I dont think I feel comfortable with a church as a polling place.
I dont think I feel comfortable with a church as a polling place. Let's discount the fact that I'm an atheist and believe this is a gross violation of church and state, but let's consider all the Jewish people, the Muslims and others out there who don't want Jesus looking over their shoulder while they perform a specifically secular function.
I mean, is Jesus supposed to be guiding my hand to the most religious party/candidate?
+Basit Mustafa, maybe you can offer some advice?
Plus, the guy in line in front of me smells like he defacated himself.
And, the man in charge just told someone that if she had a mailed ballot she should just go home and fill it out. When she said she already did but failed to sign the affidavit, failed to fill it out properly and messed up her voting he said "That's okay, we can fix that."
So, its voter fraud to not have an ID on you to vote, but its not voter fraud to have a ballot mailed to you, not sign it or to FUBAR the ballot itself? I'm confused.
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On 11/4/14, Google+ (Jason ON) <****@**> wrote:
Thomas Jefferson believed the two should not meet, that the realm of the spiritual should stay with the spiritual and the realm of the secular should stay with the secular.
By having voting inside a church, under a great sign citing "Jesus is the answer" the state is violating that very core tenant of the separation clause. How can one reasonably be in that room and not know they are in a church or that some great imaginary sky father is looking over their shoulder, making sure they're voting in accordance with whatever religious ideology is represented?
Especially when a library was just a mile down the street?
As for voter fraud,
if a ballot is mailed to an address, there is no guarantee the person who's name is on the ballot is the one filling it out and returning it. It would be very easy for a dominant personality to collect them and vote their own preferences. If a signature on an affidavit is good enough for a mailed out ballot where there is no oversight, why isn't a signature on a ballot good enough for in-person voting? When in person, an ID is checked, verified and then a verbal confirmation of the data on the driver's license is checked; when a mail-in ballot is sent, there are no checks, just a signature that could be signed by anyone.