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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's cool kane, but "taking advantage" of early voting days doesn't mean that they are completely incapable of just voting on election day.
It seems as if the studies are saying that Dems are so stupid and lazy that unless you make it 1000% convenient for them to vote any time and any where...then they simply WON'T vote.
And Republicans apparently care enough about their country to vote the same way that people voted for over 200 years.
I know that can't be true. So why do these studies seem to indicate that? And what the fuck is wrong with people in the Democrat party that they have to be treated so gently?
Do they want us to wipe their asses for them too?
Holy fuck. What a sorry ass bunch of people that can't vote unless it fits their schedule.
Maybe they could fit it in between their spa visit and their round of golf?
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At its core it could be that they are too lazy. It may also be a case of circumstance. Let me give you an example from my life. When I turned 18 and was able to vote in my first election I was still living in the little redneck town I grew up in. My voting precinct was located in our local grade school. I happened to have a job that was a 45 minute commute (maybe more if traffic was bad) each way. With the hours I worked there was no way for me to vote on election day due to the hours that the polls were going to be open. I ended up having two choices. I could do an absentee ballot (which is what I did) or I could take off from work and make a 90 minute round trip to vote. If there had been early voting days I could have went in on my day off and voted.
Regardless of why people vote early be it circumstance, laziness or whatever, why should election day be so sacred? Why should we force people to stand in line, go to specific places and jump through hoops to vote when we have the simple means to make it faster and better. We should be encouraging people to vote not giving them reasons not to vote.
In my opinion every state should do it like my state does which is that 100% of the vote is by mail. You get the ballot and you can either mail it back or drop it in one of the many drop boxes that are around. Simple and easy. You can take as much time as you want with the ballot. You can vote when you want. The ballots come about 2 weeks before the election so you have plenty of time to vote. But that is too easy.