The Right To Vote
Thumbs up or thumbs down is a form of voting. Voice voting where those that shout the loudest is a form of voting. Pulling a lever on a voting machine next to a name was the modern standard for voting for a while. And then came punch cards where you punched out your choice and the votes were counted by a computer that counted the holes on a card was state of the art for a while. Back to the future we have gone back to paper ballots where the bubbles are recorded in a computer and tabulated.
You need to get your name on the list of voters. You vote.
It is really a simple problem to solve. I remember sheepishly(now) the phrase "free, white, and 21. I used the phrase at times when discussing or arguing shit with my folks while living with my parents. It got so bad I left my job, moved to West Virginia, and went to graduate school after a botched election in Dade County.
My right to vote has never been seriously challenged. Now it may be that if you wanted to vote by mail some group mail challenge your vote even if it was postmarked before November 3,2020. May be your vote could be challenged because your signature doesn't match up. I've been voting for almost fifty years and I'm sure my signature has changed from age 21. I live in Florida and remember hanging chads, butterfly ballots.
Long lines on election day because not all precincts are created equally. Fewer voting machines or fewer precincts, missing poll workers longer lines.
The bigger the sample less likely a chance for a sampling error. You don't have to vote. But you shouldn't have your right to vote blocked or suppressed for partisan, racial, ethnic or other spurious reasons.
Florida not in the barrel this time. Real time counting of mail in ballots was successful. Early voting worked. These two features should get bi-partisan support in a new voting rights act.
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