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US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes
(www.theguardian.com)
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Isn't that the best? Choose vote by mail, get the ballot early. Do research and fill it out over weeks when you have time, and then just go to the polling place, skip the line, and hand it to them
Colorado has drop-off boxes, some of them are drive-through. Same as what you said, but you drop it off on a day that is convenient to you. You have a huge window of time to drop off your filled-out ballot.
It's a beautiful thing.
A truly free country would do everything possible to make voting as easy as humanly possible. People going the other direction are not interested in freedom. Even though they talk about "freedom" all the time it's the Southern version of "freedom".
The Republicans are trying to go so far as to claim that any votes that weren't finished counting by midnight EVEN IF DELIVERED shouldn't be counted
The conservatives can chortle my balls. Mail in voting is a wondrous thing.
India sends a team of 4-6 officials on a 3 day hike in a lion infested jungle to get the vote of a single person (caretaker of a temple)
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/5/8/an-election-booth-inside-a-forest-in-india-for-just-one-voter
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/officials-travel-deep-into-jungle-in-gujarat-to-allow-one-temple-priest-to-vote-idUSKCN1RZ1H0/
I've often wondered whether those officials look at it as a punishment posting, forced vacation, their job, or something else entirely
Nepal delivers medicine to remote communities in the Himalayas by drone. And India has much more money than Nepal.
This is probably a punishment position. It doesn't make any sense otherwise
Ya I guess I understand part of your point, but I think medicine/life saving equipment/ emergency supplies are something id expect any country to send, but with civil responsibilities like collecting one vote I wouldn't be surprised if any country in the subcontinent just says "too inconvenient/not worth the resources" that's all
Well, I could definitely see BJP saying that democracy isn't an ideal worth the effort to bother with..
Sure, I mean idgaf about the bjp and didn't mention them, but whatever floats your boat
I love it because I have anxiety and having the time to myself to do it is essential because my mind blanks if I'm anxious, which I usually am around other people.