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Machiavellian on 08 December 2023
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Torillian said:
Shtinamin_ said:

Yikes, that is a big number.

You can change state boundaries, or at least try to. A couple counties in Oregon are trying to become part of Idaho, to create the State of Greater Idaho.

I do think it's weird that 2020 election was the highest percentage of Voted/VAP, Voted/VEP, and Voted/Registered than in any US Presidential Election.

I don't find it strange at all that the percentage was so much higher in 2020 as it was by far the easiest time I've ever had voting. I was in Michigan at the time and voting was a chore that took an hour or so and I felt like I was only informed on a couple races. In 2020 they opened up the ability for everybody to do voting by mail and it was amazing. So much more convenient and I got to sit there with the ballot and look up every single person to feel truly informed on my votes all the way down the ballot. I was so disappointed to see everything moved backwards after that towards more difficult and restrictive methods that will inevitably lead to more people not bothering. 

Pretty much this.  The ease of voting.  You know in big cities you could be in line for hours waiting for your chance to vote.  Mail in voting made that situation way easier and thus made participation so much easier.  Why do you believe the GOP wants to remove mail in voting.  It has nothing to do with fraud because there are many states that have been doing mail in voting for decades.  Its funny because a lot of the places where the GOP even approved mail in voting for their primary suddenly decided its way to compromised after the general election.

See the GOP knows that most of their constituents are in smaller cities and towns where voting only takes about 30 mins at best.  You only have to look at the maps of places where GOP constituents live to see that.  In bigger cities they usually vote Dems but also they are the places where they have reduced polling places in order to increase the wait time for voting hoping it will deter a lot of voters.

The reason the math does not work is because during 2020, it was very easy for everyone to vote and as a few GOP have even come out and made statements on it, that is not what they want.