Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I'm not OK with it. It ALL needs to be clamped down on regardless of who it helps/hurts.
If you believe your vote is important, then get to the polls. Outside of being bed ridden or out of town, there are very few other excuses. If you think it's an inconvenience, then too bad.
Many people work and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many people have elder or child care and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many places have limited the number of polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
Many places have limited the number of voting booths in their polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
I could go on, but it is BS, because you like to think everyone fits into some perfect box.
This one is huge. When Virginia first allowed voting on other days ahead of time, they made you have a very specific reason (which were only a couple of things like being out of town on election day). I went and the guy in front of me, an elderly gentleman was told he didn't qualify even though he said he had to take care of grandchildren all day and would not be able to make it on election day. I was livid. He was disenfranchised.
Thankfully Virginia has changed and anyone can vote early and now you can vote mail in as well. People do get a clue, but as Winston Churchill said, "you can count on the Americans to make the right decision after they have exhausted all the other options."
Correction dp, old guy was not disenfranchised. He could vote in the regular polling day. He still got to vote, he just had to abide by...the rules.
So, why did the WH press secretary get to mail in her vote 11 times ?
Don’t know, did you ask her?
I can't personally since I don't know her but the the press did, to which she responded that Trump is not against people voting by mail if they cannot be there, llike Trump and her.
IMO, trying to shelter in place is a reason that they can't be there, or living too far from the nearest polling place and not having the means or time to get there to vote in time is also a reason why the person cannot be there. But apparently, to those who live in a bubble and have the means/time to get to a polling place being poor and living really far to a polling place is no excuse to not be able to vote in person.
I have been voting by mail for several election cycles even though I do have the means and time to get to a polling place. I even voted for some Rs long ago by mail. I didn't hear Rs complaining about my vote by mail back then when I voted for some Rs. No one questioned if my vote was fraudulent.
I just prefer voting by mail and not having to stand in line, and especially now with covid, I prefer not having to be in enclosed spaces with other people if I don't have to.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I'm not OK with it. It ALL needs to be clamped down on regardless of who it helps/hurts.
If you believe your vote is important, then get to the polls. Outside of being bed ridden or out of town, there are very few other excuses. If you think it's an inconvenience, then too bad.
Many people work and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many people have elder or child care and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many places have limited the number of polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
Many places have limited the number of voting booths in their polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
I could go on, but it is BS, because you like to think everyone fits into some perfect box.
This one is huge. When Virginia first allowed voting on other days ahead of time, they made you have a very specific reason (which were only a couple of things like being out of town on election day). I went and the guy in front of me, an elderly gentleman was told he didn't qualify even though he said he had to take care of grandchildren all day and would not be able to make it on election day. I was livid. He was disenfranchised.
Thankfully Virginia has changed and anyone can vote early and now you can vote mail in as well. People do get a clue, but as Winston Churchill said, "you can count on the Americans to make the right decision after they have exhausted all the other options."
Correction dp, old guy was not disenfranchised. He could vote in the regular polling day. He still got to vote, he just had to abide by...the rules.
So, why did the WH press secretary get to mail in her vote 11 times ?
Don’t know, did you ask her?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I'm not OK with it. It ALL needs to be clamped down on regardless of who it helps/hurts.
If you believe your vote is important, then get to the polls. Outside of being bed ridden or out of town, there are very few other excuses. If you think it's an inconvenience, then too bad.
Many people work and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many people have elder or child care and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many places have limited the number of polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
Many places have limited the number of voting booths in their polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
I could go on, but it is BS, because you like to think everyone fits into some perfect box.
This one is huge. When Virginia first allowed voting on other days ahead of time, they made you have a very specific reason (which were only a couple of things like being out of town on election day). I went and the guy in front of me, an elderly gentleman was told he didn't qualify even though he said he had to take care of grandchildren all day and would not be able to make it on election day. I was livid. He was disenfranchised.
Thankfully Virginia has changed and anyone can vote early and now you can vote mail in as well. People do get a clue, but as Winston Churchill said, "you can count on the Americans to make the right decision after they have exhausted all the other options."
Correction dp, old guy was not disenfranchised. He could vote in the regular polling day. He still got to vote, he just had to abide by...the rules.
So, why did the WH press secretary get to mail in her vote 11 times ?
Don’t know, did you ask her?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I'm not OK with it. It ALL needs to be clamped down on regardless of who it helps/hurts.
If you believe your vote is important, then get to the polls. Outside of being bed ridden or out of town, there are very few other excuses. If you think it's an inconvenience, then too bad.
Many people work and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many people have elder or child care and cannot get to polls on a Tuesday.
Many places have limited the number of polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
Many places have limited the number of voting booths in their polling places causing long lines, hours long. How do you get to work when you are stuck in line for hours?
I could go on, but it is BS, because you like to think everyone fits into some perfect box.
This one is huge. When Virginia first allowed voting on other days ahead of time, they made you have a very specific reason (which were only a couple of things like being out of town on election day). I went and the guy in front of me, an elderly gentleman was told he didn't qualify even though he said he had to take care of grandchildren all day and would not be able to make it on election day. I was livid. He was disenfranchised.
Thankfully Virginia has changed and anyone can vote early and now you can vote mail in as well. People do get a clue, but as Winston Churchill said, "you can count on the Americans to make the right decision after they have exhausted all the other options."
Correction dp, old guy was not disenfranchised. He could vote in the regular polling day. He still got to vote, he just had to abide by...the rules.
So, why did the WH press secretary get to mail in her vote 11 times ?