What if you work on Election Day?Bonsaibacker wrote: ↑Nov 06, 2020 6:56 AM Voting should be easy- it is our right. It should not be easy to commit fraud (allow someone else to cast your ballot or give it away- I do not understand why it cannot be done in person with FEW exceptions). If it is important to you, make the effort!
What if you're sick on Election Day?
What if there's a world-wide pandemic on Election Day?
I agree completely—voting should be easy. I voted early for the first time since I was 21. I went to my county office building, showed my credentials, received a ballot, filled it out, and ran it through an electronic tabulator. My state counted my vote immediately.
If I lived in PA, their Republican controlled legislature refused to allow absentee, early, and mail-in ballots to be counted until AFTER election day. They had the chance to change the law and didn't, thinking it would somehow benefit their party's leader. Their party's leader told everyone not to vote early, by mail or other. He sewed the seeds of distrust in the mail-in ballot to his base. And it came back to bite him. Don't blame those who took advantage of mailing in their vote in a legal manner.
Until you show me rampant cases of fraud in mail-in balloting, I'm just not going to consider it a legitimate complaint, or even a factor in the final count. You can't be honest and sue to stop the ballot counting in some states and sue to continue it in others. You shouldn't put more obstacles in the way of our service personnel overseas who must vote by mail-in ballot.
Hell, even our President voted by mail.