Voted

[sabotabby]

I have never seen lineups like this. It took an hour (I know that's nothing in the US, but in Canada that's a very long time—you're usually in and out in 5-10 minutes for advance polls). Also it's Easter, and raining. The poll workers were stressed but the mood in the lineup was quite cheerful and chatty.

You do not get a sticker or a lollipop and I think that needs to change.

Comments

[sabotabby]

What if the stickers are the glitter kind?

It's so weird that Trump and Elon can hand out checks for a million dollars but you can't hand out lollipops.

[springheel_jack]

Well, they can't, it's electoral fraud, but there's no law now, which has a number of downsides.

[sabotabby]

Yeah. It's not actually illegal here either. Ford can just hand out cash to people to vote for him.

[redbird]

Eln doesn't care about the law, or thinks the tradeoff is worth it; a Krispy Kreme donut shop or similar gains much less by giving out free donuts or coffee or such.

Those laws are decades-old, and were aimed at things like party bosses (Tammany Hall etc) giving people alcohol in return for votes: one shot of whisky per vote, not a huge check to one person. [I'm doing this from memory, which may be fuzzy on the details.]