I am sure many people use (c) as their excuse and you don’t have to prove it. But, the majority of states allow for “no excuses” in person and/or absentee voting. [link]

It would be nice if Michigan joined this movement. Voting with long waits in line is not an attractive/reasonable option for the low pay workers in the service industry who aren’t encouraged to vote with the type of messages I get: “don’t worry about coming in late/leaving work early to vote.”

However, I have now voted absentee for several years. It gives me peace of mind to know that I have taken care of that responsibility and that no mishap will cause me to miss. Also, you can look things up online if you have questions while filling out your ballot.

Re (34) We used to have two precincts voting at Forsythe, 5-10 and 5-11. For some reason these two precincts were combined into a megaprecinct ten years ago. The lines were long for the two precincts and people sometimes got into the wrong line, but it did seem more sensible.

I know that’s cryptic, but without going into details, it was a case in which the friend had legit and authorized ID within the rules, but not what the poll worker expected (despite the sign in front of him/her) and the slinging around of words like “improper” and “illegal” could have scared off a less informed but totally legit voter. Simply minor human brain-glitches at the local level but made it easy to see what malice could do in other places.