Remember when Election Day was Tuesday? Period?

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TB — 4/9/2013 3:43:15 PM (archived)

Now we have early voting, online registration, and countless other ways to make it easy to vote. The average early voting start time in the 32 states that have it is 22 days before the election, with an average duration of 19 days. Three weeks to vote.

http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Early_Voting_States.jpg

This is nuts. If the bar for registering and voting in this country was any lower, a department story dummy could manage it.

The question that comes to my mind: what's happening to a political process that desperately needs large numbers of uninformed, unaware, and apathetic voters?

It's like having labeling laws for medicine, and the manufacturers start frantically looking for illiterate customers. What conclusions do you draw about the product?

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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." -- Anais Nin - ER - 4/5/2013 2:28:38 PM
- Re: "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." -- Anais Nin - Jody - 4/8/2013 7:20:34 PM
- Re: "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." -- Anais Nin - Jody - 4/8/2013 4:56:08 AM
  - I have no doubt there is a real world, one independent of our perception of it. - ER - 4/8/2013 11:26:44 AM
    - Re: I have no doubt there is a real world, one independent of our perception of it. - TB - 4/8/2013 1:36:24 PM
      - Maybe not, but most folks believe you do need one to vote. - ER - 4/8/2013 2:33:31 PM
        
        Re: Maybe not, but most folks believe you do need one to vote. - TB - 4/8/2013 4:43:51 PM
        
        I tried to explain it to her. - ER - 4/8/2013 5:01:56 PM
        
        Okay, I'm sort of lost in the weeds. - TB - 4/8/2013 5:27:39 PM
        
        I didn't inquire. - ER - 4/8/2013 8:13:21 PM
        
        Making it hard for "those people" to vote - TB - 4/8/2013 8:59:34 PM
        
        Re: I didn't inquire. - Jody - 4/8/2013 8:51:16 PM
        
        Sure guys, I'm paranoid. - ER - 4/8/2013 9:59:13 PM
        
        Re: Sure guys, I'm paranoid. - Jody - 4/9/2013 2:36:19 AM
        
        It has done been exposed. In pretty much every state where the GOP holds the majority in their legislature... - alcaray - 4/9/2013 7:52:16 AM
        
        Remember when Election Day was Tuesday? Period? - TB - 4/9/2013 3:43:15 PM
        
        And yet people have to stand in line all night to vote in some places. Amazing isn't it? n/t - alcaray - 4/9/2013 8:16:46 PM
        
        Only in Democratic precincts. n/t - ER - 4/9/2013 9:09:01 PM
        
        Other options: - TB - 4/9/2013 9:37:00 PM
        
        You left one option out of your list. - ER - 4/9/2013 10:54:46 PM
        
        Gentlemen Of Property - ER - 4/9/2013 6:25:11 PM
        
        Back to non-responsive loop mode. - TB - 4/9/2013 6:39:09 PM
        
        Re: Remember when Election Day was Tuesday? Period? - Jody - 4/9/2013 5:32:38 PM
        
        They haven't played this game in California, either. - alcaray - 4/9/2013 8:19:22 PM
        
        Re: They haven't played this game in California, either. - TB - 4/9/2013 8:26:50 PM

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