🚨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/Easy_Collection_4940]

What about ppl who don’t have a place to vote and have to vote by mail? I ask because I am in that scenario. I live in an unorganized township that doesn’t have a polling place for me to vote at. Am I an exception or will I not get to vote?

[u/CrimsonChymist → u/Easy_Collection_4940]

You have a polling place. You may not know where it is, but you have one.

[u/Easy_Collection_4940 → u/CrimsonChymist]

I don’t. I get a ballot in the mail. I can mail it in or drive two hours to drop it off two hours away at my county office where I have to pay for parking in a lot that fits about 20 cars. This would be a nightmare for my area.

I’m all for in person voting but I wouldn’t support something that makes me have to drive two hours to vote where I have to drop my ballot off. In my area, republicans would lose votes in closely contested elections if he did this. Definitely needs to make exceptions if he does this.

[u/Vintagepoolside → u/Easy_Collection_4940]

Yeah no one is thinking about these situations. It’s not just going up to the local place real quick, it will be much harder on the places that don’t have adequate resources.

[u/Easy_Collection_4940 → u/Vintagepoolside]

Exactly. In theory, it sounds great but a lot of those who voted for him, myself included, will have a lot of trouble doing this unless he establishes guidelines for polling places within x miles/minutes from your home or exceptions like mine. The former places a burden on already limited resources of small towns/townships and the latter keeps open some potential for voter fraud. However, losing small areas like mine, where a republican won by 300 votes, will impact future elections.

[u/Vintagepoolside → u/Easy_Collection_4940]

I’ll be honest, I didn’t vote for him, but I try to consume equal parts of media for the parties. (Truly felt bad no matter who I would vote for). But anyway, I’m from a RED state, and the state also has a very high rate of disabilities, and lack of resources in general. The state is so red that I doubt this would affect them much in terms of who wins, but I still believe everyone should have the ease of access to voting. Whether I agree or not, what makes our freedom the best is being able to vote accessibly.

[u/Easy_Collection_4940 → u/Vintagepoolside]

You said it, voter accessibility. I’m in a blue state with my county and township voting red. I would imagine there’s the reverse happening in other states. I don’t want anyone to lose access to voting simply because they are too rural.