🚨BREAKING: President Trump plans to make Election Day a national holiday, implement single-day voting, paper ballots, and government-issued voter ID .. WHAT AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

[u/TanviVats]

🚨BREAKING: President Trump plans to make Election Day a national holiday, implement single-day voting, paper ballots, and government-issued voter ID .. WHAT AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

[u/et_hornet]

What is single day voting?

Other than that everything sounds good

[u/Comprehensive-Tell13 → u/et_hornet]

That would be getting off the couch on nov5 and going and getting in line to vote on that day only.

[u/ReaganRebellion → u/Comprehensive-Tell13]

National holidays apply to very few people in this country. How are 200 million people going to be able to vote in 12 hours?

[u/Comprehensive-Tell13 → u/ReaganRebellion]

The Same way they do it where there isn't mail in ballots and the way it's been done before the country came up with that lame ass excuse to justify mail in ballots.

Other than that I have no idea.

Personally I don't have a problem with having a ballot mailed to me so I can take my time filling it out. What I have a problem with is the ability to send it back and having someone have possession of it a month before election day.

[u/ntvryfrndly → u/ReaganRebellion]

India can do it with 1457 million people, so why can't the USA?

[u/ProphetBlade → u/ntvryfrndly]

India is willing to fly helicopters to people living in isolated mountains that aren't easy to traverse in order to drop off and pickup their ballots. Do you think the US is willing to do that for every person that lives in isolated areas? No? Probably why we have mail in ballots I guess.

[u/et_hornet → u/Comprehensive-Tell13]

Ah ok

[u/Vintagepoolside → u/Comprehensive-Tell13]

Yeah but we can’t just ignore the vast amount of people with disabilities, childcare, elder care, etc. what about them? Especially in rural areas, where setting that up for yourself is not as simple as having someone else do it or help.

[u/Comprehensive-Tell13 → u/Vintagepoolside]

I believe that would be called absentee voting and something Trump is in favor of. However the exception should not be the excuse for everyone which is exactly how mail in ballots started to begin with.

[u/Vintagepoolside → u/Comprehensive-Tell13]

I think some people are underestimating just how many people that would be. My home state has such a high rate of disabilities, and that’s not going into the issues of no public transportation, the distance some people will have to go to vote, etc. there are so many that the exceptions would be greater than the non-exceptions.

[u/Comprehensive-Tell13 → u/Vintagepoolside]

Wait what, are you saying there's a state where there is more disabled people living off the government than people that aren't 🤔 man what the hell kinda disease has the country come down with.

[u/Vintagepoolside → u/Comprehensive-Tell13]

I’m not talking just about the disabled persons, but also the people who are caretakers. When the state is so poor they aren’t paying someone to do that, it’s a family member(s) doing it. And, again, I’m talking about my home state which is literally at the “top” of every negative statistic you can imagine, so yes, the rates are high and the amount of other people “helping out” is high.

Edit: I looked it up, almost 20% of the state has a disability, and those are the ones actually reporting and doing anything about it. Many of them, my own mother included, should be on disability but won’t do it for pride reasons.