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Erarly voting in Oklahoma. Lets hope this isn't our last election. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

How the fuck does the US manage to make people stand in line for early voting?

In every civilized country, you can show up on election day (when basically everyone has a free day cause it's Sunday), you vote with maybe 3-4 people in line before you, and you're done after 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dont know I live in America, longest it has ever taken me to vote on Election Day is 20 minutes, yet people are still waiting in long lines to early vote this year. Typically few people early vote so there are fewer early voting places. But that is not the case this year, so we have giant early vote lines. I am not sure why my neighbors are waiting in long lines to early vote when it will take 10 times as long as in Election Day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you don’t know you live in America you should quickly go check. It makes a big difference knowing where you live!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the things conservatives are doing is to limit the number of polling stations per X square miles. This is done in the name of fairness and spending, but it disproportionately impacts urban voters more than rural, and thus impacts areas of more progressive voters.

I'd guess this is a larger population center of Oklahoma.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I could have been more clear I guess. I was not trying to question why other people early vote, only why people around me do.

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