Thread by @lymanstoneky

I'm one of those approximately 14 Americans who thinks we should give PR statehood and have a new VRA but not DC statehood or universal mail-in balloting.

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1348996746140119041

Good question! Let me list a few things.

Election day is a a kind of super-Federal Holiday, and no employer other than public safety organizations can schedule more than 4 hours of work.

https://twitter.com/lacker/status/1349033551279185920

Commit money to waive passport application fees, expand the agency producing them, and automatically issue them for each social security number or any time somebody interacts with the Federal government.

This is a way of providing everybody a free, high-quality Federally-issued voter ID without tying it to driving or meddling in current state regulations.

Beef up funding for Federal election observers. Include providers of election technology in a stricter audit framework.

Codify that the meaning of the 14th amendment, section 2, means, "a state's electoral apportionment shall be proportional to the actual number of votes cast in recent presidential election, non-participation being evidence of abridgement."

Have Congress re-pass the correct language of the original first amendment, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, establishing that states shall have 1 House member per 60,000 residents.

Have the Federal government provide more dedicated funding, inversely proportional to the poverty rate in a state, for poll workers, election sites, and the election process.

That's it that's the plan.

We should not restore the coverage formula since there's not much evidence that it was actually capturing places offering bad access conditions.

The correct way to deal with access is to interpret the 14th amendment as saying that a state's electors should be reduced by an amount proportional to the share of eligible voters who do not in fact vote. That's the correct compromise.

Most state ID laws do not require that you have an address. They just require you to prove you are you.

https://twitter.com/Snetsrak/status/1349039605996281856

Oh one last thign I'd add:

All mail-in ballotting is banned. Even absentee. Physically show up or you don't count.

That's the tradeoff for the super-holiday. Everybody gets the day off work! Do your civic duty.

Also early voting is banned.

Everybody gets a holiday. Everybody. Work hour limitations, the whole shebang. We increase funding for workers and stations. We do all this stuff.

And the tradeoff is IT'S ALL ON ELECTION DAY.

I might make an exception for uniformed personnel. But long-term expats are disenfranchised. I say that as a long term expat.

https://twitter.com/disluckyperson/status/1349040856553172992

"DC should be a state" trolls by the way will no longer be replied to and if persistent will be blocked.

Ban non-day-of voting because such voting 1) is harder to police 2) cannot guarantee the secret ballot 3) opens the door to absurd and excessive litigation and 4) misunderstands the very point of what voting is and 5) opens the door to dead-candidate problems

Someone has seen through my ruse!

Yes. This lays the groundwork for rolling back the US' stupid and absurd tax-harrassment of expats.

https://twitter.com/WPaul/status/1349042560329797632