[Political Junkie Too]

I'm all for absentee voting when there truly are circumstances when a voter can't get to the polls on Election Day.

I am not for absentee voting to make it easier for people to vote.

I think that it is not asking too much of a citizen to get off his/her butt once a year to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.

I also think that there are two opposing forces at work:

• After the fiasco in Florida in 2000, many states put lots of money into improving the voting technology to make voting at the polls modernized, more accurate, and easy to understand in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the election mess that happened.
• At the same time, the states are making it easier to stay home and vote absentee.

Where's the sense in that?

-PJ

[A Navy Vet]

"I am not for absentee voting to make it easier for people to vote. I think that it is not asking too much of a citizen to get off his/her butt once a year to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.

I absolutely agree with your position. However, your deployed military is an absentee voter and we need to ensure the system doesn't penalize or in any way hamper those Americans from having their say! The military and Postal Service have certain arcane restrictions, so we need to revise specific statues so as to ensure their rightful participation. I'm sure you agree that is only fair.