I know that there are people out there who travel, work second sift, etc. That have very valid reasons why they cannot get to the ballot on election day... and so in general I think early voting and absentee ballots are needed...
...But every year it seems like there is a bigger and bigger push to get people to vote early by days or even weeks. In my mind, if I cast my vote early it dramatically increases the chance that my vote will be tampered with. On election day we have lots of safeguards in place like election observers to help combat election tampering. But now two weeks before the election we have a voting machine sitting in the corner of a town hall where everyone down to the night janitor could fuck with it. Some places have paper ballots in sealed envelopes sitting on some clerk's desk until election day.
It seems like opening the voting window wide also opens the window of opportunity for election tampering. Stinks like a dead fish. Why would anyone trust this or think it is better?
I know that there are people out there who travel, work second sift, etc. That have very valid reasons why they cannot get to the ballot on election day... and so in general I think early voting and absentee ballots are needed...
...But every year it seems like there is a bigger and bigger push to get people to vote early by days or even weeks. In my mind, if I cast my vote early it dramatically increases the chance that my vote will be tampered with. On election day we have lots of safeguards in place like election observers to help combat election tampering. But now two weeks before the election we have a voting machine sitting in the corner of a town hall where everyone down to the night janitor could fuck with it. Some places have paper ballots in sealed envelopes sitting on some clerk's desk until election day.
It seems like opening the voting window wide also opens the window of opportunity for election tampering. Stinks like a dead fish. Why would anyone trust this or think it is better?
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