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In response to "I'm out of vacation time, so it's the only way I can vote. I guess I could have gotten an absentee ballot. -- nm" by Amy

Absentee is pretty cool, but this polls being weeks before Election Day? I'm not getting it.

Posted by Qale (aka Qale) Oct 24 '08, 12:24

Seems like it's open to even more corruption and what happens if your candidate really effs it up in the last few days, or is replaced via some other crazy emergency.

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I think the idea of an "election day" is ill suited to our current times - znufrii wants pie Oct 24, 12:28 8
- Should the government set up a social networking website for voting as well because that's more suited to our current times? Hehehe. - Qale Oct 24, 12:30 7
  - I actually think that would be a great idea once we can make electronic communication more secure. -- nm - znufrii wants pie Oct 24, 12:31 1
    - You'd make it ORANGE too wouldn't you? BASTARD!!!!! - Qale Oct 24, 12:35
  - What corruption issues? -- nm - psilotum Oct 24, 12:31 4
    - That's the original topic of this thread. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:32 3
      - The original article talks about issues at the polling place. They would not be helped by reducing the hours/days the polls were open. -- nm - psilotum Oct 24, 12:38 2
        
        Pardon my conspiracy theorist mentality but I read "glitches" and I think it can lead to corruption. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:43 1
        
        true. Or they are a result of corruption. But all this has happened on election day before. -- nm - psilotum Oct 24, 12:49
It is easier for everyone...the voters and the election officials...it's good for democracy -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 24, 12:26 14
- Maybe voting shouldn't be easy though. Maybe it should be hard and take time and effort. I mean there was a story on Drive-Thru voting I believe? WTH? -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:27 13
  - let's reinstate literacy tests and poll taxes, then. - znufrii wants pie Oct 24, 12:29 9
    - How about making it only for landowners, men, white people again -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 24, 12:31 1
      - YES!!! -- nm - John McCain Oct 24, 12:32
    - I think that's taking what I said too far, obviously. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:30 6
      - of course, but it makes my point. Barriers to voting do a disservice to democracy. -- nm - znufrii wants pie Oct 24, 12:32 5
        
        How big of a barrier is it to just have people either vote absentee or show up on a certain day? - Qale Oct 24, 12:34 4
        
        z wants us all to vote by beaming a hanging chad from our imbedded mind chips to a satellite. -- nm - TFox Oct 24, 12:39 3
        
        The Electorate is SELF AWARE!! -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:44
        
        mi mi mi mi mi mi mi - Beaker SI Oct 24, 12:44
        
        *shrug* the fundamental idea is sound -- nm - znufrii wants pie Oct 24, 12:43
  - I really don't understand the argument that it should be harder to vote. -- nm - psilotum Oct 24, 12:29 2
    - Not harder, but certainly not so easy that it becomes unappreciated. -- nm - Qale Oct 24, 12:31 1
      - I don't think that's what the issue has been recently -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 24, 12:33
I'm voting Nov. 1. Close enough. -- nm - Amy Oct 24, 12:26

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Absentee is pretty cool, but this polls being weeks before Election Day? I'm not getting it.

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