The expansion of mail in voting due to COVID helped people vote who normally didn’t.
1) Depending on where you live, polling stations may be hard to get to or have long waits
2) Voting is on a Tuesday, which is typically a work day for most people. Depending on your schedule, it can be hard to get to the polling stations (point #1 can also limit your windows)
3) Most employers don’t give their employees time off or allowances to go and vote
It’s not some big mystery. Why do more and more people shop online at Christmas instead of going to the mall? Because going to the mall is a pain in the ass.
Both of those states have multiple weeks of early voting. Mail in voting is certainly easier, but none of you other points matter because early voting eliminates them. Mail in voting is the least secure method BY FAR and if you cannot find time in the day for an entire month to vote early (and have a goddamn ID on you) then you shouldn't get to vote. Your mall analogy is great because everyone went to the mall no matter what before the internet just like everyone got off their asses and voted on Tuesday before early voting. A month of early voting is like the internet of voting.
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