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Turnout can also be improved by voting on Sundays instead of work days. Yet they skipped that step and went right for electronic voting, that's nearly unanimous
by deogeo 7y ago
Turnout can also be improved by voting on Sundays instead of work days. Yet they skipped that step and went right for electronic voting, that's nearly unanimously opposed by experts.
- mikece 7y agoEven better: 11 day window for voting window, starting on a Friday and ending on a Monday. Two full weekends to vote, no excuses for not being able to make it. Some states already do this with "early voting" which starts up to two weeks before the actual election day. And if you could pre-print your completed ballot to be scanned (once your identity if verified per local requirements) then the process could be very, very fast and efficient.
- deogeo 7y ago> And if you could pre-print your completed ballot Your printer will betray you by printing invisible identifying dots on your ballot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
- swebs 7y agoHow would that betray you? They're supposed to verify that this ballot belongs to you in the first place.
- deogeo 7y agoI'm confused - wouldn't that mean the vote isn't secret?
- swebs 7y agoIt won't go on record who you voted for, but someone at the office will have to confirm that you voted and enter in the vote. If mail-in ballots were completely anonymous, then someone could just print 10,000 copies and stuff the polls.
- deogeo 7y agoI thought we were talking about non-mail-in ballots, that you print at home, but submit personally.
- ssully 7y agoJust make it a national holiday
- devonkim 7y agoVirginia just made it a state holiday, yay for progress. Too bad half the people that should vote will still be working on that day or don't even think about voting because they're too stressed to care.