2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Report from my precinct in New York City [View all]zentrum
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.switching a polling station from an established one that voters have been going to for a decade or longer can be a problem. Not a big problem, but it kind of creates an opening for confusion.
And secondly, people can lose their mail, the mailperson can inadvertently put it in the wrong mailbox in a 50+ tenant building (which happens all the time) or a person can live at a new apartment but in the same district. Or maybe the mistake is at the Election Board. They do have to process millions of mailings, after all. There just seems more chance for slippage when all people have a is a one-time card and a station you've gone to for ten years is suddenly different. Maybe something like that happened to this guy who lost his station.
I just keep having the feeling that American elections can do better. Like weekend voting, voting by mail (not absentee), and two and three day elections. Plus having better roll out at the polls. It should be easier to vote and utterly reliable.