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Screaming_brain t1_iu58ylj wrote

Do you have the internet?

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koushunu t1_iu7454t wrote

And if you don’t, city hall (where you pick up your ballot in person) will have a list of the candidates.

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Kodiak01 OP t1_iu59zxx wrote

Do you spend half an hour googling candidates at the voting booth?

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Sid21EA91 t1_iu61ny6 wrote

Ballot questions and candidate date positions are available weeks if not months ahead of Election Day. A 10 minute session on google will inundate you with all the information you could possibly ask for. I seriously don’t understand your point.

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Kodiak01 OP t1_iu6d1bp wrote

And how many people that vote that you know of actually go off anything other than whats been stuffed in their mailbox or their ears via media?

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Flimsy-Field-8321 t1_iu5czyb wrote

There is plenty of info on all of the candidates for a long time before the election. No excuse absentee ballots are a good idea for a myriad of reasons and to say that both sides want people to vote without information is just false.

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Kodiak01 OP t1_iu5dhav wrote

I said that many on both sides DON'T want people to have all the information. They want voters to show up, realize they had no idea that half what is on the ballot is even being contested, and blindly vote the party line instead of being able to make a truly informed decision.

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Flimsy-Field-8321 t1_iu610mo wrote

Well the Dems have worked for years to get no excuse absentee balloting and early voting. Repubs have tried to block it at every turn. Seems to me that one party wants to help people vote (knowledgeably) and the other - doesn't.

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Kodiak01 OP t1_iu6d7r3 wrote

I'm a Republican and I want early voting, absentee voting, and most importantly a change from closed to semi-closed Primaries similar to MA where the Unenrolled can pick whatever party's ballot they want on Primary Day.

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Flimsy-Field-8321 t1_iu6ddhn wrote

You are not representative of your cohort unfortunately. But it is wonderful you feel that way.

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Kodiak01 OP t1_iu6e2g8 wrote

If I'm going to tagged with all the kooks on my side, the other side must endure the same. That would make all Democrats meth-peddling, gangbanging cop killers that go shooting at Congressmen during charity softball games.

Are you?

If a comparison or insinuation is good enough for one side, then it must be good when employed in reverse.

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