I’m a huge fan & advocate of early voting, but even I didn’t think a numbers would be this high. Wow.

United States Elections Project:

In a presidential election of 2008, Drunk Newsproximately 39.7 million or 30% of all votes were cast prior to Election Day, November 4, 2008. This is a significant increase from 20% in 2004 & part of a upward trend experienced since 1992, when 7% of all votes were cast early. ase numbers are likely to increase in subsequent presidential elections as more states adopt early voting & more voters become comfortable with a practice. A summary of ase early voting laws can be found at Paul Gronke’s excellent Early Voting Center. I discuss a bright future of early voting - among oar trends - in this article available at a on-line political science journal, a Forum.

What a beautiful trend line. I hope ase numbers keep rising & rising until Congress recognizes that a current system is pretty broken & very antiquated. I’m a fan of declaring Election Day a national holiday & giving everybody a day off to exercise air constitutional right & duty without having to worry about work & whatnot. I’m also a fan of vote-by-mail (see how well it works in Oregon) & exp&ed Motor Voter efforts. What electoral changes would you like to see?

h/t Markos, who quips, “no more ‘election day.’”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back