Our democracy is broken and House Democrats just passed a bold proposal to fix it

[WiseManOnceSaid]

Originally Posted by sickofnyc

No one can argue that getting the money and corruption out of the system is anything but beneficial. The evil turtle man denounced this for reasons that we do not have to wonder about.

It was killed for the expanded voting rights.

Some of this has some merit and if they could agree somewhere in the middle, such as with gerrymandering, this could actually get passed. But polar opposites will never meet in the middle.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Aussiehoff

It's a massive bill which I of course haven't read all of. I'm just going through the early sections and have a couple of questions. Do you agree with them that it is the governments responsibility to ensure everyone is registered to vote? Voting isn't mandatory, why should registration be mandatory? And if registration is govt responsibility - registration is mandatory.

Do you agree that 16 years olds should be registered to vote? 2 years ahead of when they can vote?

The goals of this bill are very transparent.

I think that all people should be allowed to vote, with some qualification. I think we need fairly administered literacy and civics tests. People should only vote if they understand what they are being asked to vote on.