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Originally Posted by genius
1) that was to be anticipated, still 60% is not that much.
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Agreed. But, compare that with the 40-50% we've been experiencing. And who's to say that this will occur again next year. We may make this investment and then not have anyone show up.
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2) if you do it the way i described there is little cost: paper ballots, pens and cardboard boxes. also you can hold it in places, where you pay no rent as they are owned by the public like police stations or public schools and use volunteers. if 100million people stand in line for an hour, that is one hour they cannot work, so it might cost the country less to pay for a few more polling stations than to have all these people not working for an hour :-)
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Good point on the no work for an hour. However, if we have paper ballots, pens, and cardboard boxes we'll be accused of being a third-world nation. LOL And we have this solution already - absentee ballots.
If this gets to be a problem, and Americans start realizing how important their votes are, then we may have to invest in some more polling places. But now, I just don't think it's justified. IMHO