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by maceurt 2690 days ago
The voter turnout for the average presidential election is < 50%. A lot of that is because people do not have ways to get to the polling stations.
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It really should just be a national holiday. I think I read one of the states decided to get rid of Columbus day and have a holiday on election day.
This can be fixed with early voting and absentee ballots.

No need for online voting.

It hasn't been fixed though, and we have early voting and absentee ballots. I mean, if we really wanted to fix it we could without using online voting, but that is just one positive upside of online voting is higher voter turnout.