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Should Voting Be Easy, Or Difficult???

Voting in the USofA should be:

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When it comes to voting in elections in the USofA, should it be easy or difficult???
 
Dragonfly said:
When it comes to voting in elections in the USofA, should it be easy or difficult???
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Voting is already easy. You show up to your assigned polling place on election day. Show your voter registration card and in states with common sense you also show your state issued ID seeing how your voter registration is just a crappy piece of card stock that took no identification to get. The poll worker hands you a ballot and you go vote.
 
Much of politics should be guided by ethics and science. Most people/voters/politics/politicians are NOT guided by ethics and science.
 
jamesrage said:
Voting is already easy. You show up to your assigned polling place on election day. Show your voter registration card and in states with common sense you also show your state issued ID seeing how your voter registration is just a crappy piece of card stock that took no identification to get. The poll worker hands you a ballot and you go vote.
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Actually, how you vote and your accessibility to the polls and the information you have to provide to vote depends on where you live.
 
jamesrage said:
Voting is already easy. You show up to your assigned polling place on election day. Show your voter registration card and in states with common sense you also show your state issued ID seeing how your voter registration is just a crappy piece of card stock that took no identification to get. The poll worker hands you a ballot and you go vote.
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After you wait in a line for as much as 10-11 hours because republicans shut down most of the polling places in minority areas. Yea that really happens.
 
I live in CO. I receive a mail-in vote well before every election. We can mail it, we can drop it off in a box in a secure location or we can go to the polls. My ballot is verified electronically via my signature. I think every state should follow Colorado's model.
 
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jamesrage said:
Show your voter registration card
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I never show my voter registration card, don't even have one anymore. I tried to show ID when I moved and used a new polling place, they told me to put it away they could not look at it.
 
noonereal said:
I never show my voter registration card, don't even have one anymore. I tried to show ID when I moved and used a new polling place, they told me to put it away they could not look at it.
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I think if gun stores just asked for your name with no proof of who you are then I think the anti-2nd amendment crowd would be screaming you're making it easy for criminals to get guns.
 
jamesrage said:
Voting is already easy. You show up to your assigned polling place on election day. Show your voter registration card and in states with common sense you also show your state issued ID seeing how your voter registration is just a crappy piece of card stock that took no identification to get. The poll worker hands you a ballot and you go vote.
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Except in the majority Hispanic Kansas town of Dodge City, Kansas where the state GOP ensured there was just one polling place and it was out of the city limits. Or how in major cities across the country, state GOP officials will have far fewer voting machines per capita than in majority white areas, ensuring long lines to vote in the city.

The problem is that the Republican Party doesn't want to compete for minority votes, instead it just wants to make it harder for those minorities to vote. As many elections have slim margins, everything they can do to make it a pain in the ass to vote in minority areas, makes a difference.
 
jamesrage said:
I think if gun stores just asked for your name with no proof of who you are then I think the anti-2nd amendment crowd would be screaming you're making it easy for criminals to get guns.
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I can buy a gun without even giving my name
 
Mail-in ballots should be available to all registered voters.

Early voting should be available to all registered voters.

Election Day should be a paid day off national holiday, on a Friday, and in-person polling places should be open to all registered voters from that Friday through Sunday, making “Election Day” an “Election Weekend”.

That’s a start.
 
jamesrage said:
1.)Voting is already easy.
2.) You show up to your assigned polling place on election day.
3.) Show your voter registration card and in states with common sense, you also show your state issued ID seeing how your voter registration is just a crappy piece of card stock that took no identification to get. The poll worker hands you a ballot and you go vote.
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1.) except for the fact for many its not
2.) if its not closed and moved, if you can be from work that day(have a sitter etc)
3.) unless there were stupid rules made above and beyond just normal ID and your state-issued ID is not an exact match name wise . . jr . . sr . . middle initial. recently married etc etc

Fact is in many places, for many individuals its not "easy"
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Except in the majority Hispanic Kansas town of Dodge City, Kansas where the state GOP ensured there was just one polling place and it was out of the city limits. Or how in major cities across the country, state GOP officials will have far fewer voting machines per capita than in majority white areas, ensuring long lines to vote in the city.

The problem is that the Republican Party doesn't want to compete for minority votes, instead it just wants to make it harder for those minorities to vote. As many elections have slim margins, everything they can do to make it a pain in the ass to vote in minority areas, makes a difference.
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Then the issue is that more polling places need to be open on election day. Media attention other than die hard leftist media should bring attention to the public about the lack of polling places in some districts on election day. If you live in a state with voter initiatives then you can get a petition going to increase the number of polling places on election day and a way to pay for it.
 
jamesrage said:
I think if gun stores just asked for your name with no proof of who you are then I think the anti-2nd amendment crowd would be screaming you're making it easy for criminals to get guns.
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Buying a gun is not equivalent to voting.
 
jamesrage said:
Then the issue is that more polling places need to be open on election day. Media attention other than die hard leftist media should bring attention to the public about the lack of polling places in some districts on election day. If you live in a state with voter initiatives then you can get a petition going to increase the number of polling places on election day and a way to pay for it.
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It is not that simple. There needs to be more than one day to vote when you have millions, tens of millions in some places voting. And there needs to be longer times because not everyone works the same hours, can make those hours off to vote.
 
I’ve always found it easy. Inconvenient to wait in lines but I do that at other places like the BMV.

This year because of the pandemic I voted via mail in ballot. That was a pain in the ass.
 
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