General Electile Dysfunction: an election that lasts longer than 4 days is a serious medical problem

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ThatOneDude

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You might find this interesting @Splinty

Postal service warns nearly every state it may not be able to deliver ballots in time based on current election rules

I apologize for the source ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude I'm using it because it came up first on the Googles, and the biased media from the other side of the aisle (Fox news) is reporting the same story so I gave it a pass.
Not OK.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Not OK.
I already explained why I allowed it. If you read the article there's a very heavy bias away from the nuts and bolts of the story to give it a political slant.
 

ThatOneDude

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I already explained why I allowed it. If you read the article there's a very heavy bias away from the nuts and bolts of the story to give it a political slant.
I'm sorry, but your explanation has not been accepted by the fact/bias/fake news checkers.
 

ThatOneDude

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I agree
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Register, bring ID, and fill out ballot doesn’t seem all that difficult.
Maybe it's not for you. Maybe it isn't for people in poorer areas who don't have transportation, or lost their jobs and can't get around, or are immune compromised, or are quarantined due to the pandemic, or a number of other reason why it may be difficult for someone to get there to vote. Just because someone isn't able to get to the poll doesn't mean their vote is any less important.
 
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I agree
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Register, bring ID, and fill out ballot doesn’t seem all that difficult.

Everybody should have the ability to mail in their ballot which is already allowed. It's already a thing and if the system can't handle an unprecedented need in that preferred legal response, the electoral system vis-a-vis the USPS should be increasingly funded with those resources to maintain our election and democracy. To turn a blind eye to this or intentionally undercut it is a failure of the federal government and one of their few intrinsic and explicit duties.
 
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Maybe it's not for you. Maybe it isn't for people in poorer areas who don't have transportation, or lost their jobs and can't get around, or are immune compromised, or are quarantined due to the pandemic, or a number of other reason why it may be difficult for someone to get there to vote. Just because someone isn't able to get to the poll doesn't mean their vote is any less important.

I voted for Trump from Iraq by mail.
 

MMAHAWK

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Everybody should have the ability to mail in their ballot which is already allowed. It's already a thing and if the system can't handle an unprecedented need in that preferred legal response, the electoral system vis-a-vis the USPS should be increasingly funded with those resources to maintain our election and democracy. To turn a blind eye to this or intentionally undercut it is a failure of the federal government and one of their few intrinsic and explicit duties.
Do you believe you should have to request a mail in?
Do you think you should have to register?
 
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Do you believe you should have to request a mail in?
Do you think you should have to register?
I don't see why I should have to request a mail in. Shouldn't just be simple too put in your precinct and download a form to fill out?. Feel free to educate me. I have only done a mail in ballot once I'm hardly an expert on the situation. What I will say is that our current voting system is old and antiquated and sucks regardless.

I exist and I'm a citizen and voting is an inherent right of everyone. So why exactly are there so many steps that I can't just show up to vote on election day? Other rights are ordained by my existing only. So outside of technical validating, There shouldn't be any steps. And those pragmatic required steps should be minimal and getting better all the time as we get better technology.

I think that registration should be automatic for all the above reasons. Again I'm not totally sure why I have some cut off ahead of time when I can show up and prove my identity and still can't do same-day registration/voting. What exactly occurs in that registration process that technology or otherwise couldn't solve with me standing there holding two forms ID. That is, what's preventing instant registration? Pure laziness and intentional barriers in my opinion.

Regardless, skipping all of that. I wasn't talking about changing anything other than capacity. Mail in ballots are a thing with an existing process and an unprecedentedly high number of them are expected to go around. The system should be preparing for that higher than usual number and flexing increased capacity, and that means funding, from the federal government to provide that capacity.