you take can a phone and register people in an instant
at the bottom of that page is info from every state (deadlines, vote by mail requests, absentee, military/overseas, etc.)
so if you know someone who isn't registered, wants to verify registration, or vote in absentia, either let them know or send a link
don't wait
It's a lot messier in some places, like DC. People can give their info at voter.org but the state entity like the DC Board of Elections has to process that info. I've seen reports that DCBOE is dealing with record levels of applications.
they probably are
it's gov, so realistically we should expect some slow/sloppy procedure
professional bureaucratic coffee stirrers and finger pointers are ready and able to help, please hold
For voters in five states, in-person voting remains the only option unless they can provide an approved reason not related to fear of the coronavirus. Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
There is a difference between mail-in and absentee balloting in most states. Providing a reason for absentee ballots has been standard for some time.
I believe they created an exception in our state due to the pandemic.
Got damn republicans. Your state is run by repubs, right ?
I thought that they were determined to suppress voting not make it easier.
There is a difference between mail-in and absentee balloting in most states. Providing a reason for absentee ballots has been standard for some time.
kcar wrote:
For voters in five states, in-person voting remains the only option unless they can provide an approved reason not related to fear of the coronavirus. Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
I believe they created an exception in our state due to the pandemic.
There is a difference between mail-in and absentee balloting in most states. Providing a reason for absentee ballots has been standard for some time.
kcar wrote:
For voters in five states, in-person voting remains the only option unless they can provide an approved reason not related to fear of the coronavirus. Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
Let's start here with this whopper then I'll consider discussing the rest.
Show me the list.
I stand corrected. I should have written that some states require the voter to provide an excuse before his/her state will allow absentee voting. Those states are Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
See the article for a map of the US states and their different regulations involving absentee voting.
For voters in five states, in-person voting remains the only option unless they can provide an approved reason not related to fear of the coronavirus. Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
Elections are pretty regular and predictable here in the USA.
In order to vote you must register. Do not they teach that in school anymore ?
Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis or an emergency on my part.
I have no sympathy for those that put this off until the last minute.
And for the last time, voting has never been easier to do than now in all the years I've been walking on this planet.
When I started voting in 1972, there were two ways. Show up in person on the day or have a damn good reason for requesting an absentee ballot. That was it. .
You didn't have to miss a part of full day's pay to take off to make it to the polling place? Some folks have to make that choice. Especially if the line to vote is hours long, because there aren't adequate amounts of polling places.
And you had transportation to get there swiftly? I know that's not true for everyone.
Did you have to bring your birth certificate, even though you were born poor, many decades ago, and were unlikely to have it, or any "official" documentation on hand? (And did you have the money in your budget that you could divert to paying for the document, as well as the time off work to wait at the government office to get it arranged?)
And did your vote amount to pissing in the wind due to gerrymandering?
To be honest, it takes time to get ducks in a row to be allowed to vote because of the OMGWTFFRAUD!!! (that has always been proven to be insignificant). So the "piss-poor-planning" that you unfairly mock is actually a race to address the recently engaged methodical widespread effort to keep the non-GOP folks from the polls.
It certainly says something horrible about our government that they do everything they can to not encourage legal voting, to discourage legal voting, to tolerate gerrymandering that prevents proper representation of the voters being governed, to promote the idea that we can't trust the results of the upcoming election, and for the President of the United States to suggest felonious behavior of voting more than once.
Elections are pretty regular and predictable here in the USA.
In order to vote you must register. Do not they teach that in school anymore ?
Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis or an emergency on my part.
I have no sympathy for those that put this off until the last minute.
And for the last time, voting has never been easier to do than now in all the years I've been walking on this planet.
When I started voting in 1972, there were two ways. Show up in person on the day or have a damn good reason for requesting an absentee ballot. That was it. .
"And for the last time, voting has never been easier to do than now in all the years I've been walking on this planet."
