Mail in Votes
posted in Politics |Years ago I registered to vote by absentee ballot all the time. Its much easier to get the ballet in the mail, have a chance to study the candidates and issues with a computer nearby and make my decisions.
Today is a primary election in King County and the mail-in ballot at a reminder to remove the stub (tiny extra piece of paper) from your ballot or else it might push your postage over $.41 (a normal stamp). Which brings up a better question- why do you have to pay postage to vote anyway? Voting is our most basic government function and as mail-in voting becomes more commonplace, doesn’t the postage become a form of (very small) poll tax?
So let’s get our elections commissions to solve this problem- either via pre-paid postage envelopes or better yet a national postal service rule that ballots don’t require postage (much like congress gets to send free mail).