Reasons for Early Voting and Absentee Voting

During the pandemic, 1/3 of all workers were deemed essential. In the OP plan, they would be given two weeks to vote. If it's OK for them, why not for everybody?

 

Either you feel like everyone should do things the way you do them or you want a voting setup that favors the GOP.

No one ever presented these alternatives back when the GOP dominated vote by mail. Only since Democrats started doing it en masse did we start hearing these kinds of suggestions.

 

I, for one, find it way more convenient to fill out a form and put it in the mail, as opposed to driving somewhere, standing in line, doing the same, and then driving home.

Pretty simple concept, really.

 

Valid point. I do think people can weigh that risk. Trump could keel over the day after the election too. I suspect undecideds vote late.

 

Understood but let's say there is some other major scandal comes out that no one was aware of that ends up impacting the campaign one way or the other. I'm not sure that can be properly priced in. I think about two weeks of early voting is the happy medium. It is close enough to the election that it is unlikely any new information that is not health related is going to come out but still gives voters a significant window to vote early if they choose.

 

The same thing that would happen if he had a major heart attack the day after he won.

 

How, specifically, does early voting make it easier to manipulate an election?

 

I guess all those early voters are really earning it then, giving up and sacrificing more than election day short-cutters.

 

You are right…voting should be easy and there is nothing easier than to be sure you have a valid picture ID with you when voting.

You need a valid ID to be allowed to do many other things in this country and it is not difficult for anyone to be sure they have that in their possession while voting. That is easy even for you, correct?

 

I like this, but we can do better. Don't announce the polling locations until 8AM on Election Day; in fact, we should make Election Day be a moving target to make sure it's not too convenient for anybody. The first day of November, the day of the Election will be revealed; and the morning of election day, the polling locations will be revealed. The locations shouldn't be announced by normal postal address, not by longitude/latitude, but by US National Grid coordinates. Take people in groups, say 24, we'll call them "tributes" and they have to battle for the right to cast a vote among the group. One ballot per group, and then move on to the next group.

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We already have it in NC and the SOB pubs are putting some POS amendment on the ballot making married women and naturalized citizens go extra steps to tie their names to birth certificates for proof. Maiden vs married name needs additional steps to vote. You give an inch they take a mile. I am 100% anti-ID. It’s gateway to the bullshit they are trying here.

 

150,000,000 people voting one day all in person isn’t feasible without massive change & investment.

 

As long as votes are verified to be from qualified, registered voters, no one should care too much about a reasonable early voting period (10-14 days seems the norm). The kink in the system concerns the mail-in ballots which are shrouded in confusion and uncertainty. No state should simply send out ballots without a specific request from a verified, registered voter. Note that states also have a curative period for those who have unforseen circumstances, etc. So this is not an issue of anyone being denied the right to vote - that is, for those who are actually verified and registered to legally vote. I remain perplexed how these safeguards are in any way objectionable.

 

So your goal is to make it more inconvenient by having more people show up on election day? How about this: since the value of your vote is partially determined by inconvenience, drive around for 30 minutes before you vote to make it more inconvenient for you while not doing so for others.

 

I've voted by mail in ballot in Florida since 2000. I'm not changing a damn thing because you think it's "lazy".

 

Can I vote in your precinct. I walked right in for my early voting at the library and when I have waited until election day, I wait about an hour.

 

I'm a Flagler Gator, too. Voted yesterday at the Methodist Church in Flagler Beach - no waiting!!

 

I get my ballot in the mail, fill it out at home with help of google when needed to look someone up or info on an amendment, then drop it off at a drop box.

I do that because it's coinvent, I can do it on my own timeline, I can access information easy and my time, I never have to wait in line, it doesn't interfere with my work schedule, family time, or whatever.

I live in Florida -- which has liberal early and vote from home laws -- where republicans always win, and for some reason never claim voter fraud due to their voting laws....

 

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