In addition, automatic voter registration and easily accessible mail in ballots are needed as well.
Voting over multiple days doesn't mean that partial results are available. (Given that, even in places that don't have all-mail elections, mail/absentee ballots are a significant fraction of ballots, we have voting over multiple days now -- even in the places that don't have "early voting" at actual polling locations. We don't have results before voting closes, though, and this prevents partial results from having an impact [outside of Presidential primaries, which are series of separate-but-related elections, where we have a very big effect of results early in the process].)
We should require an oral civics exam before anyone is allowed to vote. If you don't understand basic government functions, you sure shouldn't be allowed to vote on those functions.
That's like asking the marketing department to debug C. Why should the ignorant be allowed to make decisions that affect everyone's lives unless they care enough to actually understand what they're voting for?
Voting is certainly a right, but that doesn't preclude the responsibility.
Who decides what's going to be on the civics test? Half the population or more couldn't pass it now if it were only as rigorous as to require knowledge of the three branches of government and separation of powers.
OTOH, if it had been required in the past, we'd probably have better government officials than we have now...
Most poor people, even those with a single job must work _at least_ 8 hours a day, 7 days a week to come close, but nowhere near enough, to supporting themselves—let along improving their station in life. And this is simply their job. Add onto this time that must be spent taking care of children and parents.
This class of individual is not going to be able to find time, even on a weekend, to vote because our society is explicitly engineered to put them at a disadvantage in time, capital, and thus political influence.
Your suggestion that most poor people work at least 56 hours a week isn't consistent with what I've read. For example, from The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis, "Who are the working poor?", first paragraph:
> In 2013, 45.3 million people were poor. The majority of the people who live below the poverty level do not work. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 10.5 million or 23 percent of the poor were “working poor.” [1]
Note that I'm not arguing that there is not problem with voting and the poor.