(05-22-2020, 10:53 AM)TJBender Wrote: This country should have been on vote by mail as the default 50 years ago, and should have moved to online, home voting by default 20 years ago. But Republicans need stuff to whine about, so they require in-person voting, which gives them a chance to keep turnout low (and thus win something, anything) and piss and moan about voter fraud on the Democratic side when, tbh, they're every bit as guilty. They just use laws to keep Republicans in power by redrawing districts and making it impossible for the poor to vote. If you have to choose between taking an hour to take the bus to your polling place, stand in line for an hour, and taking another hour to get back to work, knowing that doing so will cost you $30 of lost wage and that $30 will keep food on the kids' table, would you vote? Or would you stay at work and let the wealthier crowd with cars and paid voting leave be the ones in control of the voter booth? You know how we fix that? Absentee/mail-in voting and online voting. The only people against it are those who don't understand it or who know what it would mean for a certain party.

And while we're at it, all district maps should be required to be reviewed by a bipartisan panel comprised of non-residents of the state they're being drawn in to ensure that it's not the old Corinne Brown snakehead wandering its way through the Democratic areas of NE FL and the Panhandle. Killing the practice of gerrymandering will go a long way towards actually letting the majority vote be what wins the day, not the majority of people who can afford to take several hours to go vote.