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At least 76% of American voters can cast ballots by mail in the fall
The coronavirus pandemic is set to change the way millions of Americans can vote in November, as states expand access to mail-in voting as a safer alternative to in-person voting.
As of now, nearly 180 million Americans who are eligible to vote would be able to cast a ballot by mail. Of those, 22 million live in states that will accept fear of the coronavirus as an excuse to vote absentee, or have switched to become “no excuse” states.
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia already allowed anyone to vote absentee. But many of these places are making the process easier. California will start proactively mailing ballots to registered voters, joining universal vote-by-mail states such as Colorado. Many states will send every registered voter an absentee-ballot application.
These types of statewide expansions affect another 63 million eligible voters. In some states like Nebraska, individual counties are planning to send mail-in voting applications in the absence of a statewide directive.
For voters in nine states, in-person voting remains the only option unless they can provide an approved reason not related to fear of the coronavirus. Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
I don’t even live in the US nor am I a US citizen, but oh how pleased am I to read this. One day your nation may be “great again” , but only after you despatch that evil fat orange cretin, then you may consider adopting the civilised voting system we have in Australia, 1. Voting is compulsory 2. It is preferential and 3. It is always available as postal voting as an option. .... oh and we don’t have a president, we just burrow the Queen of England as our head of state , for no other reason than ... she’s got class and a great taste in hats !
ReplyDeleteAnon - Thank you for your comment. I wish this country would have a system like yours. Sounds more sane and simple.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if I have to crawl to the polling place - I will vote. And vote to remove this piece of shit out of the WH.
ReplyDeleteHate to burst your bubble, but main-in voting is not safe. Trump's doing everything he possibly can to bankrupt and tie up the Post Office. He wants the USPS to raise its rates to the point it can't compete with private carriers like FedEx and UPS. And he's cutting overtime for Postal workers; they can't work overtime any more to deliver mail. Any mail which cannot be delivered that day must be returned to the Post Office. There it'll sit and sit until the carrier has the time available to go back and get the undelivered mail and then deliver it. This is all being done, of course, to "make the Post Office profitable and more efficient". This is MY soapbox platform, and I'm trying to encourage people everywhere to contact Congress to do everything possible to save the USPS (per the Constitution). If we can't save the USPS, then mail-in voting will fail.
ReplyDeleteRad & whkattk - Bravo for both of you! I'm lucky to live in Oregon, where we have automatic mail-in voting.
ReplyDeletePurple Wolf - I've read about that butt-hole mouth satan and his efforts to screw the USPS, mostly to screw mail-in voting. It's so blatant, and his cult followers drink it up.