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I am voting against early voter here. i think it's a bad thing for one and unconstitutional for another.

Skip

I agree.  I think early voting should be abolished.

why?

No matter which way people vote, they should be encouraged to do so since that strengthens democracy.

On the UK TV we have seen queues in America where people have been waiting for more than 4 hours to vote. This shows a commitment to the voting democratic process which should be encouraged not discouraged. How many of those would lose their vote if they had to all wait until the last possible day?

The campaign is not over until Election Day, therefore people may not have all of the information they need if they vote early.  It also gives "polsters" the opportunity to potentially skew the results, making what is really an unscientific post-voting poll sound like actual voting statistics.

If I had my way, the results of voting (in the national races) would be prohibited from being released until the last voting place in Hawaii has closed.

Also, there is some question about how this process is currently defined in the law.  Some claim that it is actually contrary to law.  I'll let someone else address that one.

Long lines on election day is an easily solvable problem!

Hear, hear, Hal.

Skip

From over here all I can say is that it is good to see a large turn out - whoever wins, the more voters, the more that the Democratic process has won.

It is interesting that you always vote in November (thanks for that Skip), I never knew why.

I say interesting, because November is when Veteran's Day (AKA Remembrance Day) is. It is important to recall that people have died in all of our pasts to give us the ability to vote - not just in wars, but in political struggles (and I do not mean terrorism here, I mean the "Right" to vote!)

I can only encourage anyone who is of the age to vote..... to GO and VOTE

Right, this Brit (who has nothing to say about either candidate (not counting Nader in this.....) will let you get on with it!

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I am voting against early voter here. i think it's a bad thing for one and unconstitutional for another.

Skip

I agree.  I think early voting should be abolished.

why?

No matter which way people vote, they should be encouraged to do so since that strengthens democracy.

On the UK TV we have seen queues in America where people have been waiting for more than 4 hours to vote. This shows a commitment to the voting democratic process which should be encouraged not discouraged. How many of those would lose their vote if they had to all wait until the last possible day?

Voter registration fraud, and actual vote fraud are the two biggest reasons.  ACORN, a liberal community action outfit is being investigated in 14 states for registration fraud, and god only knows how many people will end up voting illegally due to their activities.  Some experts have said it could go as high as a couple of million nationwide.

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From over here all I can say is that it is good to see a large turn out - whoever wins, the more voters, the more that the Democratic process has won.

It is interesting that you always vote in November (thanks for that Skip), I never knew why.

I say interesting, because November is when Veteran's Day (AKA Remembrance Day) is. It is important to recall that people have died in all of our pasts to give us the ability to vote - not just in wars, but in political struggles (and I do not mean terrorism here, I mean the "Right" to vote!)

I can only encourage anyone who is of the age to vote..... to GO and VOTE

Right, this Brit (who has nothing to say about either candidate (not counting Nader in this.....) will let you get on with it!

Voting in November is due to the fact that in the early days, this was largely an agrarian country.  November was picked because the harvest was over by then, and Tuesday because most people had to travel to get to a polling place.  You didn't travel on Sunday for religious reasons, so that meant Monday was a travel day, vote on Tuesday, travel back on Wednesday, and back to work on Thursday.  Then you waited for a couple of months for all the votes to be tabulated and certified.  That's why there is two and a half months between the election and swearing into office of the winners.

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Most of the places that allowed early voting, also allowed people to register and then vote right away.  There was no time to check their bona fides and make sure they were LEGALLY ELIGIBLE to vote.

OK I understand, it's different here since it's a central office that control the voting list. Usually you get your card 3 weeks before the election and if you are not register you have to deal with the president of election office (or something like that, I'm always register) that will make the research to see if you can or can't legally vote. Another thing our vote by anticipation aren't reveal before the end of the election day and no results are publish untill the last poll close (in our case, no results on tv untill the closing of the British Columbia poll).

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Voting here took me less than two minutes from car door out to car door in. 

Glad to hear they made sure you could spend as much time as possible on the new version    (don't hurt me)

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Then you waited for a couple of months for all the votes to be tabulated and certified.  That's why there is two and a half months between the election and swearing into office of the winners.

And prior to the 1930's the Inauguration was in March (versus January).  Presumably the extra time was needed for travel.

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Voting here took me less than two minutes from car door out to car door in. 

Took me about 10 minutes...but we had quite a few issues to vote on...and I parked about 5 minutes away.