The Case Against Early Voting

Politico Magazine ^ | January 28, 2014 | Eugene Kontorovich and John Mcginns

[Sergio]

After the fall of Sadam, Iraqis stood in line, knowing they could be the victims of snipers or car bombs, to cast their votes. After casting their vote, they showed the purple ink on their finger with pride.

But in the USA, folks can’t be bothered to go a few miles to their local polling places.

[cripplecreek]

My union cousin is pushing for in house polling places at union shops operated by union members.

He claims he’s disenfranchised because he has to rush around to vote. I irritate him by reminding him of the week he took off of work to protest the passage of the right to work law.

[bert]

Was he paid tax free $$$ by the union?

[cripplecreek]

I don’t know if it was tax free but the company had to let him take the time for official union “duty”.

[beelzepug]

“I no longer believe the elections are “true”. Too many ways to cheat....and early voting is one of them.”

Others would be Motor Voter, vote by mail, same-day registration, provisional ballots, absentee ballots without a damned good reason, and no requirement for picture ID. But then, I’m just a dirty ol’ racist.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Now we would have to worry about the black panther party.

[deport]

So when did Ohio start early voting?

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I believe this is absentee early voting.
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/elections/Voters/absentee/inperson.aspx

[Popman]

Elections should be held on Saturday...from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm...

End of story...

Absentee ballots should be accepted for one week only...except for military overseas

[RC one]

No, it’s just early voting. The vote will be counted just like a vote cast on election day.

[RC one]

I always used to and I prefer that but my circumstances are strange presently. I could change my residency and take care of business on election day but then I would have a raging liberal democrat as a represntative instead of a tea party conservative. I will use the system that is in place. If it changes, I will tell my employer that I will need election day off to travel the 85 miles to my precinct station. I agree that there is too much opportunity for fraud and that the Democrats have been winning the majority of their elections via election fraud since around 1865. I would actually go so far as to say that there has never been an election free of fraud in America’s entire history of elections with the exception of the first few perhaps. Republicans ought to keep that in mind.

[RandallFlagg]

This would hurt people who work for a living and benefit those who sit around waiting on their government check. My circumstances are such that I usually have no choice but to vote early. I would be effectively disenfranchised if not for early voting so I don’t have a problem with it.

I'm with ya, FRiend.
I work 12-hour days, four days a week, rotating between dayshift and graveyards from 06:00 to 18:00, and from 18:00 to 06:00. And, I work in a different county from that which I am registered to vote.

Sometimes, it's just not possible to get off work at 18:00, fight traffic, just to end up being too late to get to the polls.

[ballplayer]

So fill out an absentee ballot,early voting is another way to cheat in elections,as Obama would say, PERIOD