I didn't know much about him, but I didn't have Thune being completely worthless and incompetent on my Bingo card. Just horrifically incompetent.

He's a Uniparty tick.

He's a clone of McConnell, without the obvious CCP ties.

Ag4life80 said:

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I didn't know much about him, but I didn't have Thune being completely worthless and incompetent on my Bingo card. Just horrifically incompetent.

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I don't think he in incompetent. I think Thune is doing exactly what he wants to do, which is killing the SAVE Act in a way that he can blame it on somebody else.

This whole situation depresses me. It's hard to have any faith in your government if you can't believe the reliability of your elections. You have to show ID to do almost anything in our country, except our greatest civic responsibility? Every poll shows that at least 70% of Americans think this you must show your ID to vote! Yet, a handful of people who care more about themselves than the people they swore to represent are preventing the will of the people and allowing elections to be compromised.

Thune needs to be removed from leadership and then primaried. He is a clown.

Thunes behavior only reinforces my belief that both sides buy votes as necessary. This type of fraud cannot be attributed to one party only, unless the party is self preservation. I which case congress is utterly filled with those types. If only state legislators could hold at least their senators accountable. Voters sure as hell can't.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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The government does not share information well. By design.

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So I just want to take the opportunity to observe that the new executive order by President Trump is essentially doing exactly what I'm advocating for here -- using the records held by the Social Security administration, which apparently contains enough data for DHS to verify a person's citizenship status, to confirm that a person who is registered to vote is indeed eligible to vote.

Now, there certainly is the potential for registration under stolen social security numbers. There was a big bust in Florida a few years ago where a construction contractor under mandatory eVerify was employing a bunch of illegal aliens who had provided stolen social security numbers and fraudulent ID documents to pass that system. However, under Florida law there is no onus on the employers to verify the authenticity of ID documents, where when I registered to vote in Florida I was required to send in copies of my driver's license along with my social security number, and the state does verify that the license number and the name match the person who is registering. So in order for a fraudulent voter registration to be successful under the new EO, the fraudster would need to steal both the social security number of a person and their drivers' license number in order to register under their name, and then they would have to hope that the real owner of those numbers didn't try to register himself and cause a flag when that registration was rejected as a duplicate.

Seems pretty secure to me.

Info on the EO in case you missed it:

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Citizenship Verification and Voter Eligibility in Federal Elections The White House