Voting By Phone?

• November 4, 2008

I’m a skeptic about all this early voting stuff. I think that in order to vote before election day you should have to sign an affidavit giving a valid reason for not being able to show up at the polls on election day.
But while my skepticism about early voting may not be universally shared, can we all at least agree that voting by telephone is a bad, bad idea?

To offset large election-day crowds and encourage citizen participation, states have expanded early and absentee voting. This year 31 states are letting voters vote early without stating a reason they cannot participate on election day, and 5 states allow voting by phone.

Hell, if we’re going to do that why not just turn the election into a season of American Idol? The candidates could do their performances, Simon and the gang could weigh in, and then we could all vote on our favorite candidate by text message!

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Early voting is good because people have jobs, children and other obligations and you shouldn’t have to wait in line for hours to vote.

AND!
For those that are registered in several different states, as an obama worker IS, they wouldn’t be able to vote in all those states on a single day!
PoJo

I, too, have a serious problem with this “EARLY VOTING” business! Why do people have to “vote early”?? We’ve gotten along thus far with one VOTING DAY, why does that have to change? If a person isn’t able to get to the polls on VOTING DAY, there is already the absentee ballot provision. I don’t like this early voting at all! I think it opens up the possibility of a lot more voter fraud!
PoJo

I’m sorry, but haven’t people ALWAYS had “jobs, children and other obligations” and STILL MANAGED TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY!
What kind of a country are we becoming that it’s too much difficulty to go to the polls on election day and VOTE! Think of the Iraqi’s and how they WALKED long distances, STOOD IN LINE FOR HOURS, and this under threat of possible terrorist attacks….and WE have to allow EARLY VOTERS to avoid the terrible difficulties of actually voting on ELECTION DAY!
http://www.wethepeopleforum.com/forum/forums.asp golfmann

Doesn’t the constitution stipulate a DAY?

What happened to THAT?
jesus christ you people need a

You people realize that “election day” has been changed before. It wasn’t always on a Tuesday in November. It was originally a 34 day period.

In fact, the DAY was chosen in 1845 because people had JOBS to attend to. The election has ALWAYS been a logistics issue.

You’ve read an American history book before, right? Fuck.

And some of you are borderline arguing against states rights, which is disturbing to say the least.
Neiman
HG

Early voting is good because people have jobs, children and other obligations and you shouldn’t have to wait in line for hours to vote.

So we ought to allow people to vote in a manner that undermines the integrity of elections and invites fraud.

Yeah, that makes sense… if you’re a liberal.
jesus christ you people need a

So we ought to allow people to vote in a manner that undermines the integrity of elections and invites fraud.

Yeah, that makes sense… if you’re a liberal.

It also makes sense… if you’re a founding father.

Last post on this, because I think I’m making my point pretty clear.

Election Day as we know it is not a Constitutional amendment.

The argument for the first Tuesday after the first Monday was that people traveled by horse and buggy at the time (Monday was a travel day, Tuesday people voted, Wednesday they went home before the Sabbath and without interfering with Saturday, a work day. AND this date would always fall within the 34 day period. This is in the Congressional record. Congress swiped the idea from the state of New York. You can even look it up. On the Internet. Just mash your fat greasy fingers into the Google search bar a few times.

That said, this idea of voter fraud is disingenuous and flies in the face of our republican and democratic principles (the ideas, not the parties). There are plenty of ways to keep fraud at bay. This country works best when we have a high voter turnout. Which is one of the reasons why North Dakota is a pretty great state that is by-and-large not completely boned by the current macro-economic insanity going on elsewhere in the country. We keep most of the BS to a minimum.
jesus christ you people need a

Ok, last one. Seriously. I was a bit wrong in my last post. I had to look it up.

Election DAY is defined in the constitution as the day votes are counted. NOT the day they are cast.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 4:

“The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”

It is up to the states to decide when the votes are cast, but they must choose their electors on the same day. Which wasn’t always the case. Before the change was made, there would be undue weight given to states that chose their electors later, say the first Tuesday in December.
jesus christ you people need a

Doesn’t the constitution stipulate a DAY?

What happened to THAT?

Yes. 34 of them, in fact. You should read the Constitution sometime. It’s freely available.
Hawk

Early voting is good because people have jobs, children and other obligations and you shouldn’t have to wait in line for hours to vote.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

“jesus christ you people need a history book”

That’s fine and all, but why are you telling Jesus Christ?
di butler

Likwid,

One would think Jesus already knows history pretty well, wouldn’t one?

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