Originally Posted by
WhiteMorpheus
A bunch of entitled people (of all ages) don't realize that for 250+ years people have traveled at their own expense to their polling places, which was no small feat, yet won't acknowledge that powerful reasons exist to retain in-person voting.
Online and mail-in voting sure sound simple and easy but they are a gateway for systemic voter fraud.
If you can't be bothered to show up on election day to vote, maybe you just shouldn't vote.
(Yes, I know he was pot-stirring, but I'll bite)
I'll take the bite as well. This has never been a country that is about keeping it the way we've always done it. We didn't become the greatest country in the world by being stuck in our ways. We innovate, we progress. We see flaws in a process and view them as opportunities to make it better, and hopefully earn a buck in the process.
The right to vote, in fair and free elections, is the single most important component of our democracy. Politicians control the methods for how we vote and for 250 years they have, for the most part, resisted changing the system as they were fearful of the political consequences.
I am lucky enough to live in one of the five states that has taken a more modern, convenient, and fair approach and has instituted mail in voting. It's awesome! You're mailed a ballot weeks before the election and it couldn't be easier to complete and send off. There has been no evidence of fraud, no complaints about voter suppression and leaves the citizens with little to no excuses for failing to vote.
So don't give me the tired horse crap hypothetical argument of "Gateway for systemic voter fraud". Utah, arguably the most red state in the country, votes by mail as does Washington, one of the bluest states and neither have had any evidence of fraud (Nor did Colorado, Hawaii or Oregon).