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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarc Elias: "...no voter should have to wait more than half an hour to have an opportunity to vote."
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@marceelias
REPORTERS--When you cover long-lines, note that the 2014 Presidential Commission on Election Administration "concluded that, as a general rule, no voter should have to wait more than half an hour in order to have an opportunity to vote."
https://web.mit.edu/supportthevoter/www/files/2014/01/Amer-Voting-Exper-final-draft-01-09-14-508.pdf
@marceelias
REPORTERS--When you cover long-lines, note that the 2014 Presidential Commission on Election Administration "concluded that, as a general rule, no voter should have to wait more than half an hour in order to have an opportunity to vote."
https://web.mit.edu/supportthevoter/www/files/2014/01/Amer-Voting-Exper-final-draft-01-09-14-508.pdf
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Marc Elias: "...no voter should have to wait more than half an hour to have an opportunity to vote." (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
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Cha
(297,767 posts)1. Rt KR!
Stallion
(6,476 posts)2. Vote the Bastards Out
this is actually an issue that might be persuasive to the far left and/or independents who condemn mainstream politics. Appeal to maintain their right to vote
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)3. That's still too long (in my humble opinion)
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)4. K&R
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)5. In my very white, majority R area where I've voted since 1994,
neither my husband nor I have ever had to wait more than 30 minutes. Usually about 10. And we have never been asked to show ID.
The discrepancy between our experience and that of many of our fellow Americans is blatantly unfair and unacceptable.
Nevilledog
(51,212 posts)6. +10000
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)7. Long lines are designed to suppress the vote
Nevilledog
(51,212 posts)8. Absolutely.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)10. +1, and we on the left don't understand the efficacy of this tactic If we did people would be ...
... put in jail and this issue nipped in the but the first time.
Jose Garcia
(2,606 posts)9. Which is why many states have implemented vote by mail