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Election Reform

Soleta

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3. Why not just get rid of polling places?

Reply to mathewgeorge (Original post)

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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Only 29 states allow registered voters to take time off work to vote. [View all] 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