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  • #31
    So the problem is that with COVID, people don't want to congregate in large numbers as can happen at the voting stations, and furthermore there are worries about delays causing people to wait in line for a really long time. And if, as some claim, mail-in voting isn't a good solution to this, why are they not getting on what seems to be a rather obvious alternate solution?

    That solution is this: Make the polls be open for a whole lot longer. They're open just on election day? Make them be open for a full week beforehand. This would result in a dramatic drop in how many people are at the polls at any given time because they'd all be split up among the different days, plus it'd make the actual voting process faster because there would be fewer people at each location at any given time. It seems like it would go a long way to solving the problem but without the "problems" that mail-in ballots supposedly do. Why aren't those skeptical of mail-in voting trying to push this as an alternative?

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Terraceth View Post
      Why aren't those skeptical of mail-in voting trying to push this as an alternative?
      I suspect, but can't prove, that the actual goal is to depress voter turnout among voters less likely to vote. Highly engaged voters are likely to vote no matter what, but presenting extra barriers can have strategic value if one does not trust that bloc of voters.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Terraceth View Post
        So the problem is that with COVID, people don't want to congregate in large numbers as can happen at the voting stations, and furthermore there are worries about delays causing people to wait in line for a really long time. And if, as some claim, mail-in voting isn't a good solution to this, why are they not getting on what seems to be a rather obvious alternate solution?

        That solution is this: Make the polls be open for a whole lot longer. They're open just on election day? Make them be open for a full week beforehand. This would result in a dramatic drop in how many people are at the polls at any given time because they'd all be split up among the different days, plus it'd make the actual voting process faster because there would be fewer people at each location at any given time. It seems like it would go a long way to solving the problem but without the "problems" that mail-in ballots supposedly do. Why aren't those skeptical of mail-in voting trying to push this as an alternative?
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        • #34
          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
          ... but presenting extra barriers can have strategic value if one does not trust that bloc of voters.
          Right out of Putin's playbook...

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          • #35
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
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