The whole voting on a Tuesday work-day thing is, IMHO, a way to discourage lower income and/or non-white people from voting.
Or just discourage anyone who isn't too stupid, old or insane to hold down a regular job from voting. And those who are too stupid, old or insane to hold down a regular job blindly vote a straight ticket against their own self interest.
Most other developed nations set their voting day on the weekend when far more people are off work. Some make the voting day a national holiday. Combine the US voting day with other immoral practices, like Gerrymandering districts and operating as few polling places as possible in any lower income neighborhood. Add in how campaigns are financed. It's part of what makes the United States' form of government an insidious form of oligarchy.
Pretty much, yeah. Then you get right wing states like Oregon and Washington looking more politically balanced than, say, Oklahoma or Kansas, because it's actually possible for people who don't have a working Tuesday free to vote (and actually difficult to avoid voting). And then you get Oklahoma and Kansas, which are way more hella diverse and tolerant of that than the northwest ever was, and they come off as crazy because ballot access, either as a voter or as a candidate, is a three-ring circus and you're the lion jumping through the rings of fire. I've had to reregister to vote 3 more times than I've moved since arriving in Oklahoma and plan an entire day around dealing with it and an entire different day pounding the internet for information on what it is I'm even voting on. Which sucks, considering in contrast, I usually voted in pajamas or in my underwear (either way, if I was wearing proper pants, it was purely coincidental) with the voter's information pamphlet next to me and just put it down to come back to later anytime I got sick of looking at it (it'd usually take me a week or two to work through the ballot). Then ride past County Elections for the ballot box handoff to avoid having to pay for a stamp to mail it back.
I'm a white guy but it's easy even for me to see just how racist and class warfare-mongering our society is these days.
I think it's plainly obvious to anyone who has two braincells they can still rub together to spark a thought. Oklahoma used to have Election Day as a holiday, and it was a day that pretty much everything except the polling places, fire stations and police stations just plain weren't operating at all. Like you'd be lucky to find a convenience store open.
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