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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Another issue with forcing people to actually be physically present to vote:
People who are citizens of the country, stationed overseas for their jobs, or whose jobs have them out of the country that month (such as international business moguls and their entire staff, including bodyguards, secretaries, clerks, scheduling secretaries, wardrobe coordinators, public relations directors, directors of photography, etc. etc. etc.).
Also low-income people who live in rural areas with no mass transit, and no way to GET to the polls, if they are more than a few miles away (since they would otherwise walk, or ride a bicycle, or ride a tractor).
There's the additional problem with volume: some of these polling centers have been at nursing homes, precisely to allow those people living in the nursing homes the opportunity to vote without dealing with the logistics of getting an entire building's worth of limited-mobility patients to some other place to vote. During a pandemic - do you REALLY want to know that your elderly Aunt Sophie will have to endure EVERYONE who lives NEAR that nursing home showing up to vote that day? Because - those nursing home polling places are not limited to only the residents at the homes. Everyone who lives in that district has the right to show up and vote there.
Preparation - consideration, planning, ruling things out, adding things in, discussing the situation, is crucial or we'll end up with the same disaster of a vote experienced in Wisconsin, but on a national level.
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Ah yes - the poor people propaganda. Even lower income areas have sites which could serve as a polling station such as schools or other federal locations.
We already covered the out of town and military.
Nursing homes should never be used as polling places and I truly don’t believe they ever were as they are private property.
We have voted in person for eons and that truly is the only way to keep things honest. Voter ID or you don’t vote.