From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I'd love to see a 24 hour voting period, that started at the same ACTUAL
time in each area.  6AM east coast, 5AM CST, 4AM MST, 3AM Pacific, etc.
That way, with a 24 hour period, no matter when you work, you'd have access
to vote, AND there would be NO polling places closing earlier than any
others, so no "early voting results" possible to influence those
in later time zones.  Can't count the votes until the polls close, and
since they all close at the same time, no chance to influence.

--
Glenn M.


"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> That is a good idea. I would prefer a longer voting period. It might make
it
> a bit more difficult ( or at least expensive for the newspeople) to do
their
> exit polls.
>
> Bob Lewis
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> > I think re-opening the polls on the immediately following Saturday while
> > people are off work or holding them open all the way from Tuesday
through
> > Saturday would be interesting ideas.  If voting started on Tuesday and
> just
> > didn't end until Saturday evening, it might pass constitutional problems
> > because it started on the first Tuesday or November.  Also, having
several
> > days to vote would allow greater participation and make it harder for
> > terrorists to target the election since it was so much more spread out.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Mark"  wrote in message
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> > >
> > > "Robert Comer" 
wrote: I think it should be
> > > *required* that it's held within a week or two,
> > > > otherwise like you said, things could get ugly. (for everyone)
> > >
> > > Yes, when I said a "plan" I meant that same would
have to have an
> > *absolute*
> > > firm date, I picked the following Tuesday only because that would
allow
> > > enough time to arrange the alternate polling places for any that were
> > > rendered totally unusable.
> > >
> > > Now that I've said that, I wonder if setting up a back-up polling
place
> in
> > > an undisclosed  location might not be a good up front plan. e.g. a
town
> > has
> > > 5 polling places and some or all are attacked, the immediate
alternative
> > > plan would send voters to the now public location and extend voting
> hours
> > > through the night to accomodate the longer lines. Of course there's no
> > > guarantee that new place wouldn't be attacked, but odds would be
against
> > it.
> > > There's no time at this late hour to get new equipment for that many
new
> > > emergency locations, but there is time to reduce the
"5" polling
places
> to
> > > "4" and set up the "5th's" machines in
that location.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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