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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
Granted we have an hour for lunch, but is it really feasible to get to a polling place (say 10 minutes away), stand in line, vote and be back to work in an hour?
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The other consideration is if the place where you are required to vote is even close enough to work to do on your lunch hour.
I honestly have no idea about other parts of the country, but the two states that I have most recently lived in have a required voting location that is in the part of town where you live. You can't just go anywhere to vote. Since most people that I know have at least a 20 minute commute to work, voting on lunch hour is not feasible at all.
With early voting, you can vote at any of the early voting locations. There are three in my county, and I think this also plays into why early voting turnout has been so high. All the people who work downtown can easily jaunt over and early vote at the downtown location during a lunch hour, and not have to worry about extremely long lines before or after work on election day.