Asters and Goldenrod

Despite the fact that Dominion Voting Systems did nothing wrong, the company has been sold.  Ever since  the 2020 election, conspiracy theories have claimed it's voting machines must have been rigged.  Dominion won all of it's suits for millions of dollars but the continuing and relentless conspiracy theories proved to be too much.  Hopefully the new company will be as responsive and ethical as Dominion was.

A new bill is working it's way through my state's legislature started by two conspiracy theorists.   Currently anyone who votes must be a citizen - just as in every state.  On a New Voter Registration Form, they need to check a box stating they are a citizen on threat of a felony w/ fines and jail time.   All new registrations are later checked at a state-wide level for accuracy.   The proposed law's method of telling if a person is a citizen is to check the Department of Transportation (DOT) records for the state before they can register.  Tricky.  First, my state doesn't synch DOT lists w/ voter registration lists so that would require time, programming, and cost of set up.   Second, because my state allows same-day registration, all voting areas would need to have access to those DOT records on election day.   Smaller town halls, like mine, don't necessarily have high speed Internet  (nor any Internet access or even phone lines).   Other states handle this by cutting off voter registration weeks ahead of an election.  In the past I've been happy I could help the 18 year old that didn't realize she needed to register until she came in to vote for the first time; the life long resident whose name had been purged from the polls because he hadn't voted in four years but wanted to vote now; the older lady who sold her home and moved in next door w/ her kids so she had a new address and needed to reregister.  There have been exactly  3 cases of non-citizens registering to vote since 2019 in my state.  Balance that against the thousands of legitimate voters who will be disenfranchised each election if we get rid of same-day registrations.

The nasty old man to this day still insists the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him which kicked off a rash of these voting conspiracies.  Why do people still believe him?