• WHARRGARBL
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    32 days ago

    Only eight states have automatic mail-in voting: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington state, plus Washington DC.

    Some states have No Excuse Required mail-in options, while others have Excuse Required mail-in options. I’ve lived in all three types of states. The automatic (blue) state was best, and No Excuse (purple) state made the mail-in request easy, but I had to jump through hoops and lie my ass off to mail my ballot in the Excuse Required (red) state.

    Every state should have automatic or No Excuse mail-in ballots.

    https://ballotpedia.org/All-mail_voting

    • @[email protected]
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      31 day ago

      They absolutely should all be automatic.

      We should also, IMO, have it as a holiday. As well as early voting options everywhere. Really everything to encourage participation.

      Unfortunately not the case today…