I Voted

...though I knew it was futile. Sure enough, the state went to Biden.

Don't get me wrong -- I'll support Biden if he wins. Not that it will matter, since on election day this state is going for Trump. Far-Right Extremists outnumber everyone else here by like 5-4, and I don't think Biden is going to convince any of those extremists to vote against Trump.

Meanwhile, in Texas as in other states wait times at the polls stretched into hours in areas with a high minority population.

That's not accidental.

(Here in Arkansas, where I voted at the local park, it took me five minutes to vote. And everyone around me was middle-aged, middle-class, and white.)

Election days should be national holidays. Lots of working class people don't vote because they can't get time off work.

Also, we should be able to vote from any location -- here in Fort Smith, that's how it's handled. We don't have to go to "our" polling place. We can vote from any polling place in the city. But it should be wider -- we should be able to vote from any polling place in the state. (All of the records are online now, so why not?) Students especially are kept from voting by this problem -- that they have to go home to vote. It's midterms! Most of them don't have time to drive hours to vote.

Also, early voting should be the law everywhere. Again, this will make it easier for students and the working class to vote. (It is the law in many states, but not everywhere.)

But all of that would require a ruling class that wants all citizens to vote, rather than (in fact) wanting to suppress the franchise for "certain" people.