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The long queues obviously are there on purpose; incredible your sitting government can get away with it. It is really a sign of a broken system - there are supp

• rightbyte 6y ago
  What does voter turnout matter when electors are chosen on a district level anyways? Ie a city got its allocated electors versus a town with nicers ques and higher turnout.
  • 542354234235 6y ago
    For a clear cut example, look at Texas. “Abbott in July acted to lengthen the early voting period and allow voters to deliver completed absentee ballots in person for longer than the normal period. But after large Democratic counties including Harris and Travis established several sites where voters could deliver their ballots, Abbott ordered Oct. 1 that they would be limited to one… Harris County — home to 2.4 million registered voters and spanning a greater distance than the state of Rhode Island — had designated a dozen before Abbott’s order forced them to close most sites.” [0] If party A looks at the districts with majority party B voters and targets those areas for polling station closures, that can have a huge effect. [0] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/13/texas-election-ballot-drop-off/ https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/13/texas-election-ballo...