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> let people find their ballot by some ID number if they want and call it a day. And if your boss or landlord or spouse or cult leader hints that you should sh
by dane-pgp 6y ago
> let people find their ballot by some ID number if they want and call it a day.
And if your boss or landlord or spouse or cult leader hints that you should show them you voted the correct way, what do you do?
- Spivak 6y agoAnd if your boss or landlord or cult leader makes you request an absentee ballot and fill it out in front of them?
- dane-pgp 6y agoThen you have to hope that the system allows you to override your absentee ballot with an in-person ballot, and that your boss or landlord or cult leader doesn't have people watching the polling locations (or watching your movements whenever the polling locations are open). I admit that's not a perfect system, but it might skew the outcome of the vote less than a system where governors can selectively reduce the number of polling locations, and staff working at them, to produce hour-long lines of people risking catching a potentially deadly disease from each other.
- urban_strike 6y agoI think I'd be in the market for a new cult leader if they tried to pull that!
- dane-pgp 6y agoYeah, why don't people in exploitative cults and abusive relationships just leave? And why don't homeless people just buy a house? And why don't people without bread just eat cake?
- david927 6y agoEnsure it's clear that that's illegal in the same way sexual harassment is illegal. For all the benefits it would bring, that's a silly reason to throw it all away.