immigrants - a not insignificant portion of the population, but not citizenry - that people should not be concerned about ensuring only valid citizens can vote?</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&amp;gt; The left doesn&amp;#x27;t support that, why?&lt;p&gt;Because it&amp;#x27;s a transparent attempt to reduce the ability of some groups of people to vote.  The right pushes for voter ID while simultaneously doing everything possible to reduce the availability of ID.&lt;p&gt;Put the Federal Election Commission in charge of voter ID, make the cards free and make it the mission of the FEC to track down and ensure every qualified citizen has one.  Then I support voter ID.</text></item><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>The right supports mail-in ballots with voter-id, and voter-id in general. The left doesn&amp;#x27;t support that, why?</text></item><item><author>blululu</author><text>Interestingly enough, a significant majority of Republican Voters (~65%) actually do support mail in ballots. The opposition largely stems from the RNC and senior party leadership.
In any case I am glad that the US senate is taking public health seriously, and I hope that they will take similar precautions in protecting their constituents by passing the Klobuchar-Wyden bill to allow mail in voting:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;natural-disaster-and-emergency-ballot-act-of-2020-one-pager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;natural-disaster-and-e...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&amp;#x27;s names. The bill&amp;#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&amp;#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &amp;quot;presence&amp;quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&amp;#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] correction: it&amp;#x27;s not a bill, either, it&amp;#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>12xo</author><text>Please cite any study that validates this ridiculous claim.&lt;p&gt;Have you ever voted? Are you even registered to vote? Reading this makes me think you have not and have never... Registration requires verification, address, name, etc. You dont just show up and cast your vote.&lt;p&gt;The problem is in many rural and poor communities. Many people do not have a birth certificate, many do not have a DL and believe it or not, it costs money and requires significant travel for many people to get these things.&lt;p&gt;You must live in or near a large city, be from a wealthy family and have never been outside of your geo-bubble. Most of this country is rural. Some people have to travel 100&amp;#x27;s of miles to the nearest government agency. But you knew that, right?</text></comment>