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To: Don W

easy way to resolve those issue is to just open and close all polls simultaniously regardless of time zone.


37 posted on 11/12/2009 7:10:50 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
easy way to resolve those issue is to just open and close all polls simultaniously regardless of time zone.

1. The Constitution leaves decisions like those up to the states.
2. Doing that would favor one coast over another.

46 posted on 11/12/2009 7:51:00 AM PST by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

While possible, how practicable is that idea in nations covering as many time zones as ours do?

Canada: Nfld, East, Central, Mountain, Pacific.

USA: East, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska. That’s excluding the far Eastern territories and Diego Garcia, too.

The polls would be closing in NY at 10PM. while in AK it’s only 6 PM.

Hardly fair and equitable, nor does that give the Western vote the same weight as an Eastern vote, since with the polls open that much later, more folks out East would be more likely to cast their ballot.


54 posted on 11/12/2009 8:33:05 AM PST by Don W (I will praise Him.)
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