Comment on Why do people say more people didnt vote for trump than did?

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • restrictive voting laws making it impossible (usually targeting minorities. I.e. voter id laws.)
  • lack of time. People work. Roughly 2/3’s can’t get time off, the others are sleeping or are stay at home parents (and kids at a polling place? Nightmare fuel.)
  • lack of available early or mail in voting
  • frequently fucked up poling locations, making it an all-day thing in some places (which works with lack of time,)
  • general voter apathy (“both sides!!!”)

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• Tm12@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are employers mandated to give a half-day for voting? That’s been the case for me in Canada.

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe you can’t be retaliated against for taking off time to vote but your employer isn’t required to compensate you for time spent voting.

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• fediverse_fremont@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  but jury duty can take weeks, voting only takes an afternoon and you can skip work for it

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depending on where you are… it can take an entire day in some places.

    Also, for the record we’ve had Nazis showing up armed for a few elections now… and bomb threats were a new novelty.

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