First election I’ve participated in since moving! Voting in NC was easier than voting in MA for two reasons:
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No complexity to the voting system and no hard choices. I voted solid Dem, of course
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the better reason: you can register and vote the same day! As long as you early vote.
In MA you have to register way earlier, and any understandable registration process requires a poll tax — sorry, an “official change of address” that costs a definitely constitutional hundred bucks. And they make you vote provisionally if you don’t do the town census every year.
MA had better politics on the whole, but they also sure have an obscene focus on making sure students, renters, and poor people can’t vote.
