Many states already have early voting from 14 to 30 days. In fact, the majority of the states already have early voting. So, what would be so wrong with the system being uniform? Why would that bother you so much?
Why don't they go ahead and just let everyone start voting after the primaries are over and the nominees have been selected?
Why wait until 40, 30, 20 or less days before the actual voting day ... Why the heck do we have a day specifically for voting if it really doesn't matter?
Why not just let everyone write in their desired candidate today and forget about having to show up to vote anywhere at anytime?
Why are we even voting ... Why don't we just let the politicians/candidates tell us how to do things and when to do them?
Man oh man ... This crap is hilarious ...
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Yes, the crap you wrote is indeed hilarious.
The electorate is almost 10 times larger than it was in 1908. Our world has changed, our lifestyles have changed, our ways of travelling and doing work have changed, and now it is time for our method of electioneering to change as well.
Many really huge precints are thankful for early voting, because it allows them to process election day voting more efficiently. Remember, poll workers are volunteers and every vote is to be checked by at least two poll workers, one from each party.
I suppose you could just call them all absentee ballots, but the effect is the same.
One day, voting will take place on the internet and I bet very strongly that a 48 hour time period will be specified for voting and then that's that, for with internet voting and a retinal code, you could vote from pretty much any terminal in the world with internet access.
I don't think you have even the faintest idea how much hard work goes into managing and processing elections - and these people do it for free.
In essence, in Oregon, it is ALL early voting. People have one month to mail in their ballot and then that's that. A polling place is not even necessary. It also looks as if Oregon will be the first state in the Union to have automatic voter registration as of a person's 18th birthday. They are pretty damned efficient in Oregon.
Your problem is that you are locked into a romantic vision of everyone going out on one day to vote, when in reality many millions have made up their minds already. There are millions who work second shift and have a hard time getting to the polls on election day. Some people work double shifts and absolutely cannot get to their polling place. And in your romantic version, the polling places are not packed to the core until 11 PM, and there are no overworked, exhausted poll workers, as often happens in the large cities.
The constitution outlines absolutely NONE of the actual nuts and bolts of electioneering. It has emerged as a (faulty) patchwork of methods put together by each state. If you ask people who live in Nevada, they will tell you that they love early voting.
BTW, after the 2012, a non-partisan commission was put together to study some of the flaws of the 2012 election. The commission was headed up by Obama's lawyer AND Romney's lawyer, and one of the recommendations of the commission was indeed: uniform early-and-absentee voting procedures throughout the Union.
So, what Hillary Clinton is recommending is not all that novel. It's just good common sense.
