Comments on: Culver Comes Lately to Vote-by-Mail http://iowavoters.org/2007/11/08/culver-comes-lately-to-vote-by-mail/ for Open and Transparent Elections Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:37:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: tekel http://iowavoters.org/2007/11/08/culver-comes-lately-to-vote-by-mail/#comment-18113 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:27:26 +0000 http://iowavoters.org/2007/11/08/culver-comes-lately-to-vote-by-mail/#comment-18113 Maybe the motive is that your Governor thinks he needs higher voter turnout to stay in office. Is he a Democrat? Vote-by-mail works great in Oregon. But, iirc, our turnout percentages are only marginally higher than the national average in elections for national office. So unless Iowa has unusually low turnout, vote-by-mail isn't a guaranteed cure. But it's certainly better than voting on a touchscreen. Maybe the motive is that your Governor thinks he needs higher voter turnout to stay in office. Is he a Democrat?

Vote-by-mail works great in Oregon. But, iirc, our turnout percentages are only marginally higher than the national average in elections for national office. So unless Iowa has unusually low turnout, vote-by-mail isn’t a guaranteed cure.

But it’s certainly better than voting on a touchscreen.

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