States in two time zones need split primary times

[jmowreader]

There are fourteen states in this fix: Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, both Dakotas, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas. As it now stands, if...oh, Florida...closes its polls at 7 pm, the western counties that are in Central time are voting an hour after the Eastern time counties close their polls...and if the Eastern time counties announce their results right after the polls close (such as if Marco Rubio sweeps that end of the state) it effectively disenfranchises the counties whose polls are still open.

There's an easy fix: open and close the Eastern counties a clock hour after the Central counties, so that all polls open and close at the same Greenwich mean time.

[longship]

1. Interesting. You may have a good point.

Not sure, but it seems like a good idea.

My preference is to revamp voting procedures nationwide by:

1. Making voting an absolute right of all citizens with a Constitutional Amendment.
2. Elimination of voter ID laws, since they do nothing to impede voter fraud -- which at any rate is not a problem, therefore the laws are an unnecessary burden.
3. Move Election Day to a weekend, a contiguous 48 hours in every time zone, so that polls open and close simultaneously everywhere.
4. Insure that employers give all citizens a right to take time off to vote.
5. Outlaw Gerrymandering and take redistricting out of the hands of state houses. Another Constitutional Amendment, or the same one as in item 1?

That would be the kind of thing that I could support.