Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
Mail-in voting and the Postal Service may be getting most of the media attention, but in many areas, the biggest worry is how to handle in-person voting. According to the New York Times, more than 60 million votes will be cast in person this year – either on Election Day or in early voting.
Handling the crush of people voting in a presidential year is always a concern. But America has never had to handle both a pandemic and big election at the same time:
The stuffy church basements and senior-living centers that were once reliable voting sites are now unusable. The tolerance for long lines has shrunk drastically. Where administrators used to fret about the occasional equipment breakdowns and ballot shortages, they must worry now about backup plans if a coronavirus outbreak shutters a polling site or sidelines the poll workers who have staffed it.
Manning the polls has long been a concern for local election boards. It’s worse this year because of the coronavirus. That’s prompted the private sector to get involved in recruiting workers, and providing safe polling locations:
Businesses are playing an increasing role. The clothing chain Old Navy said this week that it would give a paid day off to any of its 50,000 employees who work at the polls. Hundreds of companies, from The Coca-Cola Company to Mailchimp to Patagonia, have made Election Day a paid holiday or given employees time off to vote or to perform election work, and 23 states require companies to grant time off to vote.
Professional sports teams in Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere have offered up their arenas for voting and other election purposes; their size making for a much safer location amid coronavirus than a middle school basement.
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Yes voting in person can be dune the same way we have been going to the grocery store walmart home depo lowes gas stations who ran out of recite’s and have to go inside to get it, there more other places we go to everyday doing the cdc’s guidings set forth , during this china virus, if people are afraid to, mask,gloves face shields hats even a gown , so where is the fear in doing that, now the eldery depending on their situation can apply for an absentee ballet , or have their nex of kin fill it out for them , or mail in as long as they are verificated . the dems want fraude to get the power through fraught , and they know dame well there will be. look if ya all would research the congress requirements for when the uspc came aboard their required company policy was to take as tax so to speak from every employee to pay into the retirement fund to future employee’s , because in away they _are a government company ,but listed as one. that is the main reason the usps is and has been in the red for decades .that was congress, there is very little the president can do, except maybe have the usps change their name and go private or public. i don’t know how but something can be done. look it up foia freedom of information act.
Exactly!! We may be a little more inconvenienced, but it has NEVER been more important!
Unless you have a good reason you can’t vote in person, voting by mail is handing the elections to the CCP, better known as the Democrats. We all know who the USPS sides with. Got our notice where to vote today, our local firehouse. We, the three of us are voting in person on November 3rd. No mail in voting, no matter what Elduchi(Coumo) says here in N.Y.
Elections have NOT been a Problem for those of us at the polling place…. we simply allow but one person at a Time in…. offer them a safety packet ( mask, disinfectant wipes gloves and disposable stylus ) all Employees are wearing masks due to NOT wanting whatever you have, including flu, chinese-Virus, whatever…. Us OLD FOLKS are a bit Smarter than the average Voting person…. No trouble During the run-offs, there will be NO trouble During the Re-Election !