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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only eight states have automatic mail-in voting: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington state, plus Washington DC.

Some states have No Excuse Required mail-in options, while others have Excuse Required mail-in options. I’ve lived in all three types of states. The automatic (blue) state was best, and No Excuse (purple) state made the mail-in request easy, but I had to jump through hoops and lie my ass off to mail my ballot in the Excuse Required (red) state.

Every state should have automatic or No Excuse mail-in ballots.

https://ballotpedia.org/All-mail_voting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They absolutely should all be automatic.

We should also, IMO, have it as a holiday. As well as early voting options everywhere. Really everything to encourage participation.

Unfortunately not the case today...