Voting By Phone?
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!
