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Strengthening voter enfranchisement is a commendable cause, but moving from accessible to effortless in order to cater to people reasonably able but insufficiently motivated is an awful reason to jeopardize the stakes of not just electronic but outright online voting.


Is it jeopardizing voting process if college students wont have unnecessary obstacles to voting?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/states-make-harder...


If polling stations are not in fact accessible, then the criticism doesn't apply: strengthening voter enfranchisement is commendable.


Define accessible?

If polling stations are closed, strategically, and people cannot afford the time/money to vote, or wait to vote, are they truly accessible?

Mail-in is a different situation, so I am not considering this.

Otherwise, I agree with much of your thought.




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