Making everyone vote in a 12 hour period is archaic & stupid.

[Philosoraptor]

We should be able to vote for at least a week, instead of forcing everyone to do it all in one day, and only during the daylight hours. How antiquated and quaint is this?

I don't know, I'm just throwing out suggestions trying to help.

I guess Diebold throws a wrench into it anyway.

[shadowknows69]

1. We can't have the working class voting whenever they want

they might actually get out and do so.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Voting on one specific day, especially a tuesday, is ridiculous.

There has to be a better way, so more people can arrange to vote based on their schedules.

Why can't this archaic system be replaced?

[Philosoraptor]

3. There's got to be a better way.

Plus, I think maybe a voter's test, like a diver's license test, and all qualified adults should be required to vote, or be fined, like Australia does.

Even snow and rain will stop some from voting, and who has time to pick up the kids from daycare and make it to the polls and stand in line in the sleet?

Make it last a week or a month, but 12 hours?

[The2ndWheel]

11. Required to vote for one of two parties?

Or are we changing the system completely?

What are the standards to be a qualified voter? How would one fail such a test? What are the questions? What's the fine?

[elehhhhna]

8. ...unless they make it a National Holiday.

[marions ghost]

4. early voting

or a voting period of about 2 weeks, works very well. I've done it the last couple of elections and in theory, it's great. no lines, convenient. And more people vote. A plus all around.

Now if we could clean up the election system we might not have to worry that votes don't count no matter when you do it.

[shantipriya]

5. voting

We are not a democracy!The voting rules and infrastructure are porposely antiquated so as to favor the connected and the elites.

[Philosoraptor]

6. You're right, electoral college, Diebold, Supreme Court, we're screwed.

The odds are against us for sure.

[marions ghost]

7. bingo

the antiquated, byzantine dysfunctional system that we have now benefits the self-serving Powers That Be very very well. They have NO incentive to fix it.

[Warpy]

9. Some states have early voting

but only in general elections.

What's truly archaic is having it on a WEEKDAY, a workday, that avoids the agrarian town market day. This is beyond stupid!

Honestly, folks, either allow people to register close to where they WORK or change the voting to all day Saturday and all day Sunday, allowing people who work on weekends to vote near their JOBS.

In a country where over an hour commute from one's workplace is almost a norm, it makes NO SENSE to try to have people either get up an hour early to vote or to race home at night, dodging speeding tickets, to get home before the polls close, not to mention what that does to child care arrangements---all while the polls sit mostly empty during the day.

The truth is that the rich men who run this country don't want working people to vote, to have a voice. That's why we've kept this idiocy in place while maintaining the anachronistic and antidemocratic electoral college.

[MadHound]

10. I've never found it to be any sort of problem

And this is no matter whether I've been working days, evenings or nights:shrug: Also, if you're housebound or going to be gone, or just don't want to deal with the line, you can vote absentee ballot, at your leisure. In addition, I believe that it is a national law that your employer has to give you three hours off on election day in order to go vote.

I've never experienced any difficulty voting, either in urban or rural areas, your mileage may vary:shrug:

[CrispyQ]

12. It's absolutely asinine!

We had early voting in our county for the '04 election & it made such a difference. We had a week of voting prior to the election. On Election Day there were approx 236 precincts open. However, the week of early voting there were only a handful throughout the county.

I waited longer to vote the Friday before than if I had just gone in on Tuesday. lol

[sweetheart]

13. Continuous voting

I'm for a continuous count. You can log in, and change your vote at any
point in time, just like you can change your bank account. Make internet
access ubiquitous, provide security keys and password administration as part
of continuous voting.

A poll would be called when the continuous support diminished below 30%, or
say every so many years, but the real-voter's intent would be constantly there
to afford politicisans real feedback.