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Our voting system has to be fixed, everyone can recognize that there are too many conflicting policies and in the middle of a major election season is not the time for confusing people further. There should be a bi-partisan way of doing this that would make it easier for people to vote, and make election processes safer from tampering by nefarious means. People want to participate in democracy, so why is making it hard for them to do so in the best interests of our country?
Under Federal election law, the State determines how to hold elections. So the only process to keep track of is Indiana’s, and it is rather straightforward.
To answer your closing question, Mary: Because it is a citizen’s duty to make the time to vote on election day, period. If a citizen does not take that responsibility seriously, then they are probably too ignorant of U. S. history and the consequences of elections to vote anyway.
Provisions have forever been in place (and should be) for people who are physically unable or otherwise honestly unavailable to vote in person on election day. Whining for more provisions only lessens the importance of taking one’s civic duty seriously enough to take time to vote.
This from a poll worker of more than 30 continuous years, save one primary election in which I was recovering from cancer surgery.
In Indiana it is not bi-partisan. At the root of the problem is how districts are drawn to make sure one side always has a partisan advantage.
There also seems to be a belief among Republican lawmakers that the lower the vote turn out, the more likely Republicans will win, and so they seem to be working in every way that looks like it is legal to make sure that as few people can vote as possible. If they could have implemented a poll tax to keep poor people (likely Democrats) from voting, they would have. Instead they make sure that if you can’t afford to take time off work (likely poor working class people, ie likely Democrats), you won’t vote.
Bob P., I would agree with your point if you weren’t ignoring the fact we are in the middle of a pandemic which has killed 210,000 Americans.
Bob P., Thanks for calling me a whiner. Now I know which side you belong on, and it’s not the bi-partisan one.
The requirement to stand in line, potentially for hours, creates a disproportionate hardship on those who don’t have access to convenient transportation, or who work hourly or gig jobs. All but five states (Indiana is one of the 5) permit a voter to cast a ballot by mail without requiring an excuse/reason. This reduces the hoops one needs to jump through to vote by mail, and makes it easier to vote. That is a good thing. I wouldn’t necessarily characterize the voters in those 45 other states, who mail their ballots, as ignorant nor unserious. Indiana should adopt the policy used in 45 other states.
Its always so nice to know that the hillbilly legislature is supported by similarly construed courts.