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Election Reform

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:37 PM Sep 2012

Keep the polls open 6 AM to 9 PM in every state on election day.

States close their polls as early as 6 PM. Is that fair to working people? Some states open at 7 AM is that fair to early workers? Why on a day when millions of Americans take some time out of their day to go and vote do the people who run them make it harder on them by these skimpy hours. In the UK the polls close at 10 PM. I think a 15 hour voting window is a good idea in the end, but the GOP will never go for it . They do not want too many people to vote in the end.