Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And it’s changing the electoral map going into 2024.
Middle aged people turn out to vote and they also have jobs. You do not have an excuse for not voting unless you are physically prevented, eg your town placed voting machines on the second floor of a building with no stairs and you are in a wheel chair, or because it is your conscious choice to not support either candidate.
There are absolutely people who are prevented from voting if the location is too far and they don’t have a car. That’s part of the argument that voting locations shouldn’t be at college campuses. Students there are much less likely to have a car and therefore can’t go very far. One politicians argument was literally that the college students would roll out of bed, vote, and go back to sleep.
Closing polling locations and forcing mass amounts of people to use one location is also a valid reason. Not getting time off is a valid reason. A lot of people in the restaurant service industry work double shifts days in a row, especially in management rolls that can easily add up to the entire early voting period. Disallowing bussing from churches does disenfranchis people, primarily POC, which is the point.
There’s a reason Republican politicians enact these things. Because they do prevent people from voting.
Middle aged people turn out to vote and they also have jobs. You do not have an excuse for not voting unless you are physically prevented, eg your town placed voting machines on the second floor of a building with no stairs and you are in a wheel chair, or because it is your conscious choice to not support either candidate.
There are absolutely people who are prevented from voting if the location is too far and they don’t have a car. That’s part of the argument that voting locations shouldn’t be at college campuses. Students there are much less likely to have a car and therefore can’t go very far. One politicians argument was literally that the college students would roll out of bed, vote, and go back to sleep.
Closing polling locations and forcing mass amounts of people to use one location is also a valid reason. Not getting time off is a valid reason. A lot of people in the restaurant service industry work double shifts days in a row, especially in management rolls that can easily add up to the entire early voting period. Disallowing bussing from churches does disenfranchis people, primarily POC, which is the point.
There’s a reason Republican politicians enact these things. Because they do prevent people from voting.