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Mexico has right voting procedures

Our midterm elections are nearly complete. However, there are several high-profile elections in Georgia and Florida still in doubt and yet to be decided. Questions remain especially in Florida as ballots continue to turn up. Recounts are underway with those being done by humans more susceptible to mistakes. This scenario has played out before. Can we expect increasingly more evidence of questionable voting, ballot submissions, and possible fraud in future U.S. elections? Time will tell.

Voter fraud in Mexico was apparently so rampant prior to the 1990’s that Mexico required eligible voters to register and obtain a voting card. The government-issued photo IDs are credentials required at federal election stations in order to vote.

This is not voter suppression, but a straight-forward common-sense program to ensure that eligible Mexican citizens are voting and that the outcomes are legitimate. Let’s follow their example before things get any further out- of-hand in our Country. Mexico does have it right.

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