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How would voting by mail improve things? That doesn't force people to become informed. [/quote]

Time. Voting by mail gives you the time to look things up and research. At the ballot box, you just want to fill in the circles and get out.[/quote]

[b]That's silly. You get a ballot ahead of time in the mail either way.[/b] You can research it at your leisure and bring it with you. If the initiatives were news to you when you got into the voting station, that's your own fault. [/quote]

Agree.  I filled out my ballot at home while researching the candidates and the initiatives.  I brought the "cheat sheet" into the polls with me and just copied my responses.[/quote]

I've been voting since 1983.  I've been doing this (filling in the sample ballot and copying at the polling station) since about 1990.  Nowadays, I spend the 2-4 nights before election day looking up candidates and ballot questions on the Internet and reading, then filling it in.  I like having several days to research and then getting in and out quickly.

Additionally, the last 3 even numbered years, I go and vote around 9:30-10 AM and then go to work late, so that I don't have to wait in lines.  The morning rush clears out around 9AM and so I rarely spend more than 10 minutes there.  This year the attendance was more like a presidential year than a mid-term and there was an actual wait at 10:30.  I was still in and out in 20 minutes.[/quote]

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