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If you want to remove the hassle that comes with voting, you make it a national holiday. People can get the day off from work to go and vote. Then people's excuses are limited and there's more time for fir more people, so it will be easier to get around the crowd.
Not a bad idea. As it stands, I am in a job with flexible hours so I can just ask off. The guy that is working the register at the sandwich shop across from the voting place, not so much. So there might be a bit of disenfranchisement between people working professional jobs with leave and flexible hours, and people working low tier service type jobs.
Agreed. The integrity and celebratory nature of an election is more important to me than convenience. It really is not that hard to vote. But I admit I never had an issue with lines, I seen some photos where the lines are really long. Not sure what an average wait time is across the nation, but I am literally in and out in less than 5 minutes.
Even when we have a few weeks of early voting in my area, my wait time has been as short as 5 minutes or as long as an hour and a half. It depends on when I go. But if there were no early voting, my wait would probably be in the 2-3+ hour window, even with weeding out some people. I wouldn't have a problem with the wait, but my employer would.
Ideally, voting day would be a holiday, as it is in many countries. But I doubt we'll see that any time soon. Saturday voting would help, but is not a complete solution, since so many people work on Saturdays.
Mail-in voting as I've experienced it, is not only convenient, it seems to spur people to spend more time researching candidates. Not rational, I know, but people will often cite this as a big reason they like it. And by its nature it easily allows for early voting.
I don't know of anything that prevents those last minute "oops, I think I want to change my vote" situations. After all, even if you vote only on election day, there's no guarantee that you would know whether your candidate said or did something the day before the election that would cause you to change your mind.
If you want to remove the hassle that comes with voting, you make it a national holiday. People can get the day off from work to go and vote. Then people's excuses are limited and there's more time for fir more people, so it will be easier to get around the crowd.
I'm against the National Holiday for voting....it will be too enticing to go to the beach or otherwise get out of town and would decrease participation IMO.
Ideally, voting day would be a holiday, as it is in many countries. But I doubt we'll see that any time soon. Saturday voting would help, but is not a complete solution, since so many people work on Saturdays.
Mail-in voting as I've experienced it, is not only convenient, it seems to spur people to spend more time researching candidates. Not rational, I know, but people will often cite this as a big reason they like it. And by its nature it easily allows for early voting.
I don't know of anything that prevents those last minute "oops, I think I want to change my vote" situations. After all, even if you vote only on election day, there's no guarantee that you would know whether your candidate said or did something the day before the election that would cause you to change your mind.
The Saturday voting would be 24 hours. Or make it a 2 day voting window...all weekend.
I'm against the National Holiday for voting....it will be too enticing to go to the beach or otherwise get out of town and would decrease participation IMO.
Well, then only the serious voters would participate. I'm cool with that.
Every vote possible should be counted. Some people just won't be able to get to a voting center so you need a way for those people to cast their vote. I have been voting for 2 decades and I have never had a wait more than 5 minutes however in this past election, i went at 8am and the line was out the door. Luckily I was working from home that day and the voting center was only a few blocks away so I said 'forget this' and went home. I came back during lunch and there was no line. My commute on the train is an hour so if I had to go into work that day, I possibly would not have voted. If this type of occurence is normal in some parts of the country, early voting is crucial
Most of the time, the guy running for congress doesn't try to imitate Hulk Hogan the day before the election.
True. For those of us employed full time - early voting is a Godsend. That said, I don't expect my candidate to lose their chit over a simple question the night before he is supposed to win an election.
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Democrats wouldn't release this nonsense if they thought the race was already lost. That it comes out the night before an election, without time to get any facts from the candidate, or party, means dirty tricks. The reporter is likely a Democrat who did his best to bait the candidate into pushing him back. My understanding is the reporter was shoving a cell phone into the candidates face, and wouldn't stop, would not agree to speak with the candidates press representative, and wouldn't stop asking the same question. Which had been long ago answered.
The question had never been answered - because the CBO score just came out! Evidently you have not listened to the tape OR your friends at Faux who witnessed the event.
They corroborate the reporters version of events; he asked a very mundane question about the CBO score and your Republican candidate lost his mind. Obviously a high pressure job would not be a good fit for this individual. He cannot take the heat.
I used to vote early when I lived in Montana. I wouldn't change the rules because more people would be unable to vote than people who would actually change their vote.
Hell, read the thread about Gianforte. Some people are actually praising him and saying they'd vote for him because of his assault. It's despicable.
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