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This voting bs has gotten out of hand.
I remember when election day was a holiday, and most business, including stores and banks closed for the day,
Liquor could not be sold, and bars were closed until the polls closed.
Most voted in person, and that is the way it should be.
If you couldn't find a way to the polls, you just didn't vote.
I think mail in voting should be limited to the disabled, and military, and no one else gets to vote by mail.
In person, or you don't vote, and show current ID or you don't get to vote.
If it was good enough in the past(and it worked for years) it should be god enough now.
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I remember...................................Sad....
I remember when the Democratic party
was the party of hard working Americans
instead of the party of Politicians.
True voter fraud should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but only if proof meeting judicial evidentiary standards can be offered.
Isolated voter fraud is not a legitimate reason to create voter suppression affecting a far greater number of voters.
Well put. The fake claims of fraud in 2020 were and are ridiculous and unfounded.
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Originally Posted by VA Yankee
When was election day a holiday with store closures and no alcohol sales?
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Originally Posted by CALGUY
The voting process worked fine for years when it was a holiday, and people voted in person.
There was no fraud, or voter suppression to speak of ,and people didn't expect there would be, it was just never even thought of.
I have no idea where you lived that election day was a general holiday. It never was anywhere that I lived. Stores or businesses were not closed and people were often lined up to vote long after the polls were supposed to close. Polling places were many hours late bringing their ballots in to be counted. Alcohol sales were prohibited on election day where we lived. When I worked in state government in the 1970s government workers were given the day off. This (and alcohol restrictions) was the result of rampant fraud and vote suppression and alcohol induced voting in earlier decades.
In the early 1900s, and probably earlier, gangs would raid polling places on election day stuffing ballot boxes and abusing or beating up voters supporting the "wrong" candidate. My great-uncles were part of the gangs that were enforcing the election outcome.
Originally, the right to vote was limited to about 6% of the population.
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The Constitution of the United States grants the states the power to set voting requirements. Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males (about 6% of the population). ... Since married women were not allowed to own property, they could not meet the property qualifications.
A few posters here wish that that had never changed.
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