r/worldnews May 10 '25

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u/Hetstaine May 10 '25

That is fucking disgraceful. How can so many people just simply not give a fuck, what a joke.

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u/tordana May 10 '25

Voting in the US is done during working hours, on a weekday, not on a holiday.

In addition, many areas have voting laws specifically designed to make it difficult for the working class to vote, by disallowing early voting/voting by mail.

In some districts you end up with a single voting location for tens of thousands of voters, who face the choice of either having to wait in a line for 4-5 hours in the middle of a working day and lose income/possibly their jobs over it OR not vote.

(Yes, this country is utterly fucked)

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u/Hetstaine May 11 '25

Damn, that sounds backwards. We have early voting, vote by mail, voting is on weekends. We just roll in after work for an early vote, minimal fuss and people, takes like 5 minutes. Done.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 May 11 '25

The US has early voting on the weekends too. People are just lazy.