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:agree: with everything you said. I realize that there may be good reasons for people to request an absentee ballot---business travel, planned hospital procedures, family vacations and so forth---but three weeks for early voting? C'mon, no one is that damn busy! At most, maybe one week could be allowed. We used to have one day to vote...Election Day...for year and years, and I don't recall problems with people being "disenfranchised," back then. This current trend to keep on extending the voting times is just :bs: in my opinion! If there was no early voting, there would be no problem with fraud, as you pointed out.
Plus the fact early voting isn't causing more people to vote, if when we only had one day to vote the percentage of the electorate who were voting was in the lower 60% range, how come with all this early voting and making it supposedly easier to vote, the percentages are now in the lower 50% range. Seems we have gone in the opposite direction.