🚨BREAKING: President Trump plans to make Election Day a national holiday, implement single-day voting, paper ballots, and government-issued voter ID .. WHAT AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

[u/TanviVats]

🚨BREAKING: President Trump plans to make Election Day a national holiday, implement single-day voting, paper ballots, and government-issued voter ID .. WHAT AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

[u/BaronsGV]

Making Election Day a national holiday is a great idea.

Single day voting is antiquated. In the next election there is going to be more than 156,302,318 (the number of people who voted in 2024) With that many votes to count it is better that they take their time and get it right.

Think about it like this, Imagine if you had a book you checked out from a library. To turn it in you can't turn it in before the date, they make it so you can only turn it in on the date. This is silly. It is better that you get a good amount of time to turn in your votes early.

What needs to change is they need to set a day two weeks out from election day where it gets announced who is the presumed winner. The media needs to step back, and stop calling elections on election day. There are a number of required recounts mandated by a lot of states, just to be sure, and it is presumptive to announce the winner too soon. I want the votes counted thoroughly, carefully, and diligently before anything is officially announced and called. Wanting things to be done all on the same day is just inviting error. In an elections there is a series of stages before they actually officially know who won. Election counters really don't have it fully sorted out until early December. Statistical Victory - The odds are in favor of a specific candidate - November 7th, Mathematical Victory - The number of votes is larger for a candidate than the remaining votes left to count - November 13th, Official Victory - They know for certain who the winner is - December 7th. This video has a good break down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQ1ieFRr0o

Paper ballots. See the 2000 election. Those were paper ballots. It was still an issue. They used punch card versions in Florida, and those were terrible. I've only ever used paper ballots where you fill in the ovals with black ink. I know this is also flawed because I've had to check on my scantron tests at school and uncovered shenanigans. There is no fool proof version of this, you just have to trust the people counting the votes. Luckily there is a huge division of labor here and it isn't handled by a single entity. This makes it very hard to rig an election in the US. There are too many moving parts.

Government issued voter ID. The way it works in Arizona is I have to register first before I can vote. I give them my drivers license number. In Arizona voter registration is handled by the DMV. When it is election time I get a ballot in the mail. I fill it out. I do not have to wait in a line. I can mail it, or I can drop it off. I drop it off because mail is slower than I am. I do not need to show an ID twice. There is no redundant show of ID. There is a signature on my ballot affirming I'm not lying. Which, I suppose is fine, maybe pointless, but how do they know what my signature looks like? The process is smooth in Arizona.