In November of 2018, I wrote this:
Florida, Georgia and Arizona are the perfect examples for proposing an end to early voting, absentee ballots and voter ID and encouraging the upgrading of Election Day to a National Holiday with all voting taking place on that day. Over the past decade early voting, provisional ballots, absentee ballots have led the way in encouraging voter fraud. The phrase “all votes must be counted” has become code (a dogwhistle, if you will) for voter fraud. In close elections lost ballot boxes are found often containing a statistically impossible number of votes for one candidate. These election-stealing practices must end if our Representative Republic is to continue. For those that say there are too many National Holidays already I say pair Election Day with Veterans Day, they are just a week apart anyway. America needs an honest, coherent voting system that can be trusted to give an honest count on Election Day.
As we approach this year's important election facing the mail-in ballot issue, the confused vote counting in single congressional district still undecided in NY, with more than 20,000 ballots rejected on time/day stamps alone, its clear that we must end dishonest voting of all types. While the need for absentee ballots has always been legitimate the mass mailing of blank ballots is an open invitation to fraud. You may argue they will all be found but at what cost? It is important that we know the results of an Election on Election Day. Quick results eliminates post attempts at fraud and of course voting in person is clearly what the Founding Fathers intended. Last week at the John Lewis funeral President Obama agreed. He and I agree on little, but making Election Day a National Holiday is one of them. I have always thought that it is not a National Holiday because people in power want fewer people to vote. Do not be mislead by the "every vote must be counted" mantra. It's a lie. A National Election Day would provide the entire day for voting and there is no one in America more than a day's travel from a polling place. Lets do it, Mr. President, and Congress. America needs an honest count.
