(You see, just because you're opposed to Early Voting doesn't mean you want to disenfranchise voters.) http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/22/half-the-u-s-can-vote-early-today-5-reasons-its-bad/ …
@EricKleefeld I'm find with that. But show your ID -- and vote on Election Day (unless you have a valid excuse to vote absentee.)
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@mattklewis Could be fine with Voter-ID — *if* we had mandatory ID cards! (No actual opinion on that.) But that's what other countries do. -
@EricKleefeld you mean you would compel people to vote? -
@mattklewis That's a separate issue. (Fun fact: enacted in Australia by conservatives in the 1920's.) But I just mean mandatory ID cards. -
@EricKleefeld ah. Not familiar with the cards. -
@mattklewis And in Australia, technically don't have to *vote* — just cast a ballot. If you hate choices, can cast blank, write obscenities. -
@mattklewis For what it's worth, I kind of agree on loss of community feeling in early voting. But I agree with the pluses, make tradeoff.
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@mattklewis I live in deep blue, majority-minority precinct in Brooklyn, waited in cold 2-hour line in 2012. I would've liked early voting! -
@EricKleefeld I live in Virginia. We have it -- and I've done it. It's convenient for me personally, but collectively problematic. -
@mattklewis Convenient for you personally, but collectively problematic? So you do concede that collective needs can trump individual good!
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