Probably better than the DART coverage in rural areas...
Early Voting Observations--Johnson County, Iowa
- Thread starter GOHOX69
- Start date
There it is. The “I had to walk both ways uphill in 10ft of snow” and “you don’t know how good you whippersnappers have it” comment.
I'm glad to want to help other people. That's very noble. Why do you think it's OK to make that decision for other people?
If partnering with various non-profit organizations to provide free transportation to polling sites doesn’t constitute public transportation then I guess I don’t know what public transportation is.
Listen shitheads, Voting is a right. However it is done. F you to anyone that disclaims mail in or early voting.
How the hell do you think our servicemen vote?
How the hell do you think our servicemen vote?
In some instances. It was in your original post about Uber and Lyft. You are just arguing to argue on this one. Edit: Does the government own any entity involved in the free transportation on Election Day?
Why does it have to be owned by the government in order to be considered public transportation?
One day out of the year, two for-profit companies partner with various non-profit organizations in order to provide free transportation to polling places for people who need it most.
It kind of seems like you’re the one arguing just to argue here.
The fact s the Legislature changed the voting rules because they could, as opposed to because there was a need to…..The RECORD IOwa vote in 2020 featured record absentee and early voting and really there we’re no illegal/fraudulent votes cast…….But “small town” small thinking Iowans in the Legislature didn’t like the trend so they wrenched down the rules and shortened the voting windows to cure a problem they saw….but no one else saw. If I lived in Buttphuque, Iowa I might too fear folks in big cities voting in record numbers…especially if these folks had funny last mes or were of a different skin pigmentation than I…..but to absolutely invent a reason to restrict someone else’s Constitutional right because on one’s own ignorance is ludicrous.
Public transport doesnt run in rural settings either...(although I have called an uber at a very rural place before).
What does that have to do with Uber and Lyft being a public transport?
Service area? Sure
But now check on how reliable that service is (my folks live in a rural Iowa community; they cannot get access to either when no one is in the area who wants to drive there)
Christ told others to act that way. I'm sure religion is only a crutch when it's convenient. 😉
That's pretty much the definition of "public transportation"
And, certain public access transport, which DOES operate in rural areas, CANNOT handle everyone trying to get to polls that same day.
They CAN provide access over a period of weeks prior to any election that early voting is allowed.
You're not a 13 year old girl (I assume). Speak like an adult. What are you trying to say?
This is what happens when you interject yourself into a conversation you're not a part of nor cared enough to read in entirety.
It's all there, go read it (or dont, I couldn't care less either way)
No more assuming than the Republicans in the Legislature engaged in… other than “they could” there is no real reason for restricting voting rules like they did… and no reason to make judicial appts. More partisan
Then you should be emabrassed by your question. It takes a 3rd grade level of reading comprehension to grasp that conversation.
I don't. I think government and people use our try to use their best decision making skills. It's far from a perfect science.
He was incorrectly insinuating that the limited public bus service used for the elderly and disabled, could be used to take people to the polls.
That's the likely majority of people who NEED help getting to the polls
And when there is NOT an adequate early voting window, those systems are NOT capable of providing it all on a voting single day.
