para bellum
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Meh. My state closed all the polling places in 2011. If you want to vote in person you have to go the the county clerk's office.
There are 22 drop-off locations that cover the ~400 voting precincts in my county. So there's 400 polling places in my county that were closed in 2011...
Before that, you had to vote in the precinct you were registered in. I wasn't allowed to vote in 2004 because I was in the wrong precinct. I cast a provisional, and received a letter a few weeks after the election that said my vote was not counted.
1688 locations closed since 2012...They don't say how many were added... Most of those States that closed polling places added new polling centers and made it so you could drop off a ballot in any one of them- you didn't need to be in your precinct. Most of them also went heavily to mail-in, and added drop boxes.
Phony metric. It ignores everything else, so they can screech "voter suppression!"
Show me one State that lost voters from these changes, or saw a decline in turnout. It didn't happen in Washington...
There are 22 drop-off locations that cover the ~400 voting precincts in my county. So there's 400 polling places in my county that were closed in 2011...
Before that, you had to vote in the precinct you were registered in. I wasn't allowed to vote in 2004 because I was in the wrong precinct. I cast a provisional, and received a letter a few weeks after the election that said my vote was not counted.
1688 locations closed since 2012...They don't say how many were added... Most of those States that closed polling places added new polling centers and made it so you could drop off a ballot in any one of them- you didn't need to be in your precinct. Most of them also went heavily to mail-in, and added drop boxes.
Phony metric. It ignores everything else, so they can screech "voter suppression!"
Show me one State that lost voters from these changes, or saw a decline in turnout. It didn't happen in Washington...