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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo
so you'd really rather disenfranchise people??  |
While everyone has the right to vote, there's a certain degree of responsibility involved. There are a ton of ways to ensure your vote is taken regardless of your circumstance. The easiest is to get an absentee ballot (I usually get one in the mail anyway), fill it out and take it to a mail box at your convenience.
- If you don't have access to a campaign center, you can get the material sent to you via online gov't sites.
- If you don't have access to the internet, you can use a public library.
- If you don't have access to a library, you can vote early in the morning.
- If you can't vote early in the morning, you can use the state statute to take off work to vote.
- If you are worried about losing your job and leaving early, you can go vote after your job.
If you don't have access to the internet, don't live next to a library or campaign center, can't vote early in the morning, can't take off work (even for your hour lunch), can't vote after work and don't know how to use the postal service to mail an early ballot, you just may not have the chance to vote and I guess you will be disenfranchised
I would much rather exclude the small percentage of people who really want to vote, but fall into the above situation (probably less than 1%) than make the election a 3-day "Tent sale" with used car salesmen getting as many uniformed people as possible into voting booths. I don't see how this country benefits from making every election the outcome of a random number generator.