There's no such thing as 'smart' ballot drop boxes. AZ GOP proposal would require their use.

[Nevilledog]

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Jeremy Duda
@jeremyduda
A Republican bill would require someone to invent a type of ballot drop box that doesn't currently exist for Arizona to conduct future elections, from @glorihuh

azmirror.com
There's no such thing as 'smart' ballot drop boxes. A GOP proposal would require their use.
Early voters in Arizona would be barred from putting their ballots in mailboxes and would instead be required to put them in ballot drop boxes that would take a picture of every voter if under a...
11:58 AM · Feb 21, 2022

https://www.azmirror.com/2022/02/21/theres-no-such-thing-as-smart-ballot-drop-boxes-a-gop-proposal-would-require-their-use/


Early voters in Arizona would be barred from putting their ballots in mailboxes and would instead be required to put them in ballot drop boxes that would take a picture of every voter if under a Republican proposal that won preliminary approval last week.

Under the legislation, drop boxes would be outfitted with 24-hour photo or video cameras that can link any ballots inserted into the box to that person’s image. Each person would be allowed to deposit no more than seven ballots into a drop box, and the boxes would be required to generate a receipt showing how many ballots a person deposited. (It would also have to keep an internal copy of every receipt). And if the camera malfunctions, the box must be designed to prevent ballots from being deposited.

“If we can’t get an outright ban (on drop-boxes) we need to come up with these ‘smart’ drop boxes. In the meantime — while we’re working on those — I would like to see drop-boxes in a secure location,” said Sen. Kelly Townsend, a Republican from Apache Junction and the sponsor of Senate Bill 1571.

Townsend, who also chairs the Senate Government Committee that approved the bill Thursday, said she intended to amend it later to remove the ban on returning early ballots by mail. She said she hoped to push the bill through committee as an alternative in case a bill passed out of the same committee last week prohibiting drop boxes fails in the full Senate.

State law already requires drop boxes to be placed in secure locations approved by a county’s board of supervisors. Boxes that are outside must be tied down to concrete or similarly immovable objects to prevent tampering or removal.

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. The GOP is sinking themselves with anti mail in laws

Mail in only favored Dems in 2020 because we were in the middle of a pandemic and Dems were more likely to be cautious about it. Normally, mail in favors Reps, they're making it harder for their voters to vote with their mail in laws. They're going to make red polling stations have longer lines.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

Are they advocating facial recognition for our secret ballots?

If my state can (and they do) mail an absentee ballot to me, I can mail it back. NO photo required. If I want to mail it, I should be able to use the very same mail service the state does. If I take it to a drop box, it should not matter what I look like when I do so. Photographs are simply to help the racists identify those "who pass" the visual whiteness test, but might be somehow mixed race, or lightly Latino, or anything other than Anglo Saxon.

Maybe they ought to set those drop boxes up at post offices, Election offices, DMVs.

They know they can't win, so they'll demand something that doesn't yet exist to prevent everyone not affluent, white, evangelical, and male from voting.

All because mediocre white guys who view politics like ESPN bet their whole wad on the losing team.

[LonePirate]

3. Does the GOP think people are breaking into these boxes and swapping ballots?

These smart boxes don’t do anything to deter fraud as people aren’t depositing thousands of fraudulent ballots in them. Ballots and signatures are checked against voter rolls and such. Does the GOP think these verifications are not performed and any thing resembling a ballot is counted?

[Mad_Machine76]

5. It would seem

that these laws are being written by people whom have never managed an election and/or woefully ignorant of how elections are conducted by officials. Or entertain bizarre conspiracy theories about them.

[LonePirate]

6. It's like they think these boxes are counting the ballots which they are not.

These people are completely nuts.

[Mad_Machine76]

7. Yup

Trump started all of this madness and others are going along with it. We need to make sure that people pushing these conspiracies don't hold any election-related office.

[crickets]

4. What utter nonsense and a waste of money. nt