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How does that help when some places have only one polling station for 100k people? And there is a global pandemic, so we don't want 100k people congregating in
by rabidrat 6y ago
How does that help when some places have only one polling station for 100k people? And there is a global pandemic, so we don't want 100k people congregating in the same crowded space?
- BurningFrog 6y agoYeah, polling stations are dimensioned for typical turnout, which includes a majority voting by mail.
- erentz 6y agoNot really. Minorities are routinely disenfranchised through polling station closures. See all the polling station closures during the primaries using COVID as the reason. “Black voters, on average, wait 45 percent longer to vote than white voters; Latino voters wait 46 percent longer” https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/613408/ https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/613408/ See also the particularly egregious Kentucky example where they even tried to close the station while people were still in line. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-primaries-kentucky-1.5623343 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-primaries-kentucky-1.562334... The examples of this kind of suppression are sadly countless here in the US.
- frobozz 6y agoDo that, and set up a sensible network of polling places with appropriate opening hours so that everyone can vote easily without 100k people all turning up at the exact same time and trying to squeeze into the same crowded space.