the thing about voting

is there an easier way to organize voters than by designating polling places? also maybe if the locations were shifted to shopping centers and malls where people actually want to go and go anyway, would people vote more? too bad we can’t vote online. at least there’s mail in voting.. but shouldn’t voting be de-facto by mail? and would those who don’t mail it in be more likely to vote if they could vote where they shop? maybe there’d be like election day sales to encourage people to shop and vote, people love that shit. I feel like we should be proactive in making it as easy as possible for people to vote. I’m sure there’s a lot of logistics issues of having so many people in one place… but it could be worth a shot. Tuesday isn’t a major shopping day for the most part. I mean people shouldn’t need to be spoon fed voting options.. but it’s better to be realistically optimistic than ideally optimistic. no matter what year, which candidate, or which issue people aren’t wildly compelled to go out of their way when election day actually hits. but I think designated polling places is outdated at best and it’s time to consider adapting to the people, instead of the people adapting to the process. because we care, but a lot of us don’t have that fire that characterized the 60s, suffrage, civil rights, etc. it’s just a harsh reality, just like the harsh reality is that a lot of the candidates fucking suck anyways and legislative gridlock is killing our country. the election was a reaction to obama because the congress changed the conversation from being about what they should do to what he should do and has done. congresspeople don’t act because actually taking a position might make people angry, but what I never get is why people aren’t angry that nobody ever takes a real position anymore. most of their work is politicking instead of legislating, and working to assure reelection, to say nothing of their lobby interests. so if were going to have to vote for shitty candidates, at least give businesses a high five and let them sell us shit after we vote. I’m sure this idea has come up before, I wonder why it never happened. security concerns? traffic? maybe the numbers would still be low anyway and it doesn’t really matter. also it’s not like i did any research on this topic, I’m just saying. but still.