Subj : Civic duty
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Apr 22 2019 06:50:20

  Daryl wrote --

> JM>   There is a WV law that says employers have to give employees time
off for both jury duty and voting.  (I think something else as well).
> JM>   The employer has to give a solid, valid reason otherwise.
> JM>   The only exceptions are natural disasters or some some sort of
other emergency where the employee is physically unable to be on the
jury, vote, etc.
> 
>   I wonder how many states have a similar law??

   Voting is so easy in this state I don't accept any excuses for someone
not voting (unless an accident, death or something before the polls close).
   WV has absentee voting for those out of their precinct on election day
(travel, military, etc).  There is early voting at the court house weeks
before.  The polls are open from like 0630-1900.  There are provisional
ballots for voters that are in question (moved and not updated their
address, etc).
  In WV a valid ID is also required, which could be ones voter card,
drivers license, etc.  And I will have my card and license ready when my
status is checked with those large books the people have.  The few times
those are never asked is when someone who knows me by name is working the
table and even then its sometimes just a formality.
   I have missed one election since 1972.  That was in the late '70s for
a special school board of education* election a couple of days after I
moved back here.
   (* I recall seeing a yard sign in front of a frat house that read:
John Smith, Bored of education).  LOL  
   Joe
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