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kane · 05-14-2014, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Robbie

kane...we are badly in debt. Federal debt is $17 trillion, $90 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Most city, county, and states are struggling with debt and budgets.

I'm not saying that an absentee ballot should be affected one way or another because I don't know.

But I am saying that we are NOT the richest country on Earth. We are actually number "7" on the list (Qatar is the richest).
We are however number "1" for debt. (yay! USA! USA! We're number ONE!) lol

As far as "early voting"...I kind of wondered about that. I could have sworn that I had NEVER heard of such a thing until recently. And I was right!

I googled it. And it appears to be a local govt. choice? It appears to not have existed until 1994 and was never really used strategically by any campaign until the Obama Campaign figured out how to use it to their advantage in 2009.

Pretty interesting stuff. And now people think it's some kind of rights that they've always had! lol

Early voting is apparently not very well regulated yet and subject to...you guessed it: fraud.

Just thought it was interesting after I just googled it.
I KNEW I had never heard of that until recent years.

Can you just imagine our parents and grandparent's whining about "early voting" being cut down to "only" a few days? Lol!
Voting ALWAYS happened on one day...the Tuesday after the first Monday in November (except absentee balloting...which is really for American's living overseas and/or military overseas).

I guess these "poor" "minorities" need us to hold their hands, not ask for an ID, and give them a few weeks to vote.

My mom was born in 1940. When she was old enough to vote in 1958 the US had about 170 million people in it. Today we have around 320 million. The population has almost doubled. It makes sense that we need to make some kind of arrangements to allow for all these people to vote. In many cities it is 3-5 hour wait in line to vote.

Vote by mail makes the most sense. Montana recently considered it and even though it was shown that it would save the state 2 million dollars per election, they decided to not to do it because they had "concerns." You can determine for yourself what those concerns are. I think it is because the state is slowly threatening to turn blue and vote by mail might help move that along some.

Do we have a ton of debt? Without question. Can we afford to keep the polls open a few extra days every 2 years? Without question. Let's just do this. During election years lets curb the amount of money we give other countries by enough to cover to cost of keeping the polls open a few extra days. Problem solved.

We should be doing everything in our power to make sure everyone who wants to vote can get to polls.