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human
CMV: Access to early voting should be mandated across all 50 states

It is without a doubt in my mind that early voting makes the voting process more convenient for citizens and creates a stronger democracy. It also diversifies the electorate, as has been seen nationwide where a large number of Latino and black voters have decided to partake in early voting. Early voting is now an essential part of the democratic process of the USA.

On the other hand, forcing citizens to spend significant time in line, sometimes up to several hours, on a single day of the year (a Tuesday of all fucking days) is irresponsible of the state, and borderline criminal. There are plenty of people who simply cannot make the time to go to the polls. Citizens in the following seven states are only given a 12 hour window to cast a vote for the president of their country. 

Alabama

Connecticut

Delaware

Michigan

New Hampshire

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

We are no longer in the days of the 1700s, our laws and policies need you adopt to current and future needs.

Please change my view.

Edit: to be clear I am referring to in-person early voting. These are polling stations that are open 7 days a week and are usually held in the 2 to 4 weeks before election day. This past weekend I went to my early voting station and though there were dozens of people there, my total time in and out was about 7 minutes.
gpt
Is mandating early voting the only possible solution, or even the best solution? Voting by mail introduces several points of failure between voter receiving the proper ballot and that ballot making it to the ballot-counters in their state, most notably that there are chances for mail to be intercepted or simply lost. There are some measures against this, but generally speaking your one vote is safer if you're physically going to vote.

Would it be a better solution to change the voting day to a Saturday, or to expand the hours you can go to the polling place, or maybe expand the timeframe that polls are open (ie: a voting week or voting weekend) than it would be to allow more people to vote by mail?