On 10/23/2020 11:09 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 10/23/20 11:56 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Ed Pawlowski writes:
On 10/23/2020 12:08 PM, Alexandria Reed wrote:
On Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 4:57:32 AM UTC+1, Bod wrote:
A fierce battle over who should vote and how has sparked hundreds of
lawsuits and prompted accusations of voter suppression. So what are
the
barriers to voting and why do they exist?

Images of the long queues of early voters were both celebrated as a
sign
of enthusiasm and criticised as evidence of a creaking electoral
system.

Queues, restrictive voting laws and limited access to polling stations
all keep people from participating in the democratic process, says
Andrea Hailey, the CEO of Vote.org, a non-partisan non-profit that
aims
to use technology to help people register to vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54240651

I agree with this report, it's strange that something so basic as
casting a vote should be made so difficult for voters.

I've been voting for over 50 years.Â* Never found it difficult.

Well, you are but one of 350 million citizens.Â* It's not hard to believe
that not everyone is as privilged as you have been.


Â* You
register, you go to the polling place and vote.Â* Now I vote by mail.

When the only polling place is 50 miles away, and you don't
have a car, and your state won't allow you to absentee vote,
then what do you do?



Long lines?Â* Sure, if a lot of people show up at the same time.Â* Never
had to wait more than a few minutes.

And if there is only one polling place in a town with 100,000
residents...

Â*Â*Â* I wonder if it's really harder to vote than it has been in the
past.Â* There have
been pictures on the internet of long lines.Â* Hasn't it been the same in
the past?


We are still quite a time from the election. At least now, most places,
everyone doesn't have to vote one workday.