Penelope
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No people who take time off work get paid for it. Its a federal law. People don't walk off the job and vote en masse. Some come in late, some leave early, some vote at lunch or take a break. How do you think it was done in the years before mail in voting? In places where there were hundreds of people eligible for voting like a major company or medical center the polling place was right there on the premises. Don't show your ignorance. It's unbecoming. We had in person voting a whole lot longer than mail in votingIf voting is important to someone, they can haul their ass down to the precinct and do it.
There need to be good machines and plenty of them so people don't wait for hours.
People work all kinds of hours and the poor people work 2 jobs just to survive, so mail in votes, if you want to vote in person just go ahead.
Like I said.....on that day. They are supposed to get time off from work to vote.
You just don't seem very aware.
When are they to sleep if they have 2 jobs, many people do.
They are supposed to get time off from work to go vote. What part of that don't you understand.
Without pay, its not even an holiday and most people don't want to take off work as they have a scant workforce and need the money, imagine if everyone took off work.
No cops , no fireman, hospitals would shut down.
By pony express.
Has the USPS been handling absentee and mail-in ballots since the days of the Pony Express, and did the process originate here or in England?
It didn’t exactly begin with the Pony Express, though it was during that era. We know that as early as 17th-century Massachusetts, some people could send in their ballots, and it also happened a little during the Revolutionary War. But the Civil War, which began at about the same time as the Pony Express, really marked the beginning of absentee or mail-in voting. Bear in mind that by the Revolution, most of those who could vote were white men with property, and the U.S. was well ahead of England in terms of democratizing the vote.
Civil or At War? Mail-In Voting and the 2020 Election
Snail mail ballots have a long history of success, says UNLV historian Michael Green, so why all the controversy?
www.unlv.edu
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