Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt said the numbers indicate “historic levels of anger and disgust with our political and economic systems.”
Nearly 6 in 10 voters say the economic and political systems are stacked against people like them, tying a record high over roughly 40 years of national NBC News polling.
According to the latest NBC News survey, 59% of registered voters agreed that those systems are stacked against them, while 38% disagreed with that sentiment and 3% were not sure.
The share who agreed with that notion tied a high point in April 1992, a record set after NBC News began polling this question in 1988.
By having voting day be just one fucking day is already a clear sign the system is stacked against them. Like, what if someone is sick that day and cannot physically get to a polling station? Car broken down? Experiencing the literal birth day of a child. Why not have it be voting week? Voting month? Some kind of available time period that’s more than a single fucking day’s worth of daylight.
Also, the fact that so many jurisdictions have zero interest in alternative, scientifically-proven more democratic, voting methods, like ranked choice or ranked preference or whatever it’s called, and stubbornly stick with the easily-manupulated first past the post method is incredibly telling how rigged against the people the US “democracy” (or republic or whatever symanticism people there prefer) is.
Keep the polls open until 2/3 if registered voters vote.
They’d have buses shuttling in OAPs until the minimum was met then shut it down.
As opposed to now where they shuttle in OAPs and then the polls close with less than half of people voting.
Neither.