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Yeah, that's how it works.

 

Bill Mitchell has had 100 dumber tweets this week alone.

If you read his feed as satire, it's quite amusing. When you realize it's not satire, it's kind of sad.

 

This is my take:

Let's suppose a state fixed some window for early voting. Let's say the window that was settled on was 28 days. It is a certainty that our state's political class settled on that window for political reasons. That's what the political class does.

Now let's say that our state, having undergone a churn in the political class, shortens its early voting window to 27 days (choose whatever non-zero number you want). As before, it is a certainty that this shortening was for political reasons.

There can be no principled objection to this. Because no matter how accommodating a state was to begin with, it could have been more accommodating.

Thus, if you accept the argument that to narrow the window is to disenfranchise certain voters, then by choosing to limit the window in any way, shape or form the state disenfranchised certain voters!

Finally, and frankly more to the heart of the issue: I think it is disgustingly disrespectful to those who in years past risked life and limb to vote to categorize as "disenfranchisement" or "voter-suppression" the narrowing of early-voting windows or reduction of early-voting locations.

 

Hell, let's just start voting for 2020 and 2024 now. Give people plenty of time to get it done.

 

Translation: You are truly desperate to defend a disgusting position that you are once again venturing into tony and YF territory.

A move was made to keep people from voting, and it was done due to racism or for political gain, possibly both. And you are defending it.

 

I would.

 

Everything is politics and politics is everything. Too bad we can't be as unbiased and intelligent as you.

 

Run along, OOP. There are things being talked about here -- ideas, principles, theories -- that you're just not equipped to handle.

 

No argument there.

 

Not a holiday in Canada but your boss is required to allow you 4 hours for voting (eg. if the polls close at 8PM your boss must let you leave by 4PM).

 

I remember as a college sophomore, having changed majors into the liberal arts, taking a generic course of two Western Civ classes. One of my professors went off on this cool tangent about civic religion in Rome (back in the day) and how (or if) there is a modern version the the U.S. His purported Big Four, as I recall, were Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Definitely an interesting take.

 

Not in that ballpark.