yeah, play the game but try to change the rules. That being said, I doubt I'll ever do the early voting thing, what if the candidate drops out/dies/goes insane in the month or two before the election? In a primary, you could have voted for anybody but Trump to no avail.
There should be just an Election Day, with limited absentee voting. Americans have no need to be so lazy they need weeks to do one simple thing.
Yes, most of us might play their game (again), but beat them at it - by winning and then changing those rules back to non-Banana-Republic.
If anything has made the “dead people voting” conspiracy theory come true, it is “early voting”, no matter what format that takes.
It’s not just about the candidate dying (Paul Wellstone, anyone? Likely Biden?), it’s about the VOTER dying. Why does a person who’s dead by Nov 5 (whatever) count for votes? Why is it ok if they are alive in Sept, but in Nov they’re dead? Why can they still vote for the current cycle?
As to the lazy, indeed. If people could walk miles and miles on dirt roads and over pasture to get to vote on 1 day 2 centuries ago, I think your high-tech world can manage to get your actual butt to the polls on a certain single day YOU KNEW ABOUT A WHOLE YEAR AHEAD!