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Originally Posted by Rochard
How much easier can it get? I get a form sent directly to my house and I vote before the election.
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Same here. My state votes by mail. The ballot is sent to me a few weeks before the election and I can either mail it back or drop it in a ballot drop.
We have a high voter turnout because of this and it makes it easy.
Many states are not that way.
Let me take you back to 2004 in Ohio. The election was likely going to come down to who won Ohio (this was Bush vs Kerry). In that state if you lived in one of the major cites there was suddenly a shortage of voting machines. People were waiting in line 3-6 hours to vote. This is actually fairly common in a lot of places. It is why they started doing early voting days in many places so they could avoid the long lines and waits on election day.