Edit: good to see I woke the shills
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If there is an invisible hand, it needs to stop this. I'll stop talking to anyone under the age of 28 ever again because if even one of you doesn't vote I just cannot forgive.
why are the American people not fighting for a vote reform, to make voting on Sunday, like in every reasonable country?
Voting on Tuesdays is just designed to keep normal working people from voting.
How can you all be fine with that?
What the fuck! Whichever day you vote, is a public holiday in my country. All institutions are obliged to do so.
We Can barely hang on to the shitty voting system we have. I can almost never make it to polls (and often work Sundays) but I used to receive automatic mail in ballots. Now I need to apply for ballots early before each election and many politicians are fighting to make it harder and harder to do mail in. Women's reproductive rights have back slid, internet freedoms have become restricted, vaccines are being required in schools and hospitals less not more. This guy is talking about progressive reforms and we are here just trying to dig fingernails into basic rights.
A lot of us aren't fine with it. One side benefits when less people vote. Our government is absolute shit at getting things done because half of politicians elected want to hinder all progress.
We vote by mail in my state. I love it. Me and The Wife sit down at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots together and then pop them into the mail and that's it. Granted, I live in a solidly blue state so my presidential vote basically doesn't matter anyway.
So retail workers can't vote because they work weekends? You're gonna screw someone over regardless of what day you pick.
In my state we have a minimum of two weeks of early voting including some weekend hours. I'd support some increases, but it's actually not that hard to vote if you just try.
under the age of 28 ?
It makes extra sense because it includes ages 0-17
I am still lost
They're assuming (probably correctly) that a lot of people under 28 won't vote, and that (probably less correctly) they'd vote Democrat if they did vote. So if Trump wins and they pass a random 28 year old on the street, they're thinking there's a good chance that person is partially responsible for Trump's win.
Appreciate the clarification
Ok that makes more sense thanks. 28 seemed very arbitrary but if the statistics say so...
Voter's paradox
It always does though
America's education system at work.
If you're in a state that goes consistently one way or the other, it's probably true that it doesn't matter. For president, at least.
I often vote third party, and I feel very comfortable doing that because my state is very consistent.
I'm very much against voter nihilism regardless of the statistics. Regardless of if I'm getting steam rolled or not, I'm putting pen to paper and I want the record to show that someone didn't agree with the mob - me, it was me. The US is a two party system and personally I think that sucks. You are definitely "throwing your vote away" by conventional wisdom in such a system, but if everyone thinks this way there is no hope for any traction or interest in advancing third parties - so I agree with this form of voter suicide.
Basically I think my vote matters even if it doesn't matter, so I vote for people I actually want. Lol. If there was a race where I had a strong preference between the two main party candidates and I thought my vote would have an impact, I'd ditch the third party for that race.
Every vote matters, but you can't expect it to matter more than someone elses.
Every vote matters. That's why I vote third party. Lol
Local elections can be decided by a handful of votes. If you don't think it matters who is in charge of the local government, you should read what happens when Libertarians take over.
So you're shooting yourself in the foot. You and everyone else who seems to think the ballot begins and ends with voting for who is president.