With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Gee...what could we possibly talk about this week?

A vast majority of the problems we have seen this week can be solved with just a few tweaks to our election system. Fraud will never be zero, but with a few changes, we can take it as close to zero as possible.

First, no more early voting. Participating in the process of electing our representatives is a right, but it also is a responsibility. If you are unwilling or unable to make it to the polls on election day, then you have failed in your responsibility. In Wisconsin, not only are the polls open for 13 hours, but state law requires that an employer make concessions to allow employees to vote. Again, it is your responsibility to cast your vote.

Absentee voting only allowed for those that are physically unable to make it to the polls. Overseas military deployment, homebound disabled, hospitalization, and the like are the only ways someone should be allowed to vote absentee. It's not like the election days change that much (federal general elections are always the first Tuesday of November.) Nobody's vacation MUST be taken on election day. Again, you are responsible for planning your life.

Voter ID should be mandatory. You have to prove your identity for so many things in society, what is one more? Don't give me that worn out, disproven trope about people can't get an ID. You are supposedly an adult. Act like one and make the effort to get an ID.

Votes stop when the polls close. This crap in Pennsylvania about waiting for mailed ballots for days is insane. If you cannot be responsible enough to make sure your ballot is received by election day, that is not on the clerks. It's on you.

No more same day registration. I am still at a loss as to why states, including Wisconsin, continue to allow this. If you want to vote, you sure can make it to the clerk's office a week or two before the election to be registered. With your ID of course.

This all may seem harsh, but that's the point. As a voter, you have certain responsibilities. It isn't the job of society at large to make your life as easy as possible for you. You have to do your part.

We have made it far too easy for people to skate by in life. A large chunk of society is set up to think for far too many people. Far too many times, people are not held responsible for their own lives. It is time to take some of that back. Make people responsible. Make people think. Isn't the most sacred right of our Republic the perfect place to start?