Subj : Re: Voting
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sat Nov 12 2022 10:35:25

On 12 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > Harris County has a population of 4.728 million as of 2021. If less than
 MP> > quarter of those people -- 1,000,000 people -- each took one second to d
 MP> > their ballot in the box, people would be dropping off ballots 7 days a w
 MP> > 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, 60 seconds a minute for over eleven 
 MP> > half days.
 MP> All you have to do is drop the ballot in.

Well, if you're in line, you have to advance forward when the person in front
of you moves forward, and then drop the ballot in. A single second seems
generous. But at a single second per drop nonstop, 1 million people would
take 11.5 days to put their ballots in the box.

 MP> >  MP> > They would not face near the congestion at that drop box that urb
 MP> >  MP> > vot
 MP> >  MP> > would. In rural Texas counties, the county seat is much more impo
 MP> >  MP> > in urban Texas counties. One-stoplight towns don't tend to have t
 MP> >  MP> > o
 MP> >  MP> > offices, courthouse, etc., but rely on the county seat to fulfill
 MP> >  MP> > The towns that are the county seats often are not that big themse
 MP> >  MP> > a
 MP> >  MP> > only have one tax office, one courthouse, etc. This seems to work
 MP> >  MP> > them.
 MP> >  MP> I am certain that drop box is also not their only polling place.
 MP> > No, it's not, but it's supposed to be convenient. What's the harm in hav
 MP> > more than one drop box per county? Is it that too many people might vote
 MP> > easily?
 MP> If it was their only means of voting, you might have a point.  As it is,
 MP> I am guessing it is one of at least three.

Nevertheless, there's absolutely no legitimate reason to only have one per
county irrespective of the counties' population differences.

There's also no legitimate reason to move the opening time for Sunday early
voting from 11am to 1pm, when it's well known that many Black churches have
"Souls to the Polls" events at which they all go directly from church to vote.

Jeff.

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