Reasons for Early Voting and Absentee Voting

For some of us, time is our most limited resource. Feel free to waste yours if you want. I support time saving conveniences.

 

lol at making a "big investment" in something that's totally unnecessary. How wildly conservative of you.

I agree it should be a holiday but beyond that the rest of your OP is silly because you provide ZERO reasons why early voting/absentee voting is problematic.

If you're not concerned about fraud (and you shouldn't be because it's not happening on any scale that matters) then I can only assume that your intent is to decrease turnout. The fewer people that vote the more it favors the GOP. Hard pass.

 

Oh and welcome back. Again. A beacon of mental health.

 

not rhetorical, but what is the concern for early voting? And is there evidence it’s not working?

my biggest concern is state legislators interjecting themselves in the process if they don’t like the results.

And next concern is, after the votes are in, having unethical counters. It seems there are different points in the process they could cheat.

and then drop boxes. I’ve never used one but that would seem like a potential target for problems. A box with lots of votes in the open without effective monitoring.

 

Along these same lines, inevitably we're going to hear about states releasing early voting data each day leading up to Election Day serves as a form of voter suppression of sorts and that data should be kept under wraps. Although, I'm not sure how you could do that given public info laws and such. So the only real alternative to that is to restrict voting to Election Day.

 

I would think the main critique to Election Day only voting would be longer lines to wait in. Some precincts simply don't have the infrastructure to support a high turnout election. So you've now not only reduced it to one day of voting, you've made it even more inconvenient to lots of folks who have to stand in line for hours versus other areas where there are virtually no lines. Thus, the voter in the high-density populated areas might be more inconvenienced than voters in low-density population areas. Which could be construed as unfair and I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that argument.

 

I see Orlando / recently 'retired' Mountaineerpatriot has returned to further disturb and disgrace our disorderly community. I'll let another moderator have the fun of taking out the trash if that's what they decide to do.

 

Georgia just did a report showing its been a decade since an illegal alien voted there. Making it difficult for women and naturalized citizens to vote for no reason is true lawfare. The GOP is a turd-bowl of ideas.

Bombshell: New report by Republicans in Georgia finds non-citizen voting | Swamp Gas Forums

 

That could happen after the votes are cast if a candidate needed, for example, 11,780 more votes to change the result.

 

I think there should be early voting but what is important is to require proof of ID to vote. Not complicated and is favored by the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Americans Endorse Both Early Voting and Voter Verification

With less than two weeks to go in the presidential campaign and voting already underway in many states, 76% of U.S. adults favor the concept of early voting. Two other election law policies are supported by even more Americans -- requiring photo identification to vote (84%) and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time (83%).

 

You have a very valid point. It opens up a lot more opportunity for vote count manipulation. Take a state like PA which now has 50 days to vote. Plenty of time to figure out what you need to do and where. Perhaps the more feasible option is passing a national law which prohibits voters from registering with a certain party, similar to Georgia. Or maybe we limit early in person voting to a week before the election.

 

Red states manipulate election day voting. They put a minimal amount of voting machines in primarily urban minority dense areas so that people have to stay in line for hours. The goal of course is to make them give up and go home. It's also why it's illegal to hand them bottled water or food.

Nah, everyone is on to the various nefarious tricks. We aren't going back.

 

That's not "manipulating" anything. It's just driving turnout.

 

But that works both ways. What if something awful happens to me where I suffer a health emergency and can’t get to the polls? I am fine now. I know unequivocally who I want to vote for. Why not let me get it done???

 

Using this point, what if the scandal is uncovered the day AFTER the election?

 

They might know who voted, but they don't know who anyone voted for. Counts aren't released until after polls are closed. And there are always people who cross party lines, and plenty of independents who are much harder to count. 40% of voters in Arizona are Is, not Ds or Rs.