• GingerPale@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What he’s talking about sounds like a mess. Single day voting on Election Day? What about people that are abroad, military or otherwise? People who can’t vote that day (medical procedure, etc). Then, having another election to decide again?! What if that one is in question? I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to election law, but this doesn’t pass the sniff test at all.

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      The lack of sincerity of these candidates is becoming normalized. The same-day voting has nothing to do with what makes sense or not. What they are pitching is what historically will be most beneficial to their party. That is the real issue.

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        Unfortunately, the US is so big that I don’t think single day voting would ever work. The entire population of Ireland is smaller than Philadelphia, Pennsylvania alone. Plus, we have our military flung far and wide across the globe and they should have a vote in the which dipshit politicians fling them around the next round.

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        1 year ago

        OK, but I’m in Ireland for over a decade, would you prefer I didn’t get to vote (for the democratic candidate in a swing state)?

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            well… just to say, I’d never vote for austerity, or to cut education. cutting education in the US is partially what got us into this mess

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                I hear you. For me I don’t mind, and I’m happy to be able to vote even though I don’t live there. Way more left leaning people live out of the US than do right leaning people. They often don’t leave their hometowns, cause, you know, cities are scary