Tell that to the former felons in FL who've done their time and want to vote. They have to pay off fines and court fees before they can vote—but FL has no central database that stores such information and many local jurisdictions have spotty records as well. So those people are effectively blocked from voting for the foreseeable future. Even though 65% of Floridians voting in a popular referendum in FL restored their right to vote. The state legislature and FL governor voted to require payment of fees and fines as a way of blocking former felons from voting. The courts should have struck down that law because it amounts to a poll tax but an Appeals court packed with Trump appointees let the law stand.
Also some states don't allow absentee voting.
Here's a list of barriers to voting, some of which are in place to deliberate suppress minority voting. Photo ID requirements and reduced polling places/hours are common tricks.
A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute shows that black and Hispanic citizens are more likely than whites to face barriers at the pollsâand to fear the future erosion of their basic political rights.
Voter suppression almost certainly helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Multiple academic studies and court rulings indicate that racially biased election laws, such as voter-ID legislation in places like Wisconsin, favored Republican candidates in 2016. Like most other elections in American history, this one wasnât a fair fight.
A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and The Atlantic has uncovered evidence of deep structural barriers to the ballot for black and Latino voters, specifically in the 2016 election. More than that, the survey finds that the deep wounds of Jim Crow endure, leaving Americaâs democratic promise unfulfilled.
The real extent of voter suppression in the United States is contested. As was the case for poll taxes and literacy tests long ago, restrictive election laws are often, on their face, racially neutral, giving them a sheen of legitimacy. But the new data from PRRI and The Atlantic suggest that the outcomes of these laws are in no way racially neutral. The poll, conducted in June, surveyed Americans about their experiences with voting, their assessments of the countryâs political system, and their interfaces with civics. The results, especially when analyzed by race, are troublesome. They indicate that voter suppression is commonplace, and that voting is routinely harder for people of color than for their white counterparts.
The new data support perhaps the worst-case scenario offered by opponents of restrictive voting laws. Nine percent of black respondents and 9 percent of Hispanic respondents indicated that, in the last election, they (or someone in their household) were told that they lacked the proper identification to vote. Just 3 percent of whites said the same. Ten percent of black respondents and 11 percent of Hispanic respondents reported that they were incorrectly told that they werenât listed on voter rolls, as opposed to 5 percent of white respondents. In all, across just about every issue identified as a common barrier to voting, black and Hispanic respondents were twice as likely, or more, to have experienced those barriers as white respondents.
The numbers not only suggest that policies such as voter-ID requirements and automatic voter purges do, indeed, have strong racial and ethnic biases, but also that there are more subtle barriers for people of color that compound the effects of these laws. Fifteen percent of black respondents and 14 percent of Hispanic respondents said that they had trouble finding polling places on Election Day, versus 5 percent of whites. This finding squares with research indicating that frequent changes to polling-site locations hurt minority voters more. Additionally, more than one in 10 blacks and Hispanics missed the registration deadline to vote in 2016, as opposed to just 3 percent of whites. And black and Hispanic respondents were twice as likely as white respondents to have been unable to get time off work for voting.
Elections are pretty regular and predictable here in the USA.
In order to vote you must register. Do not they teach that in school anymore ?
Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis or an emergency on my part.
I have no sympathy for those that put this off until the last minute.
And for the last time, voting has never been easier to do than now in all the years I've been walking on this planet.
When I started voting in 1972, there were two ways. Show up in person on the day or have a damn good reason for requesting an absentee ballot. That was it. .
you take can a phone and register people in an instant
at the bottom of that page is info from every state (deadlines, vote by mail requests, absentee, military/overseas, etc.)
so if you know someone who isn't registered, wants to verify registration, or vote in absentia, either let them know or send a link
don't wait
It's a lot messier in some places, like DC. People can give their info at voter.org but the state entity like the DC Board of Elections has to process that info. I've seen reports that DCBOE is dealing with record levels of applications.
