Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt said the numbers indicate “historic levels of anger and disgust with our political and economic systems.”
Nearly 6 in 10 voters say the economic and political systems are stacked against people like them, tying a record high over roughly 40 years of national NBC News polling.
According to the latest NBC News survey, 59% of registered voters agreed that those systems are stacked against them, while 38% disagreed with that sentiment and 3% were not sure.
The share who agreed with that notion tied a high point in April 1992, a record set after NBC News began polling this question in 1988.
Thing is, it’s NOT just one day. Most states allow early voting (in person), and many allow mail-in voting. These usually start a month before “voting day”, and have fairly generous terms. Voting day is effectively the final day, with local options set up everywhere for convenience.
Even your examples are fairly easy to overcome, although you have to want to vote bad enough to find solutions. You can vote from a hospital, and your local political parties arrange plenty of free transport to/from polling sites.
Fully agree with your statement on RCV and the rest. Some states have adopted it, but even there it has limits on effectiveness.
Of course, all of this is highly dependent on location. The US doesn’t have a single election, it has 50+ state elections (including DC) that look similar. My experiences and options in Ohio are going to be different, possibly very different, from New York or Montana.