https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/08/24/fox-news-and-the-other-elephant-in-the-room-no-questions-about-election-integrity-n2162993
I took in the bulk of the Tucker interview of the Eminence Orange on X, and listened to Shapiro's summary of the Fox debate on the drive home today. Both were farce.
For all I groove on tech and have made a living doing it, I am a total election Luddite. I want
- hard copy
- first past the post
- Australian ballots
- filled out by registered voters
- on election day
- who are in an audited poll book
- with regularly audited results.
Certain, strictly scrutinized early voting may be reasonable.
Having a machine tally the paper ballots isn't unreasonable. I disagree with Vivek's ideas of raising the voting age. To my mind, if you're a taxpayer, you have a say.
This is a timeless, classic argument lacking a "correct" answer. Some fancy having competency tests to ensure that voters meet some knowledge threshold, to preclude Trumpian demagogues from getting too populist. This seems a cure worse than the mail-in-voting disease, to my mind.
Whatever reforms are undertaken, and mine would be in the direction of simplicity, the goals to balance are fairness and security. Nobody talks security, and that speaks volumes.