• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re bad, but Texans don’t vote. The laws don’t nearly begin to explain the turnout numbers.

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      1 year ago

      As a former Texan, it’s quite difficult to vote. The work culture there makes it even harder but the state also purposely makes it as inconvenient as possible. If you’re low income and don’t have vacation time or anything like that it’s really hard to get out and vote in-person. Now I’m in a state with mail-in voting by default and Texas makes me even more sick when I saw how easy it’s supposed to be.

      More people could definitely make more of an effort there, but the barriers to vote shouldn’t be overlooked imo

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        1 year ago

        Colorado? I grew up here and worry I don’t know how good I actually have it. I wouldn’t know where to begin if a ballot didn’t auto-magically appear in my mailbox. The system backing it up is so good that when it doesn’t show up magically, a new one is a phone call and a short walk away.

        If I don’t want to put a stamp on my ballot, I walk a half mile to drop it off

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          Colorado?

          Oregon! That’s cool to learn that Colorado is set up the same way. I wish it was implemented on a national scale though.

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        Imagine if you lived in a state where voting in person is so quick and easy that’s it’s not worth sending in the mail in ballot automatically sent

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          I have that option too, I just like to not wear pants when I vote now. They frowned on that when I tried to do that in person.