It would be too expensive to monitor all cases that violate the First Amendment. Do you propose to raise taxes by 50%?
Training of volunteers to do this job properly will cost in excess of 35 Billion dollars.
Your turn.
Then don’t vote ahead of time.
Did you seriously think that I don’t believe in the first amendment?
What the hell does this even mean?
My point is that the very proposal violates the First Amendment.
Where did “monitor all the cases” come from? Who would monitor what?
If the law was passed – and apparently the whole proposal was a “joke” anyway – but if it were, then the first attempt to apply it would result in Fox News asserting a First Amendment defense. Defending against that claim is a cost borne by the government – a cost arising because the proposal was implemented. I’m not calling for the proposal to be implemented; I am speaking against it.
Really? I don’t remotely agree. Similar training costs for law enforcement personnel doesn’t support that conclusion.
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There’s my cite. Where’s yours, for the 35 billion?
I seriously think you’d like to see Fox News shut down, and wouldn’t care about the First Amendment when you did so.
I seriously think you’re perfectly willing to be dishonest if you get to win.
And you didn’t ask, but I seriously think you have some social retardation thing going on. Mild Aspergers, maybe.
Based on what, exactly? Because you know me so well?
I would love to see Fox News shut down because they can’t pay their bills because America advances enough in common sense to stop watching their garbage. I would not want the government to shut it down because I care very much about the first Amendment. I don’t think I am unusual in feeling this way.
You’ll note that I completely failed to specify the nature of the infrastructure. If you want to go for mail-in, knock yourself out. We get by with paper ballots, pencils, cardboard “booths” set on top of tables, and hand counting. I’ve never waited in line more than 5 minutes or so. Whatever actually works. Whatever they’re doing in Florida clearly doesn’t.
NOW you’re getting it. It’s about winning. Winning arguments. Winning debates. Winning elections.
As long as it can be done within the rules (or if you can skirt the rules just…a little)
It helps if you realize that it’s about winning with Bricker. It’s not about what is the right thing to do, or what is just, or what is moral. These things are meaningless.
It’s about who wins.
This is a very common mindset, especially amongst politicians and law-talking people.
ETA: And if you call them on it, they resort to mild insults. Nice.
Then don’t tell us that voting by mail is an acceptable alternative to increasing election day poll capacity.
Yes, it certainly is a mystery what might have led me to issue a mild insult. No provocation, that’s for sure.
Maybe we’ll never know.
Are you daft? Your ballot only needs to be postmarked on Election Day. If you’re worried about finding your candidate with a live boy, then fill out your ballot on election day, and mail it in.
This is such a stupid issue, I can’t believe anyone is trotting it out. There is always a problem that, after you vote, you’ll find something out about the candidate. It’s true if you vote 1 week before election day or if you vote on election day.
Yeah, but you guys are Canadian, and you’re nice. 
I agree about FL, though. Anyone worried about waiting in line, and who doesn’t vote by mail, is doing something wrong.
What, specifically, do you mean by “fixing it?”
Are you literally, literally now, saying that it’s not fixed if even one person must wait longer than 3 hours?
This is your chance to answer specifically and literally. Pretend I’m Data, from Star Trek, and I won’t get sophisticated Earth humor or allusion.
Data can’t use contractions.
Pretend I am Data, then.
No. I want confirmation that vote has been received. If I wait till Election Day to send in my ballot, I won’t get confirmation until it’s too late. This is unacceptable to me as someone who has reason to distrust the election process.
What kind of confirmation do you receive when you vote by mail? I’ve been doing it for decades, and I’ve never gotten any kind of “confirmation”.
Do you have evidence that voting by mail is significantly less secure than voting in person?