"Voting is only from 9-4" and you have a real job. Let's not pretend this wouldn't immediately be taken advantage of in certain places where disenfranchisement is real.
replyGet an absentee ballot then. And I've never seen such limited hours in my lifetime. Usually it's 6am-6pm on election day. And many places now have early voting, you have 20-30 days to find a time to go vote.
replyThe federal government is trying to severely limit absentee voting as well.
replyAbsentee ballots are available at the county seat from 2:00pm to 3:15pm on the second Tuesday the month except in September and October if the county has less than 5 clerks available. Clerk allocations are based on property tax (pay for what you use). Congratulations poor and minority counties now can’t access absentee ballots.
replyThis sounds made up but limiting access to “free” services is not unheard of. This topic has been litigated to death. There are no new arguments. If you are in favor of voter ID laws you are simply ignorant.
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replyFunny, because I have the exact same thing to say to the legislators. Oh, it's too hard to get everyone voter ID? Too expensive? That's life; figure it out before passing your pointless security theater law[1]. Otherwise, we will do everything in our power to stop it.
reply[1] (Though mass disenfranchisement is almost certainly the actual purpose of the law, not security.)
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replyMaking things more difficult means fewer people will do it. It's foolish to insist that it's all or nothing. It's not about being capable, it's about marginal effects in large groups of people.
replyThat's not the same as "disenfranchised" or "taking voters off the rolls," as it gets talked about (see both of the sibling comments to yours).
replyIf they can't put up some minimal effort, what was their vote worth? I don't think the laziest folks probably vote in good policy.
Crazy people with extreme views vote in every single election. Sensible moderates with actual lives may decide that it's not worth the effort.
replyI'm not worried about lazy people voting. I'm worried about crazy people voting, and not having enough votes from sensible people to drown them out.