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by alphager
1095 days ago
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> Maybe the problem of the "difficulty of getting to and from poll sites", which I can see arising due to the nature of this country being large, spread out, and automobile-centric. It's not just distance and cost, but time. Someone working 3 jobs simply doesn't have time to stand in line for hours. |
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> Someone working 3 jobs
According to the BLS[0], less than 5% of working-aged people hold more than one job, and presumably a fraction of that have three jobs. Surely society shouldn't optimize for a small minority of the population.
> doesn't have time to stand in line for hours
Data on this isn't great, but one source I found[1] puts a cursory total average across all states in 2020 at around 15 minutes, with the worst average wait time being Indiana at 42.1 minutes. It's confirmed by a 2020 academic paper[2] which puts the nationwide median at 14 minutes.
I can imagine that there are outliers who have to wait unpleasantly long, and that same paper referenced above indicates that people may have unequal voting wait times based on where they live. Ideally voting should be easy for all those eligible to vote.
[0]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat36.htm
[1]: https://www.lgbtmap.org/img/maps/citations-polling-place-lin...
[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00024.pdf