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I think it should be mandatory. A large tax for not voting to cover costs of voting. Pay for new equipment and the pay of the people running the polls.
Would be a lot better then the GOP claiming a mandate, with only 30% of the eligible voters.
It might not be so bad if and it's a big IF people actually voted by policies and not freebies. If it's mandatory for every welfare person to vote......where will their votes be policies or freebies??
I have to say, it does seem Democrats are the ones who force policies upon people. Healthcare for one....... with no plan, except to give people very high deductibles and less care for their high premium.
what Oregon has just done, which registers you to vote when you get a driver's or non driver's license in the state. Also, in Oregon, it is a mail in ballot state, so every registered voter will get a mail in ballot each election making it much easier for people to participate.
And what prevents a person from cruising down the block the day the ballots arrive via mail, collecting them, filling them out and dropping them in a mailbox somewhere?
I think you need to reread the post......it's not what was said!
Yep, the first part says you do, but it is the rest of your post that doesn't match. If you prove you are a citizen when you register, then why prove every time after?
Yep, the first part says you do, but it is the rest of your post that doesn't match. If you prove you are a citizen when you register, then why prove every time after?
And that would work if that were true but it's not.
You can register online by checking a box.
You can register by filling out that postcard and checking a box.
And what prevents a person from cruising down the block the day the ballots arrive via mail, collecting them, filling them out and dropping them in a mailbox somewhere?
The felony charges that would come from doing that. I will let you know when that actually happens.
The question is, why do other countries have mandatory voting?
At least two dozen countries have some form of compulsory voting, including Belgium, Brazil and Argentina. In many systems, absconders must provide a valid excuse or face a fine, although a few countries have laws on the books that allow for potential imprisonment. Mandatory voting? Obama says it would be 'transformative' | CNS News
That sounds like one of the stupidest ideas on the planet. Why would any nation, anywhere, make voting mandatory? Not allowing women to drive makes more sense to me than that. Someone could at least make the argument that women are more likely to get into car accidents than men. There's no possible way to justify mandatory voting I can think of.
Yay! 100% of our population is voting (and 60% of them voted for whoever was tallest, or who had the best haircut).
I can't believe Obama's stupid enough to literally want mandatory voting to actually happen though. That's like Darwin Awards winner stupid. He's probably just talking before having any idea what he's actually saying.
And hence..Voter ID laws which mandate you show proof of who you are when you arrive to vote.
How did you register to vote ?
I remember filling out that postcard in the PO and mailing it off.
I've never been asked about citizenship all the years I've voted.
Not until last year did I have to show proof.
So illegal voters are allowed to register to vote, just not vote unless they have a valid ID, which in most cases a fake ID will do just fine. See the problem?
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