and why doesn’t everybody vote? I don’t understand why it isn’t mandatory i think everyone should have to, men, women, and children. If you can read the ballot, you should be able to vote. I know my nephew wouldn’t have voted for trump and he’s 10!

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      • restrictive voting laws making it impossible (usually targeting minorities. I.e. voter id laws.)
      • lack of time. People work. Roughly 2/3’s can’t get time off, the others are sleeping or are stay at home parents (and kids at a polling place? Nightmare fuel.)
      • lack of available early or mail in voting
      • frequently fucked up poling locations, making it an all-day thing in some places (which works with lack of time,)
      • general voter apathy (“both sides!!!”)
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        Depending on where you are… it can take an entire day in some places.

        Also, for the record we’ve had Nazis showing up armed for a few elections now… and bomb threats were a new novelty.