Hmmm..those would be awfully small elections.
“If voting is so important, you need to make that extra effort to do it,” said Luechtefeld, who voted last year against the early-voting measure. “It isn’t just the idea of getting more people out to the polls – it’s getting informed people out to the polls.”
What is weird about opposition to early voting is that it would cut down on fraud–if there is one serious problem with the system as it stands now, it is that the polling place judges are seldom capable of identifying qualified versus unqualified voters. They are simply the bodies the election authorities can come up with–when you vote at a central location, the competence and qualifications are higher and should provide better security.
I think that Oregon has gone to all absentee balloting, which cuts down on the potential for fraud even more..