The Trump Thread

[Jimbo1337]

Torillian said:

Jimbo1337 said:

Actually, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill recently announced that thousands of non-citizens were mistakenly registered to vote due to a state software glitch, and nearly 400 of them cast ballots. This proves that vulnerabilities do exist under current systems. Consequently, individuals who vote in violation of current laws should face criminal charges, voter rolls must be updated to remove ineligible names, and implementing preventive legislation is a logical next step to address these concerns at the source.

I'm glad we agree. That's exactly why voting against democratic socialists is necessary to keep them from getting into power and enacting those policies.

To my mind the New Jersey incident is evidence that things are working fine. The systems as they are found it and have corrected it and the amount of voting was small enough that it didn't affect anything. 

Do we need national legislation to try and avoid 400 already illegal votes?

Only unfortunate part about all this is the timing means some will latch on to it. 

It’s also worth looking at the scale of what we consider a threat to our elections. Back in 2016, a major focus was placed on the 26 Russian nationals indicted for trying to influence the election, and there was broad agreement that we needed urgent action to protect our system from foreign interference. If 26 foreign nationals warrant national concern and policy shifts, then nearly 400 non-citizens actually casting ballots through a state system failure is a vulnerability we shouldn't dismiss just because the number seems small. Security should be consistent, whether the vulnerability comes from foreign hackers or domestic software glitches.