Where does that expression come from? In any case a recent post of mine praised California’s early voting and extensive preparation for Super Tuesday. I wrote too soon. Evidently hundreds of thousands of people requested early ballots, but then decided to wait. When they showed up at the polls the polling officials had to check the records to make sure they had not already voted, and amazingly long lines resulted.
Not only that, but the conservatives columnist Jonah Goldberg made a good point that all of those people who voted early for Buttigieg or Klobuchar or Steyer wasted their votes. Had they waited, they likely would have switched to Biden, as many voters did in Texas, where Biden won big.
I’m still impressed with the efforts made by California to make voting easy and convenient, but the state may want to think the long early voting period.
Incidentally, the long lines in Texas were for a different reason. Texas cut down the number of polling locations in places with large concentrations of minority voters or on college campuses. That’s called voter suppression.
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