In Reply to: Traump wants to ban mail in voting and voting mach posted by russsmith on August 18, 2025 at 07:51:49
issues of (a) Tuesday voting and (b) the absolutely worse than dismal state of ballot box availability in this country, especially in urban areas.
Iff
1. Either moved election day to a weekend and make it two days OR make election day a national paid holiday, AND
2. Maybe exponentially increase the number of available polling places in high density urban areas such that people don't have to wait more than 20 mins to cast their vote, AND
3. Have a robust early voting system in which people can cast their votes, perhaps in reasonably fewer polling places, two, maybe three weeks before
THEN I'd be ok with limiting vote by mail to only people with mobility problems: the old, the hospitalized, whatever.
The idea is simple: if you're going to remove voting by mail, then you need to make the ballot boxes way way waaaaaaay more available and accessible than they are today.
This is an "if and only if" relation, not the simple "if/then". I trust that trolls who claim to have a technical background would understand the difference.
That's my take.