If I’m not mistaken, I’ve heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can’t imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

I’ve used carrier video calling before, the option appears when I call my wife. We both have Verizon, though, and I’ve never checked if I can do that with other people

Truly, a time to be alive.

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

They’re mostly in rural parts of the states where private (read: investor owned) utilities determined the region wouldn’t turn a large enough profit to expand there and the state’s public utility commission didn’t mandate their expansion