Boycott stupid.Maybe we just shouldn’t have any rules or timelines? After all, we need to care about every single person.
We have lots of rules and deadlines here in Colorado. Let me walk y'all through how it would work for our 80 year old friend. On every single aspect, our rules are better, more convenient and more secure than Georgia's. Every single forking one of them.
To start, our friend would have been automatically vote registered at the DMV. That's the perfect time and place to handle all the ID issues. Once registered by the DMV (which requires serious Real ID identity verification) all of the voter ID is done/over. [Of course, to be fair, there are other times/places/ways to vote register. But, practically speaking, most people get registered through the DMV.] Super cost-effective, super secure. And Colorado is #1 in the USA for percentage of eligible adults being registered to vote. Absolutely the gold standard in the USA.
Once registered, our friend automatically gets a ballot delivered to his house for every election and primary. No BS about having to apply to request a ballot, which you can only do in an R month with an application signed in purple ink, with a photocopy of your fingerprints, yada yada bullshirt bullshirt.
Our friend has about three weeks to return his ballot by drop box (80% do this), mail (16% do this) or in person (4%). No additional ID required for drop box or mail (since the DMV handled the ID already) beyond a signature. [FYI, I would support allowing (not requiring) voters to write on their driver license or SS# as a verification step as an alternative to signatures. Seems common sense.] If you vote in person, you do have to show ID. There are 16 (!!!) allowable ways to prove your identity in person.
Drop boxes are open 24/7 with full time video surveillance. One drop box for every 9400 voters. You can use any drop box anywhere in the state (so no BS about only being able to vote in your own precinct). Georgia is limited to one drop box per 100k voters, and drop boxes are only open during regular business hours.
Our friend can legally give his ballot to a friend, family member or neighbor to deliver for him. I cannot deliver more than 10 ballots on behalf of others in any election. Because of those common sense rules, ballot harvesting/dumping isn't an issue out here.
Polls hard close at 7 pm on election day. Mail ballots delivered the next day do not count. Not an issue, since drop boxes are readily available if you want to vote on or near election day.
Ballots are processed and counted as received. So election results are available lightning fast. Since much of the counting is done before election day arrives.
Plenty of rules and deadlines. Very secure. Very convenient. Obviously those are not things Georgia was interested in.
Boycott stupid.
