06-11-2020, 04:37 AM
(06-11-2020, 03:17 AM)Benton Wrote: You live in Kentucky, right? We're pretty fortunate here in that we don't have a lot of poll manipulation. Voters in states like Georgia where you may need to bring two meals and a lawn chair to vote would probably disagree that it's not difficult to cast your vote.
The EC was, in part, established because of the time and distance issues in voting, along with preventing someone democratically elected but who was a potential danger. Which, largely, shouldn't be an issue now for the time and distance as we have the technology. Opting not to use it in favor of making the voting process as difficult as possible doesn't seem to be in the spirit of making everyone vote equal.
I think Georgia has some scrutiny coming their way. In this political climate, it's going to be tough for them do get by with "coincidentally" setting polling locations in black communities up to put people in situations where they have to spend half a day in line. It won't be forgotten this time around.
Here in KY, it seems like it might actually be more of a pain to vote in person. They're really pushing this vote by mail thing hard, to the point where actual polling locations seem a lot fewer and far between, unless I'm misreading things.
