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There's nothing stopping you from researching each proposal before going to vote at a polling place. The items on the ballot are not secret.
It's very worrying to me how many times I have seen this.
Yeah, and with mail-in I can take my time and do all of it at home. No need to try to memorize which way to vote on what or take some crib sheet with me.
It's a delight.
Especially when the questions are written in a way to make your second-guess your choice.
As far as I'm aware, all 50 states let you bring a "cheat sheet" into the Voting booth. Do your research at home at your own pace, write down your choices for each item, and bring that sheet into the booth with you.
I agree that vote by mail should be universal, but lack of it isn't an excuse to be uninformed at the polls.
I mean you CAN but it's much nicer to do it from home with the ballot in front of you and really take your time. I don't know why it's concerning. I've done both, I prefer at home.
i mean, for as long as i can remember in california have they given us a sample ballot we can take in with us, now they just give us our real ballot too
This conversation is about the advantages of mail-in ballots. Being able to research ballots ahead of time is not an advantage of mail-in ballots. In either case, you can have the ballot in front of you (either a sample ballot or a real ballot) and you are able take all the time you need to do your researching.
For someone to say that being able to research ballots ahead of time is an advantage of mail-in ballots suggests that there are people showing up polling places and realizing that they have no idea how they want to vote, resulting in them having to frantically research the issues and candidates on their phones at the polling booth or fill it out without being well informed. And that is worrying.
Well, yeah. Without mail-in voting that is something that is going to happen.
With mail-in voting, it becomes more like an open book test for those that want to look into things. Plenty of time to research things and fill it out at the same time, and at a relaxed pace. Versus some kind of frantic pop quiz at the tail end of a multi-hour wait in line.
I sure hope voters that have to vote in-person plan ahead, do research ahead of time and bring notes if they need them. I somehow doubt that all do.
Last time there was a simple choice:
1)First woman president who is also representing various minority groups.
2)A pedophile criminal convicted and indicted in many occasions. Paid off Stormy Daniels to suck his little peepee. Possibly murdered a baby and several women who he abused as kids. Worse show on NBC where everyone hoped he would get fired. Disrespectful to everyone, specially women.
OK sure, which is why I voted for Harris. Now why are you telling me this? It seems to have nothing to do with mail-in ballots.
I do mail in for the same reason. I get to study the issues before and during my vote. I take my time deciding.
The people who chose #2 clearly did not take their time.