Being against having many options to let your vote be heard is very anti-American.
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States rights. Trump can go lick assholes.
Ones with bloody diarrhea
Only the best ones.
Republican-run states will cave
Latest reports say he's looking into changing the constitution to enable a third term, or at least pretending he'll changed it.
Sure thing. Make election day a federal holiday and allow for mail in ballots.
Honestly I never understood the push for this. Maybe it's because I grew up around people who never had federal holidays off. Tons of people still need to work on federal holidays. What makes way more sense to me would be not having a single "Election Day." Make it Election Week, everywhere, all the time.
Yeah there's no point. Just make all elections mail-in, then people can vote at their convenience.
All of the above.
Colorado has early voting, mail-in voting, and places to drop off your filled-out ballot.
It's absolutely beautiful.
If you want to stand in-line the day of, you can do that, too. I've done that a few times, many years ago, and I think my longest wait was maybe 15 minutes, but that was out in the burbs, too.
In Canada, your employer must give you 5 hours to go vote on election day. So in most cases, you either start work after 12pm or finish before 4pm. They could also give you 5 hours mid-day, but that's just tedious and not worth the trouble in most cases.
https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2024/10/time-off-to-vote-8-facts-employers-should-know.aspx
Our patchwork of state laws makes it a clusterfuck. Also, even if employees should have protected time, it doesn't prevent a shitty boss from using it as a pretext to fire you for something else that isn't protected.
Nobody does this, in my experience.
Its one of the oversites in the constitution in my opinion. It should have stated that all federal elections are federal holidays and congress is empowered to determine additional ones or something like that.
The coward really can't stand the thought of a fair contest, can he?
No early voting! No late voting! No mail-in voting! No black voting! No gay voting! No brown voting! No veterans voting!
Fuck it, only JD Vance votes! Unless he votes for himself, and then it's massive voter fraud!
Too late. Already voted.
Have they sent them out? Haven't seen anything
Edit: found it still in delivery at https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/
You should have received your ballot by now, if you opted for mail-in. Call your local registrar of voters to make sure that they sent it, or else just go in on election day to do it.
They have indeed! You should be receiving countless emails and texts from the SOS as well (kind of love that California pushes people to actually vote).
That's fucking weird that I haven't received anything
We went to the local voting location that offered advance polling. Did it in person.
He needs everybody to vote at polling places on the same day so his ICE thugs can round up antifa. They can’t do that if people are voting by mail or voting early.
And also close half the polling places without notice, and stop accepting new votes after 8pm even if there are still people in line.
He has a system for rigging voting machines but not envelopes
Probably wants all votes on one day to better rig the elections.
What I hate so very much is that there is even a chance this asshole's wishes have influence on how we conduct elections anywhere in this country.
He can go fuck himself.
My fear is to is to have a single day election they could use national guard or something on blue counties to make it much harder to vote, like make special operations on the day of election and create grid locks on that counties.
No mail in votes? That means your increasing access to in person voting, right? RIGHT!?
I’ve filled out my mail-in ballot but I’m seriously considering physically voting on November 4th instead of mailing it in.
As a white California resident I don’t feel I’ll be targeted by the racist “watchers” but I am worried about my mail-in vote being nullified.
maybe in a red county in cali, but they are less rabid than the ones red states.
You haven't been in some of those red-dirt, cousin-marryin' mountain counties if you think they're any less rabid. I have family up there and they're no different than other family members who are heavily armed preppers holed up in the Idaho mountains with big stockpiles of canned goods and 12-gauge shells.
He can demand all he wants, the federal government doesn't get to decide how elections work.
The 2020 election claims are how they intend on pushing the third term shit.
"No early voting! You have to go on election day and stand in line for 27 hours! No votes after election day can be counted! Oh we're also removing funding for poll locations, and we're limiting cities to one site for all ballot casting. Only cities though. Rural areas in red states are taking the funding and we're allowing all church going Christian Republicans two weeks to vote and we'll hand deliver their ballots."
It is easier to intimidate voters when they gather in one place on one day. It’s just good time management!
🤮(these fucking people..)
People, whoever can. Please don't mail in vote if possible. They're sabotaging mail in voting by hurting the post office and sometimes the mail itself. If you can, vote in person
California has very good tools for tracking the status of your ballots. The USPS is also independently funded as a Constitutionally guaranteed service, so it’s relatively safe.
The reason they want to end mail-in and early voting is because it allows them to restrict access, intimidate voters, tamper with equipment, lose ballots, and all manner of other crimes. All voting should be done by mail as it limits their opportunities for engaging in fraud and crime. There is a reason they have been attacking it.
Oh sure, the constitution, that is totally meaningful. Yep. The Trump administration would never violate the constitution.
Safe? They've been destroying mail machines and slowing service. It's a "they have already and continue to do" not they might.
Mail in voting allows them to lose ballots. Often even more readily than in person because it doesn't require election officials being in on it.
Voting by mail is not somehow magically more secure than voting in person.
I opt for the mail-in ballot and then drop it off at my county auditor in-person.
"People don't even use the mail in voting anymore, we might as well get rid of it."
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