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Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
It needs to be far more difficult to vote. Morons who can’t follow simple instructions on filling out and returning a ballot should not only not be given a provisional ballot, but should be banned from voting in this or any future election. The fewer idiots who have a say in the direction of the country, the better it is for the rest of us.
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What you meant to say is, we need to make it more complicated to vote, so less people can successfully vote, and so that even less people even bother with voting because it is too complicated.
EVERY time someone proposes to make voting harder, it's always coming from the GOP. Adding more voting restrictions hampers turnout. People who are eligible, think they are not eligible. People who are not eligible think they are not allowed to vote.
Voting needs to be more accessible. There needs to be means to ferry people to polling places if they are elderly, disabled, or do not own a car.
Otherwise, when you get people who look like they shouldn't be voting - like the 'bus loads of non-English speaking people being brought ahead in line' in SW PA, they were being brought to translators so that they can vote - getting called out by racist bigots who are too damn nebby.
You don't need to be able to speak English to be able to vote in this country.
And election day should be a federal holiday.
