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I live in a big city (St. Paul) and my place is a couple blocks from my house. Never once have I had to wait more than a few minutes. I don't understand where people are having to wait 2 hours.
Because it was such a problem for the last...200 years? Only now, all of a sudden, it is a problem?
I've almost always voted early or absentee. Generallly, the hours I work don't allow voting at the polls. The polls open about 10 mins before I have to leave for work and close before I get home. If I'm not scheduled that day I can vote at the polls, but absentee is much better.
You claim to have never seen a 2 hr line. Interestingly, the only time I've ever had to wait 2hrs (2.5 to be exact) was when I lived in Minneapolis, where early voting didn't exist (don't know if it does now) and absentee voting was very restricted. Maybe you guys did things so much better across the river in St. Paul, but many of my friends there had similar issues with >1hr lines.
I am a permanent vote by mail voter in California now. It's great, the county sends you an email letting you know that your ballot was received , which alleviates my one anxiety- that my ballot would get lost in the mail.
I think early voting should be 2 weeks before election day in all 50 States. What I don't like is "mail-in ballots"
There are way to many problems with signature verification in mail-in ballots.
Every voter should just go to a early voting site and show an ID to the poll worker and their vote will be counted.
There is so little voter fraud that the idea that we all need to march to a polling place and produce an ID is just plain silly. As someone else suggested if people are concerned about signatures on mail in ballots replace the signature with a password of pin code.
I support early voting. Not everyone can get to the polls when they are open. In my County you could always vote absentee but you had to have a good excuse, like a religious observance, serving as an election judge, or you expect to be out of the County that day.
I support early voting. Not everyone can get to the polls when they are open. In my County you could always vote absentee but you had to have a good excuse, like a religious observance, serving as an election judge, or you expect to be out of the County that day.
Thing is, does anyone actually verify the excuses and take punitive action when they aren't justified?
Salt Lake County is not necessariy majority Mormon.
And when we had "regular" voting - not by mail - our returns were pathetic.
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