Why not a mail-in ballot? Mail-in absentee ballots have been used for years with no problems. The fragile cons lose and all of sudden things have to change? I don't think so. I also don't think Covid-19 should be used as an excuse for healthy people still to use the mail-in ballot, but it was reasonable during a highly contagious and deadly pandemic before a vaccine.
Which is not a problem with mail in voting. Good point.
Sorry, YOU FOLKS are making the excuses. Imagine denying service personal overseas the right to vote. The elderly. The infirm. US citizens working abroad. Ex-pats.
The cons will be filling that role, because they've intimidated and threatened anyone else form doing it. Be prepared for an actual rigged election from the cons in some areas at least.
Channe79 just threw it out there with no depth of thought, stupid is as stupid does.
And here you are admitting your real goal. Stopping as many people from the left from voting as possible. Everything else is you just fashioning tangential excuses as to why it should happen.
If we only had day of, in person voting, and if we moved the voting age up to 25, the country would much more red.
Yup. And automatic registration for citizens as they come of age.
Really stupid idea. None of your “reasons” justifies the notion.
This is getting into the territory of very childish reasoning.
Just to give you a case of the sadz.
Waters down the process?
So you literally just want to suppress votes from people you don't like?
I say none of those are good reasons. Not a single one.
Because we have decided, as a country, that 18 is the age where we will send our young adults to die for this country and to enter into legal contracts, so they're also allowed to vote.
If people change their minds from day to day, they can from hour to hour
True but it would rarely change anyone minds and the same could be said if the voting day was moved up or back by even 1 day.
No, it isn't
So you think people should be disenfranchised? What about someone who has an urgent medical procedure scheduled for voting day? Just F*** their health and vote or disenfranchise them? there are a myriad of reasons why someone can't vote in person on election day.
Yes, and early voting requires effort as well
Why?
Ok but it doesnt mean early voting shouldn't exist
That you have given no good reason to support your idea
I have no link, but I can tell you that in Maine back when Libby Mitchell was going up against Paul Lepage, we had an independent running and there were a lot of people that voted early for Libby, an about a week before the election it looked like the tide was turning to elect the independent candidate. There are a lot of folks that wished they could have gone back and voted for him instead to keep LePage out of office. But admittedly that is antidotal, at best. Mr. LePage was our Gov for two terms and never got 50% of the vote due to 3rd party candidates.
If we want to raise the age of maturity to 25, fine.
Uh oh. You've done it now. If they won't raise the age for purchasing assault weapons, why raise it for voting?
We get it.
