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Election Reform

mathewgeorge

(11 posts) Thu Nov 8, 2018, 01:39 PM Nov 2018

Only 29 states allow registered voters to take time off work to vote.

https://www.caemployeelawyer.com/time-off-to-vote-laws-by-state/

Election day should really be a national holiday. If we want to increase voter turnout, our current system is not the way to do it. The change has to come at the Federal level so all states have to follow suit.

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Only 29 states allow registered voters to take time off work to vote. (Original Post) mathewgeorge Nov 2018 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author JimGinPA Nov 2018 #1

If polls were uniformly open from 8 am to 8 pm, everyone could vote. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2018 #2

Why not just get rid of polling places? Soleta Nov 2018 #3

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Bernardo de La Paz

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2. If polls were uniformly open from 8 am to 8 pm, everyone could vote. . . . nt

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Thu Nov 8, 2018, 03:13 PM

Nov 2018

Soleta

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3. Why not just get rid of polling places?

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Sat Nov 24, 2018, 05:54 AM

Nov 2018

Several states do 100% of the voting by mail or dropped off ballots, and have no trouble processing them. If there are always going to be mailed ballots anyway, why continue with a hybrid system?

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