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What does working have to do with it?

Polls are open at 7 am and close at 8pm. Everyone gets a lunch hour. There are sick days, family leave days and personal days at many workplaces.

I purposely stopped scheduling vacations that coincided w/elections after 2000.

Responsibility lies with the voter. I see no litigation in this, personally.

I run 2 businesses, one with hourly appointments and one with shipments that are often on deadline. I am over 60. I am a volunteer. I cannot tell you the excuses I hear for not voting ("I thought others would vote the way I would, so I didn't bother") or working ("I am retired and have luncheons and card parties to attend"; "I have to attend the church meatball dinner") I am not making this up and I am talking about county GOP members.

My volunteers are mostly people in their 20s (work and kids)who are turned off by the local Party and former Dems who are terrified of the left from personal experience.

Get up early, vote late, skip lunch,take a personal day, lose a couple of hours income or lose your country. Seems a no-brainer to me.

Why wait this late to check on your ballot? Once every 2 years we get a say in who our officials, our laws and our representatives are. Once every 4 years we get to decide the President and a Senator. Why would we schedule travel for those days? If it is so unavoidable that we know enough in advance to request an absentee ballot, why wait until 10 days out to check? Why hang on the phone for half an hour and why do that more than once? They can get their butts down to the clerk's office and fill out an absentee in person. I have done that 4 times in my life.

Get up early, vote late, skip lunch,take a personal day, lose a couple of hours income or lose your country. Seems a no-brainer to me.

As recently as 1992, in Pennsylvania, you had to give a reason for your absentee ballot request when you sent it to the County Clerk's office, or the request could be denied.

Voting is not difficult, nor inconvenient -- especially not in a Presidential election year. I've put more effort into returning a rented video than I've put into voting, and I've voted on election day in every election (primary, general, and school board) for the past 12 years.

The only reason to vote absentee is if you are in the military or working out of town for an extended period of time. Otherwise, just go to the poll and get it over with.