Omg. You are from downriver.
That explains a lot
<----- Oakland county
I haven't been in a physical voting booth in years. Who does that anymore? I've been returning my ballots by mail. Stepping into a voting booth is like seeing the old lady, at the grocery store, who still writes checks. And she smells like stale cat shit and cigarettes, too.
There is no right to vote in the US. There should be, but there is not.
Same here, but we just mail them in, or drop them off at several convenient secured ballot drop off boxes.NY uses paper ballots too - bubble in your choice and the ballot gets scanned. Leaves a nice paper trail.
With the curtain pulled behind you. Haven't seen one in decades.When I lived there they used ancient mechanical voting machines where I was at. Flipped a bunch of switches, then pulled the lever to compete.
I know it's all about Feedumb, but I personally think that people should be compelled to respond to elections even if it's to vote no selection. Hell, tie it to an IRS bonus, you have some way of verifying that you at least showed up (does not have to be physical) you get the money.There is no right to vote in the US. There should be, but there is not.
Because officials in some states only want the correct voters voting.
Check your info. US voting rights laws, including constitution, simply specify which characteristics you can't be denied a right to vote based on. They don't say that you have a right to vote.Absolutely false. You must have been asleep during every single civics class and US history class you had.
Bullshit.
Every voting system has problems.
Don't think an web voting system will have problems? Take a look at EVERY system that has to put up with demand like that on a irregular basis. Black Friday, when websites crash left and right. The last Amazon Prime day. Etc. Nevermind that any static electronic voting system will be compromised. Period.
Don't think an electronic system will have problems? Power outages. Machine failures. No paper trail.
Mechanical system - hanging chads. Mechanical system failure.
Paper System - lost ballets. Mismarked ballots. Ballots thrown out because they were illegible or unclear.
I don't expect them to get it 100% right on election day. Anyone who does is pretty naive. However - running out of ballots is pretty unacceptable. They should have had a plan for this - mail ballots to those that couldn't vote in a timely manner and require their response within 14 days (or something like that).
FFS, I was not specifically referring to web based systems. There are other methods as well such as the one in Oregon. which is by mail. Also the question I was responding to was basically why isn't it as easy to vote as possible.
Fukin Russians....
In all seriousness, you guys use paper ballots?
Man that sounds old school PITA.
Hope it's all dems showing up tho
Parroting Trump at the G7 I see... Thaaats a good boy, gooood boy.But... Russia, Russia, Russia!
Why? Because it's just part of the GOP effort to game the system. They don't want everybody to vote. Quite the contrary.
I'd trot out my famous goo goo good government link of where this concept of voter suppression was codified by the GOP, but it's old and grainy and just stupid history anyway. Republicans want as few voters to show up at the polls as possible. They call liberals elites.Why? Because it's just part of the GOP effort to game the system. They don't want everybody to vote. Quite the contrary.
Only 3 states (OR, WA, CO) have universal vote by mail. An additional 27 states allow "no excuse" absentee voting, but voters have to register for it months in advance, and in most cases, have to re-register for every single election (only 8 states allow permanent absentee voting status).
The remaining 20 states (including Michigan) require that voters show up at the polling places on election day or provide some kind of "good cause" to receive an absentee ballot.
So using your analogy, everyone in those 20 states is being required to still write checks because the old lady doesn't like change.
"In Pontiac, they were first to say they were running out. They had many voters that were spoiling ballots by crossing over (from one party's column to that of another party), and I believe there was a lack of voter instruction there," Brown said.
As far as I've ever seen it in NY, you get a different ballot if you're an R or D for the primaryPartof the issue is that MI only allows straight ticket voting in the primary but in November that is not a requirement. Apparently we had lots of people participating that hadn't before and who couldn't follow simple instructions
And voter instruction shouldn't have been a problem. It was in bold at the top of the damn ballot.
It's the difference between open & closed primaries.As far as I've ever seen it in NY, you get a different ballot if you're an R or D for the primary
Would never happen with mail-in ballots.