I’m Prejudiced

~ Clarissa

Why do we need early voting if we have a whole day off work on Election Day? We have an early voting station on campus yet November 5 is a holiday. This makes no sense.

I’m prejudiced against people who are into early voting.

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  2. It’s not prejudice, it’s just good judgement.

    Until voting is restricted to in-person, on paper, on one day only, the US will not have free and fair elections.

    Even India – with a population that is almost five times that of the United States does it better, and many other so called Third World countries.

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  3. I have never had off on Election Day except for when I worked a seasonal job and so was laid off at the time anyway. I had class on Election Day while in school, too. Is this a new thing?

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  4. We need early voting because there are only FOUR states out of fifty that have Election Day as a holiday. My parents always had trouble voting when I was a kid because our state had no early voting, extremely strict rules about absentee voting, and polls that closed early. It’s gotten better there, but some states used to make it incredibly hard for working people to vote.

    I live in a state with early voting and I almost always vote early, usually by going to the county administration building a week or so ahead of time. That’s where the ballots get counted, so I know mine will never leave that building.

    What I don’t understand is the big push for voting by mail. There are SO many ways your ballot could get lost coming or going or be intercepted by someone else. I just don’t trust it and don’t understand how anyone can.

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    1. There are SO many ways your ballot could get lost coming or going or be intercepted by someone else.

      This is a feature, not a bug.

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  5. there are many people who have to work on Election Day. Nurses firefighters ER docs Nannies. BUT most of them are allowed time off to vote and if the polls are open 7am to 9pm there is no job I am aware of that would prevent a person from voting if they wanted to. I think employers have to at least allow some time offto vote.

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