America’s Fourth World Vote System Is a Global Embarrassment 

The entire world is laughing. 

“US election outcomes: When will we know who received?” the BBC questioned. 

AZCentral.com columnist Jon Gabriel wrote: “Associates in Hungary and Brazil requested how their total nations can depend votes in a number of hours, whereas it takes Arizona per week or longer.” 

As of early Friday afternoon, America’s voting system has devolved from a world beacon of democracy to a global punchline. A vivid neon signal warns: “Don’t do this at dwelling.” 

Mechanical breakdowns, baffling “poll dumps,” and inexplicable pauses in tabulation have buried the Arizona and Nevada senatorial and gubernatorial ends in sand. 

Alaska has dirty itself with a brand new, useless, and odious rank-choice-voting course of. Relatively than Tuesday’s prime vote-getter successful the Senate seat, Republicans Lisa Murkowski, Kelly Tshibaka, Buzz Kelley, and Democrat Patricia Chesboro are mired in a glacial redistribution of every shedding candidate’s votes to these ranked greater. This poll buffoonery might proceed for weeks. 

Within the U.S. Home, 32 seats stay uncalled. Republicans have but to safe their anticipated slim majority, because of dilatory vote counts and mail-in ballots that land extra slowly than falling autumn leaves. 

Who would be the subsequent mayor of Los Angeles? At this writing, 64 hours after polls closed, no one is aware of. Some 900,000 ballots await tabulation! In 10 California congressional contests, fewer than half of the ballots have been counted, per Politico. Within the Sixth District, solely 35 p.c of ballots have been tabulated! 

What America wants is a serious cleanup of our self-humiliating voting system. 

This could begin by excising the most cancers of early voting. 

In line with 2 U.S. Code § 7: “The Tuesday subsequent after the first Monday in November, in each even numbered 12 months, is established because the day for the election, in every of the States and Territories of the USA, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress.” 

What a part of that federal statute is unclear? 

Pennsylvanians started voting on Sept. 16—39 days (!) earlier than Democrat John Fetterman’s and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz’s sole debate on Oct. 25. For seven weeks and two days, individuals voted earlier than they noticed Fetterman’s efficiency and both had been appalled at his diminished, post-stroke psychological capability, or admired him merely for exhibiting up and standing there. No ballots ought to have been forged—for Fetterman or Oz—absent that info. 

Alas, some 600,000 Pennsylvanians already had voted earlier than they noticed Fetterman barely capable of specific himself, which was precisely what devious Democrats had in thoughts. Certainly, a few of them wished their ballots again — maybe sufficient to have elected Oz on Tuesday. 

Early voting started in Arizona on Oct. 12. That was 20 days earlier than Libertarian Get together nominee Marc Victor dropped out of the Senate race and endorsed Republican Blake Masters. Victor now has 43,542 votes. The early ones amongst them might need gone to Masters, which might propel him that a lot nearer to victory. 

In 2016, North Carolina despatched voters absentee ballots on Sept. 9, a full 17 days earlier than the primary Hillary Clinton vs. Donald J. Trump debate that Sept. 26. Voting earlier than even the primary of three debates for President of the USA and chief of the free world is SICK. 

Individuals ought to coalesce round an election system worthy of this nation: 

•Make Election Day a nationwide vacation. 

• Polls function for twenty-four hours—midnight to midnight Jap time—and open and shut concurrently nationwide. Voters shouldn’t be swayed by ends in states with earlier precinct closures. 

•Voters should present photograph ID. 

•Voter rolls have to be cleaned often and by the registration deadline: two weeks earlier than Election Day. 

• No extra mass mail-in ballots 

• Restrict absentee ballots to the sick, infirm, and people who shall be— Think about!—absent on Election Day.  

• Solely grownup U.S. residents can vote. Zero ballots for overseas residents.  

These reforms would begin to repair America’s unintentionally hilarious vote system. 

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