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=Mailed Ballots= (Alaya) In America There aren’t enough people voting in order for it to be a “fair” decision. These people who have not been voting can make a huge impact on what people run our country. We understand that these citizens have their reasons. Reasons being working late so they don’t have time, school so they don’t have time, disabilities so they can’t get out and vote, children don’t have school so their parents have to stay home and watch them, and things of that nature. Imagine if every vote was cast by mail in a very secure envelope. In this instance Americans could vote in the comfort of their own home. People are more likely to vote when it is “less work” for them to do so. We could treat the mail in ballots just like the Census; every time there it is election season, a form inside of a security sealed envelope and it is mailed to the citizens of the United States and it should be shipped to their house with a week to sent it back before the actual final due date. Each person is given sufficient response time instead of everyone having to go out to a specific polling place. Sometimes leaving your house becomes deterrence and that it the reason why some people don’t vote. With mail is ballots, casting your vote is as easy as a walk to your mailbox. There would also be no more long lines to wait in just to cast a vote at the Polling Place.

=**Rebuttal**= (Douglas)  Election day is an important day for Americans all over the nation. It is the day in which important decisions of the community are decided. It is the day when new governors are elected and in essence a new voice is formed for the people. Although, there have been critics who believed that it is essential to vote and we as a nation should do anything in our power to get people to vote including mail in balloting, but I believe that this would be the worst idea possible. Why should we as a nation put forth effort to make people vote, who aren’t interested in voting? Governors shouldn’t be making those uncaring enough to go forth and participate in politics to have their voice heard. If they were to do this, then the voice heard could be a voice of ignorance. Most people who don’t vote probably don’t follow politics in the first place. So proceeding to bring mail-in balloting to Pennsylvania will just give those who don’t vote the ability to check any name and submit it. Even still that theory is only supported if it is true that Pennsylvanians’ would even vote in the first place. Save a tree, it is idiotic to waste paper for people to “vote”, when they may not even vote in the first place. Neighborhood schools are closed down, which means you probably don’t have to travel very far to go vote. A mailbox may be about the same distance away. If people won’t travel to a school to vote, why would they travel to a mailbox? Mail isn’t the safest form of voting either. Mail could be lost, and even stolen. Mail systems could be backed up and that in turn could slow down the election results. Mail in ballots being sent out in time may also be very difficult in itself. There are too many risks that are associated with postal voting. Instead of killing trees and implementing these new ideas that have major fails, stick with the original plan. If people really wanted to go and vote, people would vote. Postal voting has been proven to fail in certain ways anyway. Postal voting ultimately creates more work for people to do.

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