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Why is trump lashing out on facui?
This is encouraging, and it’s an issue with strong bipartisan support.
“Overall in these counties, teenage pregnancy rates dropped by 1.5 percent in the first year of TPP funding, but fell by approximately 7 percent in the fifth year of funding for an average reduction of over 3 percent during the studied period.”
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/february/federally-funded-sex-education-programs-linked-to-decline-in-tee.html
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I prefer a hybrid - mail in, drop off, early in person, or day of in person. If you truly want more people to be able to engage in the process then it has to be a variety of options.
My husband and I are going to do early voting, but mail in works better for our daughter at college two counties away from her home precinct. My mom will do drop off because there’s a drop box near her workplace, and my sister will do day of because she’s late for everything.
@OP so what you’re saying is you don’t actually believe what you stated in your actual post? We already have all of these options to vote...I voted by mail in college as absentee, but will certainly go to my polling place for this election. I think saying we should only do mail in voting is asinine as our postal service infrastructure and means of counting could never handle all 150+ million Americans voting by mail. Not now and certainly not in the last decades
OP- That’s a pretty broad brush to paint. I agree that mail in ballots should be available in those states that are not handling the pandemic well.
But to say the goal of anyone who disagrees with compulsory mail in voting across the country is voter suppression is a bit much. There are serious concerns about the ability of cash strapped state governments to compile accurate voter rolls in a short period of time. There are currently ongoing self prescribed and court ordered voter registration clean up efforts that have been going on for almost a decade...
The below focuses solely on the effort going on in LA county, but is indicative of the nation wide problem:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-5-million-inactive-voters-from-voter-rolls-settle-judicial-watch-federal-lawsuit/
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I don’t think this is only relevant to mail in voting. This is relevant to voting in general. This impacts poll stations as well
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Mail in is sketchy.
Fauci even said there’s no reason to not vote in person if appropriate measures are taken to ensure safety (as are done for grocery shopping).
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If mail in is so sketchy, why have states like Oregon and Washington never had problems in the 15+ years they've been doing it? This is a sad reflection on our education system because it's quite clear critical thinking is dead.
If you can have massive protests AND masks work, 99% of people should vote in person.
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I think we should vote in person and I have signed up to be an election judge.
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I'm against it because it will make our voting less secure and less accurate (USPS has said they cannot meet the delivery requirements, which will lead to many votes not being counted or lost entirely).
Even Dr Fauci said if you can go to the grocery store you can vote.
Why not have all options available?