• fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml
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          No postage needed in California, nor Massachusetts if I recall correctly. Does your state really make you find a stamp to vote in 2024? That sucks, sorry to hear that.

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        I mean, at least put it on the weekend, like other countries (or at least mine).

        Allow early in-person voting centres and postal votes. Make it convenient.

        Though, maybe these are only widespread in mandatory voting counties (like mine), because you’d get massive complaints if it wasn’t convenient.

        Turnout is unsurprisingly, very high here.

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          You don’t have public transit on national holidays and Sundays? Next you are going to ask who is going to work in hospitals and restaurants

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      The government should pass a law that it’s required to vote, or give a reasonable explanation why you can’t. Employers are punished for keeping their employees from voting.

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        Hi, it’s me, Australia, you might remember me from such democratic innovations as the secret ballot and mandatory voting, America will never have mandatory voting because it works about as well as gun control, single payer health care, and the metric system.

        Also many places have mandatory voting but very few enforce it, I would put money on America being one of those places if it somehow got a foothold.

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        That is.

        It reminds me of a time I got arrested for giving a nice old lady a bottle of water while she was waiting in line to vote in Georgia and it became a big deal. I got charged, convicted and sentenced to prison time but luckily my friend Jerry Seinfeld springs Larry out of jail after he discovers a juror broke his sequester, causing a mistrial and the sentence being thrown out.

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      If they gave out monopoly pieces and gave away $1m they would have the entire working poor who don’t vote participate.