There’s no reason for “extended voting” as long as you can vote once you’re in line. The only “problem” that extended voting allows is for more buses to show up — and that has nothing to do with their computer problem earlier.
just takes one liberal judge...
All this talk about voting times reminds me about an interesting story of my youth.
It was Ronald Reagan. Only at the time I did NOT like Ronald Reagan, was a very, very stupid liberal, about 20 years old or so. That’s about 46 years ago.
Voting day was on Tuesday, even back then. I worked in the payroll department of Western Electric, a subsidiary of AT&T back in the day. On Mondays we got time cards. On Mondays and Tuesdays we coded the “assignment” cards for such as overtime pay, etc, then turned them in at the end of Tuesday to data processing to generate the paychecks.
We had to be at work at 8:00 in the am. We were told, brusquely, that it would be expected that payroll will stay around until all the assignment cards were coded, even if until late at night.
So I complained.
Who, me?
First, we had to be at work BEFORE the polls opened. The polls might have opened at 8 am but we had to be sitting at our desk at that time.
Second, if we had to work late that Tuesday until all payroll assignment cards turned in, who’s to say we would make it out of there in time before the polls close?
It’s not like we could run out and vote at lunch or anything in that many of us....MOST of us, lived too far away for that and you had to vote in your own precinct.
Heh.
So management had a big meeting and they decided that EVERYONE in payroll would be allowed to come in late, that we would be expected to vote then come in to work. This way we would not have to worry about working late. As it turned out, we got all the payroll done by normal quitting time and were allowed to leave. But we’d already voted and got about an hour from the company, free time.
Heh.
I am/was so proud of myself......nowadays I suppose the company might tell us to do that early voting thing, another dumb idea if you ask me.