Quote: (11-05-2012 01:15 AM)Pacesetter20 Wrote:For starters, in most places, they don't bother counting absentee ballots unless the race is tied and there are enough absentee ballots to make the difference. That's a costly and tedious process.
Is anything preventing these people from voting on the actual election day? Is anything preventing people from obtaining an absentee ballot in the case they won't be present on election day?
But please keep complaining about the grand conspiracy theory that Republicans are trying to dis-enfranchise voters by closing on-time for early voting and heaven forbid, making people show I.D. to prove they are who they say they are when casting a ballot.
Not all employers give their employees time off from work to vote.
The places that have made the biggest push to stop early voting are swing states with a lot of Republican politicians and large numbers of Democrat voters, and minority populations.
The move for early voting happened largely as a result of Republican bullshit in places like Ohio and Florida during the '04 elections. I'm talking about bullshit like giving out 30 voting machines in white republican districts, and only giving 2 or 3 machines to a district comprised of mostly minorities who tend to vote Democrat. And yes, that shit happened.
And there were only about 80 dead people who voted in the 2008 election out over 100 million living voters. Those numbers aren't significant enough to justify the games the Republicans have decided to play.