I'd be very happy just to see Oklahoma actually wait until the polls close to declare the republican presidential win...

I swear every year, they decide it so early I am convinced the electors don't even care what the vote counts are. There is no fucking way backwards as fuck Oklahoma figured out a way to accurately track and count votes faster than any other state - and voter turnout would need to be so high they know it can't possibly turn around in the last 2 hours of the polls still being open? Yea right.

Wow another Okie!

Crazy storms in the Tulsa area for us btw. And probably why I also see Harris Walz signs. We're about to get a Democrat for a mayor!

This is what happens in some Republican controlled states when they limit the times and places and how people can vote. Trump said a few years ago that if minorities vote, Republicans will never win another election. So Republican controlled states started getting rid of polling stations and changing voting times to standard working hours, etc, knowing that people wouldn't be able to take time off from work to stand in the now longer lines (due to fewer polling stations) or would want to stand in longer lines.

Plus, election day is not a national holiday like it is in most other countries, so people don't get the day off to vote. Though some companies give 3 or 4 hours paid time off strictly for voting.

It is working as designed, since it is meant to discourage people from voting. The less voter participation the better results for Republicans.

I don't know took us almost an hour to vote.

Well you see, the point is to prevent people from voting.

I like what california did last election: everyone got an absentee ballot. That way I could fill it out at home and drop it off at my polling location at my leisure. There was a line, but I got to walk past it.

In the state of Oregon, I just get mailed a ballot and can either mail it back or drop it off...last year, I did a drive-through ballot drop off at the state capital.

This is what voter suppression looks like.

I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.

This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.

Well they better be careful how far they push it, or else the super PAC leaders, the thinktanks, and the 1% are going to start dieing in interesting ways.

If Republicans get their way, voting by anything other than in-person on election day will be banned.

The system works as intended

Same. In my conservative and low income county it took me longer to drive to and from the location than it did to actually vote.

How many machete wielding loons accosted you?

I never had to wait for longer than 5 minutes to vote and I never voted early. Mostly because it takes 10 minutes of my time on voting day, which is always a Sunday.

Polling places can't be further away than 1,5km I believe, so wherever you live, it will be close enough to just walk there.

I have voted in schools, kindergardens, a community center and a church.

People grow tired of fighting with such high stakes so in the long run you just wear them out

This is true.

Sure, if Trump wins things will suck definitely but it’s not the end of the world. Ultimately biggest political parties serve various oligarchs so once Dems are inevitably back some years from now you’ll notice not much is changing for you personally.

This is where I vehemently disagree. Just because you're not going to be one of the first ones they target doesn't mean it's no big deal. They're talking about using our local police to round millions of people up and put them in camps, and you're going to sit there and tell me it's not the end of the world? Get the fuck out of here.

It's okay to be tired. Fight anyway. That is what is required to maintain Democracy. Giving in to authoritarianism because it's easier is a bitch move.

Trump is litterally the one telling people that. "Im going to be dictator for a day". "Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again". "We need to use the miltary to rid of the radicals".

If you're truely polish, you should be well aware of what a man that says these things can do.

It absolutely will be the end of the world for the women who die when an abortion could have saved them, for the immigrants dumped back into their war torn countries, and for the trans people that are forcibly detransitioned who then kill themselves because of the horror.

Spoken like a true cis white male.

Give them a break, it's really erarly.