How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they’d be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.
I don’t give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people’s lives for the next decade plus.
I know for a fact it wouldn’t cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.
Overseas voters exist. We still have to file taxes every year, can’t invest in a lot of things in retirement plans (look up PFICs), and generally are fucked by the IRS by laws presumably meant to keep the rich from hiding money. There is no way I could pay the thousands of dollars to fly to the states and back to vote in “my state” (in which I haven’t lived in 10 years, but the US system is a trainwreck).
When my parents die, I will renounce. I need to be able to get to them without issue in the event of emergency.
I hold two citizenships but live in a third country. If I were to get citizenship here (Japan) I would be forced to renounce both my existing citizenships.
I would not be a Japanrse citizen. They work to hard and end up killing themselves frequestly. Americans are even better off than the Japanese. I mean, until citizens start going to concentration camps…
For sure. I’m not sure if you’re commenting on the wrong comment or not, I’m all for absentee/mail in ballots and I don’t think anything in my commend suggests otherwise.
So the exact process seems to vary by state, but it generally boils down to:
some for of verification and registration for the year (my state requires this yearly and you are expected to initiate this as it does not happen automatically)
get an email or physical mail ballot (not all states allow email from what I gather)
fill out the ballot, various other forms, and send them to the state via physical mail
How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they’d be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.
I don’t give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people’s lives for the next decade plus.
I know for a fact it wouldn’t cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.
Overseas voters exist. We still have to file taxes every year, can’t invest in a lot of things in retirement plans (look up PFICs), and generally are fucked by the IRS by laws presumably meant to keep the rich from hiding money. There is no way I could pay the thousands of dollars to fly to the states and back to vote in “my state” (in which I haven’t lived in 10 years, but the US system is a trainwreck).
You can go renounce at embassy. Wtf gqve you not become citizen where you are? How fucking hard do they make this shit?
When my parents die, I will renounce. I need to be able to get to them without issue in the event of emergency.
I hold two citizenships but live in a third country. If I were to get citizenship here (Japan) I would be forced to renounce both my existing citizenships.
I would not be a Japanrse citizen. They work to hard and end up killing themselves frequestly. Americans are even better off than the Japanese. I mean, until citizens start going to concentration camps…
I’ve been in Japan a decade and you couldn’t pay me enough to live in the US. I have great work-life balance at my main job which is fully remote.
For sure. I’m not sure if you’re commenting on the wrong comment or not, I’m all for absentee/mail in ballots and I don’t think anything in my commend suggests otherwise.
I took “for us to go back to paper voting” to include somehow requiring overseas voters and did indeed wonder at the cost of it
How do oversees voters vote? I always just thought it’d be through the mail
It’s by mail.
So the exact process seems to vary by state, but it generally boils down to: