Democrats vote on Wednesday.
AZ has a liberal absentee voting policy. Easy to qualify for an absentee ballot.
In Texas, seniors are allowed to vote by absentee ballot, and I no longer vote on election day.
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.
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!
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.
They already get to vote early in many places. And, yes, they WILL cheat when they are Democrats.
Most areas have several days of early voting don’t they?
If so they have plenty of days to do so.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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”???
I do not doubt your good intentions, but I am absolutely against this.
All voting should occur on one single day, in person, on paper ballots, except by those who legitimately qualify for Absentee voting. Absentee ballots fix any issues about physical limitations, military duty, etc. Adding a day here and there opens the door to extending it to a week, then a month. Extra days facilitate fraud. I prefer that all in-person voters should have to sign in with a thumbprint, using ink that will last several days, to prevent multiple voting.
Can’t for the life of me figure out how ONE DAY to vote was sufficient for many, many years and now it has to be messed with! Seemed to work just fine. Don’t tell me it’s because people “work”.... Good grief! I worked for 50+ years and didn’t find voting a problem. There seems to be no end to CHANGING things which aren’t necessary and we are expected to accept without complaint!
Insofar as many seniors tend to vote conservative, they’d have those votes pre sorted, and more easily “displaced” when the counting happens.
So, I’m against all “special” voting except for absentee balloting for servicemen and women.
Every exception is an opportunity for cheating.
They’re already allowed to vote in both New York and Florida.