For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

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      I mean yes, but the real disenfranchisement comes from making sure the lines are hours long for the only polling station in your county (while every suburban school is a polling station in rich neighborhoods).

      We had laws against that (not that they were followed), but the Supreme Court struck them down because “they weren’t needed anymore”.

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      5 hours ago

      Isn’t that quite normal even in other countries? I believe we do it quite commonly in Denmark.

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        Yes. In the UK, our elections are always on Thursdays. No one has ever complained about it because it’s literally not an issue.

        The idea that it’s an attempt at disenfranchising people because you have to vote either before or after work is laughable.

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          The difference I suspect is in the ease of which we have access to local polling stations within walking distance of our homes, and how short the queues are, if there are queues at all.

          In the US these problems can be magnified, especially if everybody is trying to pile in to the stations (or just reach them) within the one hour they have before their 12 hour shift, etc.