Elon Musk advocates requiring ID to vote and holding in-person voting



Business magnate Elon Musk is advocating for in-person voting and for requiring a government-issued identification to vote.

"We should require government ID and in-person voting (unless valid medical/ military/etc excuse), like other countries do or like if you want to buy beer," Musk tweeted.

"Literally the same people who said voter ID was racist also demanded that you get a vaccine ID to travel anywhere or work!" Musk wrote in another post.

"It's racist to claim that an adult is incapable of obtaining ID!" he has tweeeted. "Claiming that people can't figure out how to get ID is racist and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms," he wrote.

Musk appeared to agree with someone who described "Radical Democrats" as racists. "Radical Democrats are some of the most racist people in the United States. They have a hero complex that requires making minorities into helpless victims. It's gross and it needs to stop," Kyle Becker wrote. Musk responded with the 100 emoji.

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As America continues to face massive numbers of migrants flocking to the nation's southern border, Musk has suggested, "The Biden administration is actively aiding and abetting illegal immigration, because they are viewed as future voters."

Musk has called for putting a stop to unlawful immigration, but expanding lawful immigration.

"While it is trivial to enter the United States illegally, it is insanely difficult for legal immigrants to move to the United States. This is madness! We should shut down illegal immigration and greatly increase legal immigration," Musk wrote.

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Study finds 'no detectable surge' in COVID-19 cases from Wisconsin primary, in-person voting was a 'low-risk activity'



A new study found no evidence that in-person voting at Wisconsin's primary election produced a "detectable surge" of COVID-19 cases.

A peer-reviewed study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health examined Wisconsin's primary election on April 7, and what effect it had or didn't have on spreading coronavirus.

Approximately 1.55 million people voted in April's primary, nearly 1.1 million cast their vote via absentee ballot. The more than 400,000 people who voted in-person did not spur a significant spread of coronavirus.

Researchers from the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health, some affiliated with the World Health Organization, analyzed confirmed COVID-19 cases and new hospitalizations in the weeks before and after the April 7 election. The researchers used data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

In Wisconsin, coronavirus cases "steadily declined throughout April," falling from the peak of 101 on April 3 to only 14 on April 18. The researchers used a coronavirus incubation period of 10-15 days.

Overall, there were 71 people who tested positive for COVID-19 who voted in-person or were poll workers during the Wisconsin primary election.

"To put this information into perspective, if we assume that the SARS-CoV-2 fatality rate among symptomatic patients who were physically capable of voting in person on April 7 (e.g., not including nursing home residents) is 1% (using the fatality rate of known cases for people younger than 60 years), then (in the worst case, in which all 71 cases were attributable to voting) we would expect 0.71 deaths out of 413,220 people, which is the fatality risk of driving an automobile approximately 140 miles," the authors stated.

"Taken together, there is no evidence to date that there was a surge of infections due to the April 7, 2020 election in Wisconsin," the authors wrote. "Taken together, it appears the voting in Wisconsin on April 7 was a low-risk activity."

Before the election, many pundits, politicians, and media outlets warned how dangerous it was to hold the primary during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"No one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy like the debacle in Wisconsin this week," former President Barack Obama tweeted.

By late April, experts were shocked when there was not a spike in coronavirus-related deaths.