Libertarian ex-Congressman who recently left the GOP, Justin Amash, sounds off on how to fix Congress, gives his prediction for the midterms

[basquebromance]

Trump Republicans idolize Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. Russia's inflation rate is 13%. Hungary's is 20%. America's is only 8.2%. So if Republicans win the midterms, they want inflation to go ... up?

 

[Polishprince]

I don't see how the Republicans conceding the 2022 elections and allowing the D's free reign to rig the system so they can never be challenged will "fix" anything.

 

[Care4all]

No he didnt?

He thinks the Rs will likely win the house and maybe the Senate.....?

 

[basquebromance]

No he didnt?

He thinks the Rs will likely win the house and maybe the Senate.....?

i need to focus better

 

[Care4all]

I don't see how the Republicans conceding the 2022 elections and allowing the D's free reign to rig the system so they can never be challenged will "fix" anything.

Jiminey Cricket, the system was not rigged. Legal citizens, actually got to vote..... and by majority, pick their future president.

That is not rigging a system, or an election.

Finding ways to make it harder, or ways to PREVENT citizens from voting,

IS RIGGING THE SYSTEM.

 

[pknopp]

I don't see how the Republicans conceding the 2022 elections and allowing the D's free reign to rig the system so they can never be challenged will "fix" anything.

Seeing how time after time both parties only screw up and make things worse, I don't understand how anyone thinks either party is the answer.

 

[1srelluc]

Jiminey Cricket, the system was not rigged. Legal citizens, actually got to vote..... and by majority, pick their future president.

That is not rigging a system, or an election.

Finding ways to make it harder, or ways to PREVENT citizens from voting,

IS RIGGING THE SYSTEM.

OK then, answer these two very simple questions:

Should you have to show a valid state/fed ID in order to in-person vote?

If you mail-in/drop-off your ballot should the ballot and envelope be filled out properly for it to count?

tic-toc

 

[Votto]

i need to focus better

Na, just having a Fetterman moment

If worst comes to worst, just run for political office as a democrat.

 

[OldFlame]

OK then, answer these two very simple questions:

Should you have to show a valid state/fed ID in order to in-person vote?

If you mail-in/drop-off your ballot should the ballot and envelope be filled out properly for it to count?

She's a naive fool, or she plays one very well.

 

[basquebromance]

Na, just having a Fetterman moment

If worst comes to worst, just run for political office as a democrat.

i have too many scandals! would you vote for a gay homophobe? an anti-semetic Phoenician?

 

[Polishprince]

Seeing how time after time both parties only screw up and make things worse, I don't understand how anyone thinks either party is the answer.

Fair enough I guess. But giving one party- the Democrat Party- all of the power doesn't seem to be the answer for sure.

Having a Republican Congress to counterweigh the Democrat Party's control of the Presidency and the courts would seem to be what you would want.

 

[Votto]

i have too many scandals! would you vote for a gay homophobe? an anti-semetic Phoenician?

Like I said, you can be anything in the DNC and the media and voters won't care.

You become bullitt proof.

 

[pknopp]

Fair enough I guess. But giving one party- the Democrat Party- all of the power doesn't seem to be the answer for sure.

Having a Republican Congress to counterweigh the Democrat Party's control of the Presidency and the courts would seem to be what you would want.

I have zero problems with a split system. It does at least keep both sides from screwing up a little. That's not the answer though.

We had split systems while the Fed continued to pump, pump, pump and the debt continued to grow.

 

[Manonthestreet]

AMash was a phony from the beginning...show me the money

 

[Catsnmeters]

OK then, answer these two very simple questions:

Should you have to show a valid state/fed ID in order to in-person vote?

I used to support a slow transition into voter ID. Not anymore. It's pointless.

Why should millions of Americans be forced to get yet another ID if when the next Trump type candidate loses they will just claim the IDs we're fake or forged or whatever. Probably claim china was seen dropping off boxes of fake IDs during the night.

For an elecorate who believes in Jewish space lasers and secret Italian servers changing votes, fake IDs would be an easy sell.

If you mail-in/drop-off your ballot should the ballot and envelope be filled out properly for it to count?

tic-toc

 

[pknopp]

I used to support a slow transition into voter ID. Not anymore. It's pointless.

Why should millions of Americans be forced to get yet another ID if when the next Trump type candidate loses they will just claim the IDs we're fake or forged or whatever. Probably claim china was seen dropping off boxes of fake IDs during the night.

For an elecorate who believes in Jewish space lasers and secret Italian servers changing votes, fake IDs would be an easy sell.

We don't have a country of cheaters, we have a country of poor losers.

 

[Care4all]

OK then, answer these two very simple questions:

Should you have to show a valid state/fed ID in order to in-person vote?

If you mail-in/drop-off your ballot should the ballot and envelope be filled out properly for it to count?

It depends.... on all of them .....and each state's constitution is involved, along with the court decisions when sued on these issues.

Bottom line, if you think something was wrongly done, you challenge it, in state courts....

And the last decision a court makes on the challenge, before citizens vote, you go with as the legal decision, and voters are allowed to vote in the manner that the courts decide in their rulings of the challenges.... Whichever way the court decides and even if it is appealed for future decisions, anything that comes from the decisions of their appeals do not affect the present election vote....even if it differed with the lower court decision, BECAUSE the citizens were TOLD prior to the election, they could vote that way.

When it comes to something like not completely filling out their address on their ballot envelope or something of the sort, they should not be automatically rejected or thrown out, at least in some states.... If their constitution does not state they should be thrown out and the citizen disenfranchised of their vote, or their constitution gives all citizens under conditions like their age, being a resident etc the right to vote, can make a big difference in the court decisions to the challenges.... This happened in court decisions in 2020....

We as citizens have the constitutional RIGHT TO VOTE, legislatures DO NOT constitutionally have the right to throw out our vote.... No where does it say such in the constitution...

One court ruled that if the voter did not put in their address compketely, but there was record that the voter requested the absentee ballot, and the ballot envelope had a signature, and the signature matched their records, then the citizens right to vote, outweighed the rule about filling out their address completely.....

Another court ruled that absentee votes could not be rejected simply for an address not filled out or signatures not quite right without notifying the voter and giving them a few days to come in and correct what the election office etc, rejected...

NOTHING is more important than the citizen's right to vote ...and pick their representatives and leaders, in a Constitutional, Democratic Republic! Courts make their decisions from this view.

And if you are old enough to remember the Bush v Gore 2000 election recount....

where in election rules did the legislatures write in rules in their election law for counting .....?

Hanging Chads, and Dimples????

No where....

But those votes were allowed to be counted, BECAUSE..... drum roll.....

There is nothing more important than the citizen's constitutional right to vote.

 

[Hellokitty]

I used to support a slow transition into voter ID. Not anymore. It's pointless.

Why should millions of Americans be forced to get yet another ID if when the next Trump type candidate loses they will just claim the IDs we're fake or forged or whatever. Probably claim china was seen dropping off boxes of fake IDs during the night.

For an elecorate who believes in Jewish space lasers and secret Italian servers changing votes, fake IDs would be an easy sell.

Who are these millions of Americans who don't vote because they can't get an ID ?

 

[Catsnmeters]

Who are these millions of Americans who don't vote because they can't get an ID ?

Not sure. Why do you ask?

What I was referring too is the millions who would have to get a voter ID if it became mandatory to vote.

 

[Care4all]

Who are these millions of Americans who don't vote because they can't get an ID ?

Citizens who did not drive, did not have a govt pictured id, in their wallet....those who did drive, had no hurdles.