I have to talk about my voting experience today. I voted for low inflation, free speech, my right to own and carry a weapon, jobs, America first and a secure border. In other words I voted for Trump.
I live in a relatively small suburban town in NJ that has been historically Republican. We elected a Republican mayor and council last year rejecting a woke pride loving Democrat running against him. BTW, he is an Asian American and a good conservative.
Two years ago, the county, which used to be Republican but is now deep blue replaced our old voting machines with these new things where you have to use a touch screen to vote, then print your ballot then take it to a scanner. After you check in of course. But the check in does not include an ID. They ask you questions like your address, middle initial, and name. Then you sign on a screen, then on a piece of paper. They do not compare signatures. Although they have them on file.
I have been voting since the 1970s and never in my life for any election have I ever had to wait for more than a couple of people to vote before I could enter the booth and vote myself. The new process, which they claim is more secure, takes much longer for each person to vote. We used to have 3 voting machines. Now we have a dozen and the lines were still out the door. It took me 30 minutes from the time I got on line to the time I exited the building. This is progress? I am retired, but I imagine people who have to work will consider skipping the long lines to get to work on time, or if they vote on their way home they will skip voting to go home and have dinner and chill out after a long day working.
I get the old machines were breaking down and not supported so they needed a new process. But this process is too complicated with too many steps. The more steps the more points of failure. And I am not sure it is any more secure than the old process. In both cases we have to rely on the machines to tally the votes correctly. The old machines were not connected to the internet so I believe they were more secure.
In any case, with all this nonsense to vote now, why is providing a voter ID a step too far? It is all such nonsense.
BTW, thanks to our mandatory affordable housing requirements in NJ my once conservative town is looking more and more woke liberal all the time. But this is how Democrats turn red states blue.