re: Alito: 'Election Day, like Labor Day or Independence Day, means one specific day'

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So will early voting be banned?

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Banned? No, but there should be very limited criteria for absentee ballots/early voting - such as military service, working abroad, physical inability to get to a polling place, etc.

Also, every vote should be verified by ID and signature match to ensure that ONLY eligible voters vote.

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In order for me to explain, you must first explain how this actually makes it harder to vote.

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you don’t think forcing every single person to vote on one single day in person would make voting harder?

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you don’t think forcing every single person to vote on one single day in person would make voting harder?

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I am sorry for the hardships you have personally encountered while trying to vote on election day.

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What about stuff like offshore workers or the many other jobs where people are gone regularly. Not everyone can drop everything to show up for one single day I don't see the issue with limited (not talking about months on end) in person early voting

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Those people still have mail in ballots. So long as the ballot is received and counted on or before election day.

If you have never seen a mail in ballot it has two parts. One is an envelope with your name and voter information on it. The second part is a ballot that you fill out with your choices. The filled in ballot is placed in the envelope with your voter information on it. The ballot is generic and has no identification about who the voter is or where that vote came from. If the ballot comes in that envelope the county knows it is a valid vote.

During recounts it has come out the election authority did not save the envelope with the voter information on it. They say they don't have facilities to store all those envelopes. There should be one mail in ballot for each envelope but with the envelops gone there is no way of knowing if there are fake manufactured ballots. All that is stored is the vote ballot. Anyone can fill out a hundred ballots and put them in a drop box.

So when a candidate is winning on election day but slowly starts to lose as mail in ballots are counted a week or two after election day it makes you wonder if someone is is making as many fake ballots as they need to win.

You mean taking the time to count all lawfully submitted ballots?

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So will early voting be banned?

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Let's hope not. Since I was a kid (I am pretty up there in years now, we are talking a long time) you could go to the local fire house and vote for a week before the election. Saved an incredible amount of time.

I'm an ex-precinct judge in Denton County. Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about and your suggestion would, in fact, be considered 'voter suppression' by the courts.

In Texas, it is very secure. People in nursing homes and care centers who ordinarily can't leave get absentee ballots if they can't easily get out to vote. Disable persons who can't stand in line should be able to vote absentee. A person that travels as part of their job and who will likely be out of town on election day should be able to early vote or vote absentee. The county also has special voting systems for people who cannot use their arms, who are blind, or can allow a close relative or caregiver to go into the voting booth to assist in filling out a ballot. The problem isn't the legitimate use of these tools to help people vote. The problem is sending out wholesale absentee ballots to everyone and expecting legitimacy in the results. Your solution is draconian in effect, and their (Dems) solution is wholesale voting where they can round up ballots and cast them as much as needed to win. That needs to be stopped.

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So will early voting be banned?

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I take it to mean simply that votes will be counted on Election Day, and not after that.

Which of course is incredibly easy to do. Just set an earlier deadline for mail-in ballots. If you care enough to vote by mail, you care enough to get it in on time.

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You mean taking the time to count all lawfully submitted ballots

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Without the security measures taken by all other developed nations, as well as many nations not quite as developed, how exactly do you know ballots were lawfully submitted?

People have been sold the idea that voting is supposed to be convenient.

It is a civic responsibility to vote and security should be paramount over convenience.

While we still need to have absentee ballots for certain people, everyone else should vote on Election Day. In Louisiana, if you are disabled, you can move to the front of the line. We have small precincts so there are usually only lines for Federal Elections.

However, how we vote doesn't matter if we continue voting on electronic voting systems that can be manipulated or hacked.