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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (15 children)

How the fuck does the US manage to make people stand in line for early voting?

In every civilized country, you can show up on election day (when basically everyone has a free day cause it's Sunday), you vote with maybe 3-4 people in line before you, and you're done after 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

This is what happens in some Republican controlled states when they limit the times and places and how people can vote. Trump said a few years ago that if minorities vote, Republicans will never win another election. So Republican controlled states started getting rid of polling stations and changing voting times to standard working hours, etc, knowing that people wouldn't be able to take time off from work to stand in the now longer lines (due to fewer polling stations) or would want to stand in longer lines.

Plus, election day is not a national holiday like it is in most other countries, so people don't get the day off to vote. Though some companies give 3 or 4 hours paid time off strictly for voting.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

It is working as designed, since it is meant to discourage people from voting. The less voter participation the better results for Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I don't know took us almost an hour to vote.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well you see, the point is to prevent people from voting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The people's will gets in the way of the will of the Oligarchs, religious leaders, and Plutocrats. Hence the effort to make it hard to vote.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I like what california did last election: everyone got an absentee ballot. That way I could fill it out at home and drop it off at my polling location at my leisure. There was a line, but I got to walk past it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Man you see how it happens. You see these Republicans out there trying to fuck everything when it comes to making it easy to vote. In some places you dip your finger in a jar of ink after you cast your vote, that's how they make sure nobody was twice on election day. In some places, I assume it's all computerized and still accurate. That, and Nobody wants to run for office and get death threats from their neighbors, the most absolute gullible dumbasses in town. Every person in my neighborhood with a Trump sign have no idea how anything works except their own one particular job, and how to get scared at anything else.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

In the state of Oregon, I just get mailed a ballot and can either mail it back or drop it off...last year, I did a drive-through ballot drop off at the state capital.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've always been able to vote within 10 min or less. Must vary a lot by location.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Same here. I'm in a major city, only ever takes about 5 minutes for me to vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It most certainly doe vary a lot by location. And if your voting location is in a high minority or poor population area, it's going to be a long wait for you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There are usually way more polling locations open on election day than during early voting. They set up polling at churches, schools, and community centers all over.

During early voting I have to go to the courthouse which is in the next town over. There aren't any polling places in my city.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Every election I've ever voted in has had at least a 20 minute wait. I've mostly lived in medium to high density population centers my whole life. I've voted on voting day, I voted by absentee and there was a line for the drop box during COVID, I just did my early voting as a first time Texas voter and there was a 45 minute line to use the voting machines, not even a pen and paper ballot. I've never not seen a line at the polls. It's always been strange to me thinking about the number of folks who DON'T vote vs how many people I personally witness voting every season. But then again, many people don't like standing out in a heat wave while it's raining so I guess it makes sense that a lot of them don't go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Same. It's like a short stop on a Sunday walk... Because we ALWAYS VOTE ON SUNDAY!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Also it takes five minutes to walk to the voting office from my home, on the voting Sunday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's pretty much how it is for me unless they're having problems with the printer or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont know I live in America, longest it has ever taken me to vote on Election Day is 20 minutes, yet people are still waiting in long lines to early vote this year. Typically few people early vote so there are fewer early voting places. But that is not the case this year, so we have giant early vote lines. I am not sure why my neighbors are waiting in long lines to early vote when it will take 10 times as long as in Election Day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of the things conservatives are doing is to limit the number of polling stations per X square miles. This is done in the name of fairness and spending, but it disproportionately impacts urban voters more than rural, and thus impacts areas of more progressive voters.

I'd guess this is a larger population center of Oklahoma.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I could have been more clear I guess. I was not trying to question why other people early vote, only why people around me do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If you don’t know you live in America you should quickly go check. It makes a big difference knowing where you live!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For me 10 people are usually in line :(

Although it still doesn't take longer than like 15 minutes