How about when you work here:
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or here:
A thousand miles or more from home for 2 to 4 weeks at a time?
Posted on 11/07/2014 9:59:56 AM PST by C19fan
When the 113th Congress returns next week for its lame-duck session, a senator with a very secure seat — and presidential aspirations — will be filing a bill to make Election Day a national holiday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a reason for the legislation, the “Democracy Day Act of 2014,” is low voter turnout on Tuesday.
Sanders said his home state, which had a gubernatorial race, only had 43.7 percent voter turnout, the lowest on record. The United States Elections Project at the University of Florida estimated nationwide turnout at 36.6 percent, the senator noted, with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.
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100% with you on that!
This sanders guy is a freak and a weirdo. If people don’;t give enough of a cr** to vote, then they shouldn’t vote. All the bum wants to do is give the lazy more holidays.
How about when you work here:
or here:
A thousand miles or more from home for 2 to 4 weeks at a time?
I have voted "early" (usually the last Saturday in October) for about the last 10 years, because it's more convenient than voting on Tuesday. I know all about tough jobs in odd places, prior to the last 10 years I voted absentee regularly because my job.
I STILL oppose easy "early voting" on principle.
"Absentee ballots" should be severely restricted to deployed military personnel and the like who are physically prevented from being anywhere near their polling place on Election Day. That's not what modern "early voting" is all about. Modern early voting is all about making life easier for the lazy.
Frankly, I never heard tell of the length of time, early voting, mail-in voting, absentee voting, on and on and on....if anyone wanted to vote, the time frame would never be an issue in America. Heck, you can even wait ‘til your dead.
As implied in #84, I’d give those guys an absentee ballot, same as deployed military.
Bingo!! My thoughts exactly. The progressive think people are robots that you can simply program.
Agreed. If you have to come up with a bunch of ideas to get people to the polls, those are the people who should not be voting anyway.
Back at you.
I start work before the polls open. I've had voting days not go as planned. I lost my chance to vote that day.
I vote early, because I see voting as my responsibility and duty. I'm not looking for convenience; (although I like it) I do it to not have my career possible block it, again.
And my daughter 9 hours away at college, should she lose her right to vote in her home town elections? She turned 18 this year and saw voting as both a right and a privilege. If it was a little less convenient to fill out the paper work early to request a ballot by mail, and get is sent back in time, she was still glad to be able to do it.
“The United States Elections Project at the University of Florida estimated nationwide turnout at 36.6 percent, the senator noted, with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.”
The two groups with the lowest employment rates didn’t show up to vote?
/facepalm
I’ve lost my chance to vote because the problems of the day took us working past 12 hours. I don’t take that chance anymore. I vote early, to be sure I get the chance to vote.
Bingo.
I think they are going to go one better and make voting MANDATORY as they do in Australia.
“Because a lot of people would take Monday off creating a four day weekend and leaving town.”
Excellent point.
We have days when things just. don’t. go. right. in the upstream end, too. I have voted absentee more often than not in the past 20 years.
No, I'm not going to post a pretty picture of what my job is ... I'll just point out that I have missed more than one (primary) election that I thought surely I'd be in town for but then I got that damn phone call ... and had to pack my bags for someplace else.
It happens.
It doesn't change my opinion of "early voting", as currently practiced.
After I missed once, I never waited for the last day to vote ever again.
I’ll fight hard to keep that available.
I agree with absentee voting by mail.
I don't agree that we need a holiday to vote!
No, I haven’t. But I have had 70-hour workweeks and long commutes. Four years ago I was out of town for work during the week of the election, but I had enough notice to take advantage of early voting. I understand your point — but it would also seem that most of the people you mention could be accommodated by early voting or absentee voting or mail-in voting. In any case, the ones you site are the hard cases, and don’t account for the half to two-thirds of eligible voters who regularly fail to vote at all.
“Democracy”? The United States is not a “Democracy”.
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