(07-14-2021 05:06 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-14-2021 04:53 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-14-2021 04:36 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-14-2021 04:27 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-14-2021 04:20 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Cost/benefit comes to mind.

Your full question should read,

If one county wants to provide a equitable outcome to its voters regardless of cost or efficiency, why should it be excluded from doing so?

So if county A wants to keep its record department open 7/24, you would be in favor of that?

I think the local library should stay open 24 hours. Sure would be more accessible.

Heck yeah - if a county wants to provide more services to its citizens, why should it be stopped????

They can make the cost benefit analysis. Who knows, maybe they passed a sales tax increase to fun a 24/7 records department.

And yeah, if one county wants to blow all its dough leaving voting sites open 24/7, while still being able to fund and maintain their other services, go for it. The voters in said county can have their voices heard next election and hold officials accountable if it is not the will of their people.

Interesting you use the phrases “tax increase” and “blow all its dough”.

Here I thought we choose officials to be responsible stewards of public monies on behalf of all the citizens.

Guess I was wrong. We choose them to run amok. Good plan, Lad.

We elect people based on what they campaign on. If people in Smithville, Arkansas elect officials to increase taxes and blow all their dough, that's their perogative.

I don't really get the point of this back and forth.

I'm advocating that state's allow counties leeway to operate voting sites 24/7 if they want to and to allow them to spend their funds as they generally see fit (so long as they meet a floor).

What's your position? Right now it just seems to be challenge all and twist words past the point of rationality. I mean, look at this last post.

My position is that I think you are grasping at straws to avoid saying that the hoopla about this being a racist measure designed to suppress minority voting is a lie. You keep want to talk about anything else.

You’re trying to manufacture hoopla on this board. At least your first question, which started all this, appeared to be in earnest about my opinion on the proposed changes.