OHvol40
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I've gone through multiple background checks.Never gone thru a background check have you?
You've been doing plenty of repression.
Also lol at a month, straight to hyperbole.
Here is information on the trends. What is your opinion on it?It all depends on what the reasons were given for the closures, which you have avoided giving.
I dont think its unreasonable to have a universal standard across the board. That's the federal government way. You dont get extensions or easier ways thru unless you go through a process to prove it's actually needs based.Decent question being asked by folks. Why do some on here want to make it harder to vote? Lets drop the whataboutism and nonsense. I mean, why do you want to make it harder for people to vote?
Here is information on the trends. What is your opinion on it?
Southern U.S. states have closed 1,200 polling places in recent years: rights group
http://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/reports/Democracy-Diverted.pdf
Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote
7 specific ways states made it harder for Americans to vote in 2016
Waiting to Vote
Voter confusion abounds in places around Pennsylvania due to consolidated polling places
In Some Counties, Alabama Voters Have Lost a Quarter of Their Polling Places Since 2010 - BirminghamWatch
That’s why you prefer to make it more of an inconvenience?
I’m not positive, but I think the question was referring to reducing polling sites in the most populated areas.
If voting isn't important enough for you to take a few hours out of your day once or twice a year, maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Voting was never an inconvenience even when people had to travel by horse and buggy a day or so just to get to the pols.
The trend does seem disturbing and the closures are based upon a SCOTUS decision changing the notification being mandatory to the DOJ and getting their approval before making the changes to polling places. Is that correct?
Well, in reading all those links, there were reason given for the closures and they "seemed" reasonable, "building no longer available, population change, (combining, which also lead to those that got bigger by splitting/adding a site), etc.
If the closures aren't reasonable, why haven't suits been filed to challenge the closures? Maybe they have, can't say that I know because I haven't looked into it.
I'm still waiting for you to provide a specific example of a closure that you found most problematic. That should be easy as it seems Ohio (and the South) seem to have been the areas where this has occurred the most.
I looked at Obama as being a narcissistic, condescending elitist. I still would have voted for him if I liked his policies.How you view Trump's policies will usually depend on a political bias, but how you view Trump's conduct will have more to do with your sensibilities concerning integrity and decorum. You don't have to be a liberal democrat to be put off by Trump's behavior. He is narcissistic and obnoxious.
Reducing polling sites is a county/city decision, feds and state governments rarely have any say in it. So you might want to talk to the dem leaders of those municipalities and ask them why they reduced polling places.
Sorry. Should have specified. Have you gone thru a background check to actively use/express a right?I've gone through multiple background checks.
The "month" was only for the morons who would have said "I'd wait as long as it takes".
The point is obvious (I would think - but I'm increasingly surprised by how many seem oblivious to the obvious), there is a point at which a person's time becomes more valuable than their vote.
A precinct with an average wait time of 15 minutes will attract some voters who would not have voted if the average wait time was three hours.
I don’t think it’s up to you to decide whether or not it’s more difficult or inconvenient, I think it’s whatever the voters say it is. If a lot of people are saying it is, then it is.
My understanding here in Georgia is that the state branch sets resources and it's up to the individual districts to work with those resources. There has pretty much never been enough resources which is why most staff are volunteers. Here locally they shuttered some places that had smaller crowds so that the same resources could go to the places with longer wait times. The idea being it's more efficient overall.Honestly, I thought it was a local decision too, but apparently we’re wrong.
Maryland to drastically reduce number of polling places in November, despite gov's concerns of disenfranchisement