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What are my general rights on Election Day?

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  • If the polls close while you’re still in line, stay in line – you have the right to vote.
  • If you make a mistake on your ballot, ask for a new one.
  • If the machines are down at your polling place, ask for a paper ballot.
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  • inkrifle@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    You say many states outlaw faithless electors, but a shocking amount, 34 out of 50 states, still count the vote, with only 2 of those 34 actually penalizing it. The rest of the States have proper protections against such a thing from occurring, but faithless electors doing some real damage to an election is still a possibility. Will it happen this time around? Probably not. They’ve never really come close to changing the outcome of an election, but if they worked together, they could!

    It is worth noting that the 2016 election had 10 faithless electors and was the first election in over 100 years in which multiple electors worked to alter the result of the election.

    Sources: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election