Murdock is right, you know.
...Federal Election Day is "the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year." This is not a passage from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack nor a line that Mark Twain wrote for Ulysses S. Grant. It's the law.
Specifically, 2 U.S. Code § 7 governs congressional elections, and 3 U.S. Code § 1 covers presidential ballots. These statutes invoke November — not October or September.
Also, voting anywhere other than in person, behind a curtain, destroys something sacred: the secret ballot. Voting at home, by mail, or through ballot traffickers demolishes voters' confidence that they, and only they, know how they voted. Absentee ballots potentially allow spouses, relatives, bosses, and even door-to-door political activists to pressure voters into casting their ballots one way or another....
All the happy-talk from Belling and McKenna about 'early voting' and 'mail-in voting' is just that: happy-talk which does not speak well of their street-smarts. Neither of them has matters so pressing that they cannot possibly get to the election booth on election day.
Nor are the burdens so horrible for the Republicans who passed these stupid laws in the first place, ROBIN!
Cut off the latest attack by the (D) snake-lawyer Elias.
Go back to the system that worked.
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