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A significant number of people, especially those lower on the socioeconomic ladder, are working on weekends. "Vote on saturday" would skew elections toward tho
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
A significant number of people, especially those lower on the socioeconomic ladder, are working on weekends.
"Vote on saturday" would skew elections toward those who work M-F jobs.
We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard is because stripping certain communities of their precincts and poll workers and such to create massive waits for voting is a key part of their disenfranchisement strategy...and keeping voting as an in-person activity because it does such a wonderful job of keeping The Poors out of polls, thus starving progressive candidates of votes.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> We need mail-in voting. It would solve so many problems. But the reason one party has fought against it so hard ...for other people (their own voters, because of age demographics of the parties, being disproportionately more likely to qualify for mail-in [absentee] ballots under the restrictive rules they prefer to general mail-in availability)...