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ALLOW SENIORS TO VOTE A DAY EARLY

Posted on 12/13/2015 7:35:58 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Give them 8 hours on Monday to do their thing. They will not cheat like the libs. This will help eliminate long lines on Tuesday. Get rid of the 30 day early voting period-it equals fraud. Last include the military and wheel chair bound to vote on Monday. Show your I.D.


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1 posted on 12/13/2015 7:35:58 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Democrats vote on Wednesday.


2 posted on 12/13/2015 7:39:02 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: DIRTYSECRET

AZ has a liberal absentee voting policy. Easy to qualify for an absentee ballot.


3 posted on 12/13/2015 7:39:16 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

In Texas, seniors are allowed to vote by absentee ballot, and I no longer vote on election day.


4 posted on 12/13/2015 7:39:39 AM PST by Essie
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The best idea is for the Dems to vote on Wednesday. There will be free beer at the polls that day. Tell your Dem friends.


5 posted on 12/13/2015 7:39:41 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I could see merit in that. Seniors tend to vote very carefully and seriously, and it would be nice not to be rushed through the process. Besides that, voting is a serious ritual for a lot of seniors. Maybe we could all go vote and then PARTY ON for the rest of the day!


6 posted on 12/13/2015 7:41:20 AM PST by grania
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Haven’t the dems been pretty successful at terrifying them into thinking conservatives want to kick them to the curb?

i guess i’ll go look at some numbers. now i have to go type.


7 posted on 12/13/2015 7:43:56 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Are you saying we old folks hold up the line? As an old bag myself, I can tell you that's not necessarily true. I live in a town populated largely by seniors and the gimmedats. The ones who take forever to vote belong to the free stuff crowd.

For a lot of years, we had several small neighborhood polling places. Then it was decided to ditch all these polls in favor of one centralized location. This location has 2 dozen voting machines, whereas the smaller locations had maybe one or two machines and you had to wait in lines out the door. I've rarely encountered long lines at any election, even the presidential elections. When there is a line, it moves quickly.

8 posted on 12/13/2015 7:44:35 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They already get to vote early in many places. And, yes, they WILL cheat when they are Democrats.


9 posted on 12/13/2015 7:46:04 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Most areas have several days of early voting don’t they?
If so they have plenty of days to do so.


10 posted on 12/13/2015 7:47:17 AM PST by deport
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To: Don Corleone

it’s easy to get a bunch? hmmm...


11 posted on 12/13/2015 7:48:09 AM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Essie

I voted absentee once while recovering from a major illness Then I heard that those ballots aren’t always counted unless the election is too close to call. Now I vote in person, even if I have to be wheeled in on a gurney. I want my vote to count.


12 posted on 12/13/2015 7:50:27 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: DIRTYSECRET

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/absentee-and-early-voting.aspx

1.Early Voting: In 33 states and the District of Columbia, any qualified voter may cast a ballot in person during a designated period prior to Election Day. No excuse or justification is required.

2.Absentee Voting: All states will mail an absentee ballot to certain voters who request one. The voter may return the ballot by mail or in person. In 20 states, an excuse is required, while 27 states and the District of Columbia permit any qualified voter to vote absentee without offering an excuse. Some states offer a permanent absentee ballot list: once a voter asks to be added to the list, s/he will automatically receive an absentee ballot for all future elections.

3.Mail Voting: A ballot is automatically mailed to every eligible voter (no request or application is necessary), and the state does not use traditional precinct poll sites that offer in-person voting on Election Day. Three states use mail voting.


13 posted on 12/13/2015 7:50:43 AM PST by deport
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Nah.

I think the U.S. has been devolving too far into socialism since FDR. During the depression, I think it was worth it for the gov to step in to provide social assistance since the pre-depression benevolent societies dried up (funding mostly by upper middle class).

Problem is, the gov never got out of that racket. The gov realized they had a good thing going so as the depression ended, the social programs (and requisite taxes) did not.

So I actually believe all gov social programs should go away and back to charities. This includes social security and the later “brain child” medicare.

Pick an end date for social security and based on that date, figure out who’s paid what into it and pay out in proportion, without increasing taxes. Eventually everyone dies off. The ones paying in on the last day, might get a penny or two at the end.

If medicare charged the market-appropriate rates, it’d be a bit better (you’d still have a government, not consumer, driven market though which would drive up costs). However, when the gov picks what medicare rates to charge, they keep it too low because they don’t want to disturb the seniors.

So, since seniors, as a group, tend to vote in such a way as to perpetuate, not eliminate, these types of programs, I not only say no to making it easier for them to vote, I say HELL NO.

To fund these programs, younger folks have to work more and more to take home less and less. So as far as I’m concerned, if seniors have to “work” for their bread by dealing w/the polling stations like everyone else, that’s fine by me. If it’s too difficult, great, then they won’t be voting to perpetuate socialism.


14 posted on 12/13/2015 7:52:57 AM PST by fruser1
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To: smoothsailing

The dead vote early and often.


15 posted on 12/13/2015 7:56:01 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Essie

RATs go into retirement homes and offer to fill out the resident’s ballots. They’re equally as helpful to illegals by giving them pieces of paper showing them who to vote for and then giving them some walking around dinero.


16 posted on 12/13/2015 7:58:21 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ridiculous-— I for one travel so election days I may be out of town. Therefore I early vote on a day available. Works for me.


17 posted on 12/13/2015 8:13:32 AM PST by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Seniors die more often than the rest of the population.

So, if a senior votes on Monday, and is dead by Tuesday, won’t that be equivalent to a dead person voting?

I suppose the problem applies to the general population, where people who voted early might be dead by election day, and thus, many dead people will have been counted. The number of dead votes could be significant in certain local elections. Yeah, dead voters could be republican or democrats, but, should any of them be counted.

Chances are that, we’ll have more dead democrat voters than republicans. Heck, dead democrats coming out of the grave is a certainty, but, why allow the ‘recently’ dead voters to count?


18 posted on 12/13/2015 8:19:35 AM PST by adorno (w)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

If they can’t vote like the rest of us, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to vote and placed on a no fly list...


19 posted on 12/13/2015 8:20:02 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" 6Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I forgot to add:
“If I did agree to this idea, who wouod supply them with dog food and would someone drive them to the nearest cliff, where they will be launched into oblivion on a wheelchair”???


20 posted on 12/13/2015 8:22:37 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" 6Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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