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On the topic of enough people to vote, we don't get a day off to vote. It isn't a national holiday. People are already living paycheck to paycheck. We have some people paying for food in installments, for fuck's sake. Assuming people can get to the polls, there are lines that don't seem to end, and a finite time where they're allowed to vote, sometimes not enough for those in line to actually cast a ballot. All this is assuming things are working WELL. There were so many issues with the last election, from bomb threats shutting down polling locations, locations just not getting offered in the first place, intimidating individuals standing nearby, I think I remember hearing at least one location running out of ballots, the list is long. I'm fortunate that my state does mail in voting, and even that is under attack by shortening the time we have to turn in our ballot. I agree, more people need to vote, but we also need to be sure they are actually able to vote. I'm not talking about ineligible individuals trying to cast ballots, but rather people who couldn't or weren't able to because of the bullshit tactics that, for some reason, go largely unpunished.
The voter suppression fight in the US is real and it's getting to be a bigger and bigger problem thanks to the enabling Rs helping their autocrat to destroy democracy slice by slice. That will be a fight as long as the Donvict has any power. Not that I will give up fighting it.