Discussion for article #227246
Republicans are so transparently not interested in actually being accountable to their employers.
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One of the first things I hope for when Hillary and her supermajority in congress are sworn in is to make voting simple and easy for every single American citizen. I’m fucking sick of Republicans winning because they jack with poor people.
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Right, TLQ. We need a system of voting that is fair and honest and that redresses the crimes of the past where GOP bosses simply made you work overtime on Tuesday. No more of this one odd day to vote bullshit.
I want a Constitutional amendment!
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Clearly the GOP is losing the war on women, medicaid expansion and voter suppression in the court of public opinion. The only remaining question, will the voters smack their hands to send a message to the Supreme Court.
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Oregon’s all-mail system is wonderful. Fill out the ballot on your own time. Drop it off or mail it (no postage needed) on your own time. No polling place antics. No one handing out literature while you wait in line. Hell, no lines at all (unless you’re waiting til the last minute to drop it off).
Forcing hundreds of millions of people to be processed through physical locations is so last century.
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Judges really matter - this example is rather circular in that a fair-minded judge is helping to preserve access to the voting booth.
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umm…using the mails is also kind of last century.
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cutbacks in early voting would disproportionately fall on African-Americans
Who would have ever guessed? Isn’t that the purpose of the the voter suppression laws in the first place?
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It’s about damn time some judge looked at these laws limiting early voting. How many people can get off work to stand in line to vote? Too many places, the GOP is trying to make it harder for people to vote by limiting voting days, hours and numbers of machines. It all hinges on who can wait in line for hours to vote.
I thought this was supposed to be the exceptional country.
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In other news, Ohio Attorney General Jon Husted is still trying to figure out a way to rig the 2012 presidential election.
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Hubby and I use absentee ballots here in San Francisco and it works just like described in Oregon. It really should be the national model not subject to whims of red state legislatures.
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It is a country of exceptional rhetoric.
It all started out as “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” and somehow wound up with a few million slaves.
Go figure.
I would not want to use this century’s Internet technology to vote. Mail or drop off at City Hall are the choices, and they work.
We have family in Australia and have visited so we know that voting is compulsory there. Fines will be assessed including court costs, an explanation for not voting will have to be given, etc., and from what the family tells us (they used to live in California) voter turnout is higher than ours.
Boehner and Kasich take that.