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Thursday, October 30, 2008

What's Wrong with Early Voting

I am appalled at the concept of early voting. I feel this way for several reasons:

1. Early voting allows an opportunity for people to try to vote more than once. And if you think this doesn't happen, you're not paying attention.

2. I thought absentee voting was to allow for people who can't get to the polls on election day? Early voting is an unnecessary expense, taxing already-stretched local funds.

3. Early voting doesn't allow voters to consider late-breaking information about their choice. For example, what you voted for candidate A, then 2 days after you voted, it was revealed that he was a pedophile.

4. Early voting is nothing but an effort to get people to cast a vote for people who are really excited about a candidate; it's favored by some candidates because they are afraid that the voters' fervor will subside, and good sense will replace that emotion. In this way, it's a method to slanting an election.

We should do away with it, because early voting is really nothing but a ploy to steal an election.

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