Sat Oct 22, 2016, 05:46 PM
RBInMaine (13,570 posts)
Why is there no early voting in PA? This is surprising. Are there movements to allow early voting?
We have early voting in Maine. Anyone can get a mail-in absentee ballot. You don't need a special reason. It's great.
PA is such a historic state. It's surprising to me.
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RBInMaine | Oct 2016 | OP |
Motley13 | Oct 2016 | #1 | |
RBInMaine | Oct 2016 | #4 | |
blue neen | Oct 2016 | #7 | |
DeminPennswoods | Oct 2016 | #9 | |
blue neen | Oct 2016 | #10 | |
DeminPennswoods | Oct 2016 | #11 | |
Freddie | Oct 2016 | #2 | |
RBInMaine | Oct 2016 | #3 | |
femmocrat | Oct 2016 | #5 | |
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Response to RBInMaine (Original post)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 05:51 PM
Motley13 (3,867 posts)
1. Here ya go
Response to Motley13 (Reply #1)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 06:09 PM
RBInMaine (13,570 posts)
4. You guys need to vote out the RePukes in that legislature.
Response to RBInMaine (Reply #4)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:09 PM
blue neen (12,092 posts)
7. Extreme gerrymandering here.
We'd love to vote out a jerk like the contemptible Turzai. He's in a very safe Republican area.
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Response to blue neen (Reply #7)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 06:25 AM
DeminPennswoods (14,824 posts)
9. Turzai might not be a safe as you think
Apparently Turzai inserted himself - or at least people in his district think he did - into a Walmart zoning issue and voters are mad about it. They could take it out on him at the polls since a Dem managed to win a write-in slot during the primary. Before that, Turzai was running unopposed.
Here's the story: http://www.post-gazette.com/early-returns/erstate/2016/05/22/Turzai-target-of-dissent-in-North-Hills/stories/201605200179 Another guy who is losing his grip on his safe Republican seat is the thoroughly reprehensible Darryl Metcalfe. |
Response to DeminPennswoods (Reply #9)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 10:33 AM
blue neen (12,092 posts)
10. Hmm. Interesting story!
It would be great to see Turzai lose. Metcalfe too!
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Response to blue neen (Reply #10)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 04:55 PM
DeminPennswoods (14,824 posts)
11. Metcalfe is a deplorable
This district would most probably remain Republican, but perhaps we'd get a more traditional Republican legislator.
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Response to RBInMaine (Original post)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 05:53 PM
Freddie (8,720 posts)
2. We've never had early voting
I never even heard of it til I started hanging around here.
Since our gerrymandered-to-death state legislature is extremely red, I highly doubt if anyone is even thinking about it. One good thing, at least where I am (Philly burbs) on Election Day there's polling places everywhere - 3 in my little township alone - so I've never had to wait in a really long line to vote, even in presidential years. |
Response to Freddie (Reply #2)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 06:07 PM
RBInMaine (13,570 posts)
3. Thanks. You guys need to get control of that legislature.
Response to RBInMaine (Original post)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 06:32 PM
femmocrat (28,389 posts)
5. That would make a great reform for Gov. Wolf to promote.
I recently read that 35 states have some form of early voting.
We also have a very rigid absentee ballot system. We are one of two states that still has a state-store system for selling alcohol, so what do you expect! (Utah is the other one.) I can also remember "'blue laws" where stores were closed on Sundays as late as the late-1970s. |