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?
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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