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> having to set aside a day to vote That only happens if the people in charge of the elections are enemies of democracy. It also means that the results are bei
by jltsiren 2y ago
> having to set aside a day to vote
That only happens if the people in charge of the elections are enemies of democracy. It also means that the results are being manipulated and not particularly legitimate.
The election day is obviously a public holiday. There are plenty of polling locations, so you never have to go far to vote, unless you live in a particularly remote rural area. And because there are enough polling locations, you should not have to stand in line for more than a couple of minutes.
- mariusor 2y agoI don't know where you're voting from, but most of my adult life I had long queues to wait in - granted I was an expat crowding an embassy's corridor - and even if I don't have to work that day, I can think of better things that I could do with my time than that. And it's not all about me or you, it's about all the people that do have to take a day off even if it's a holiday, and the people that don't live next to a polling location, and about the people that are on vacation and need to vote in a train station or air port. There are always people inconvenienced by the act of physically going to a ballot station. Electronic voting would help them.
- jltsiren 2y agoI'm from Finland. I've never had to wait more than a couple of minutes to vote within the country. Once I had to wait for maybe 5 minutes in an embassy, but the other times I went to an embassy there was nobody except me. There are also a few early voting days to give people more chances to vote if the actual voting day is too inconvenient. As far as I understand, online voting has been shown to have minimal to no effect on voter turnout. Most of the time, people don't skip voting because it's too inconvenient but because they are not interested or they forgot.