You can only vote in your polling place. (Unless you get an absentee ballot or live somewhere that everybody votes by mail.) Wherever your precinct votes, precincts being determined by address; the first vote I ever cast was in the dugout of the baseball field attached to a city park or community center or some such thing, one bus stop before the one I usually got off at on the way home.
One method of doing election fraud legally is, have fewer polling places per capita in areas whose demographics tend to vote Democratic: nobody likes waiting in line, and the longer the lines get, the more likely it gets that someone has obligations that need them to ditch the line. Public schools are almost always polling places, so the kids get the day off because voting on Tuesday instead of Sunday is a religious obligation apparently, so lots more people than usual need childcare that day. Employers are required to provide time off work for employees to go vote, but only like two hours per employee. Anyone in line when the polls officially close still gets to vote, but given how often my white ass has been in and out of the polling place in under twenty minutes and how often a polling place that officially closes at 9p has people still waiting after 10…
One method of doing voter fraud, and please observe that of these two methods this is the one that gets talked about a lot, is by going to a polling place that isn't yours and, when the election worker fails to find your name on the list of registered voters in that precinct, ask for a provisional ballot, and then hope nobody notices the duplication.
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Date: 2024-08-27 08:27 pm (UTC)One method of doing election fraud legally is, have fewer polling places per capita in areas whose demographics tend to vote Democratic: nobody likes waiting in line, and the longer the lines get, the more likely it gets that someone has obligations that need them to ditch the line. Public schools are almost always polling places, so the kids get the day off because voting on Tuesday instead of Sunday is a religious obligation apparently, so lots more people than usual need childcare that day. Employers are required to provide time off work for employees to go vote, but only like two hours per employee. Anyone in line when the polls officially close still gets to vote, but given how often my white ass has been in and out of the polling place in under twenty minutes and how often a polling place that officially closes at 9p has people still waiting after 10…
One method of doing voter fraud, and please observe that of these two methods this is the one that gets talked about a lot, is by going to a polling place that isn't yours and, when the election worker fails to find your name on the list of registered voters in that precinct, ask for a provisional ballot, and then hope nobody notices the duplication.