11-05-2012, 03:04 PM
Voting early is done as a convenience to both the voter and to relieve the "system" on voting day. To the extent it's permitted, the reasons WHY someone goes early are as irrelevant as are issues of who is "deserving."
Absentee voting is different and you historically? had to declare a reason for doing so.
In other words, I think it's unreasonable to show up, see long lines and immediately consider that everyone else is there because they can't be there on Tuesday and to go home. If doors are open, doors are open. Run the operation, and correctly.
At least that's my understanding of the intent.
The only way to "know" if people were voting "at the right time" vs. participating in a broken system (see? two different areas of blame) is to send everyone home if the lines get longer than some arbitrary number and deal with whatever overflow happens on election day --- assuming you having disenfranchised them and they don't even bother.
Absentee voting is different and you historically? had to declare a reason for doing so.
In other words, I think it's unreasonable to show up, see long lines and immediately consider that everyone else is there because they can't be there on Tuesday and to go home. If doors are open, doors are open. Run the operation, and correctly.
At least that's my understanding of the intent.
The only way to "know" if people were voting "at the right time" vs. participating in a broken system (see? two different areas of blame) is to send everyone home if the lines get longer than some arbitrary number and deal with whatever overflow happens on election day --- assuming you having disenfranchised them and they don't even bother.