We’ve got a story today about the absentee voters hitting the polls early this year. Likely in nearly every case, these folks were trying to avoid lines on Election Day (which likely turned out shorter in some cases).
Here’s an update: Charleston County’s total absentee voting was about 38,000. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says he’ll introduce a bill requiring early voting. The difference is basically that, with one you have to lie about why you want to vote early and you don’t with the other.
Requiring voting in the middle of the week, Clyburn said, is a relic of an older, agrarian society.
“Why do we have such laborious laws?” Clyburn said, comparing it to a legal poll tax to make voters take time off from work to wait to vote. “Why is it that we make democracy so expensive?
“Why can’t we have our general election on Saturday? Why can’t we have 21 days of voting?”
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