"Off the Record"? - GOP Chairman Ohio

[Bird222]

There's a simple solution to this:

1) Mandated voting for every citizen over the age of 18, or pay a fine, lose your driver's license, whatever. Something that's too painful to avoid voting.

2) Create a national voter's "holiday" that must be respected by ALL business, or they pay a fine large enough to discourage playing loose on the rules.

Too bad that will never, ever happen.

It'd be nice for everyone to vote, but this is America and people should have the right not to vote if they don't want to. I remember hear about some country that everyone had to vote (Serbia maybe).

 

[jackstar7]

It'd be nice for everyone to vote, but this is America and people should have the right not to vote if they don't want to. I remember hear about some country that everyone had to vote (Serbia maybe).

Australia has madatory voting.

 

[a777pilot]

Australia has madatory voting.

Yes, but they have fewer people than just California. That's 22 million vs 37 million. Just won't work here.

 

[jackstar7]

Yes, but they have fewer people than just California. That's 22 million vs 37 million. Just won't work here.

Just pointing to a modern and first-world country that does it.

 

[Jhhnn]

Yes, but they have fewer people than just California. That's 22 million vs 37 million. Just won't work here.

If everybody were forced to vote, I suspect Repubs would be crushed. That's why they're trying to restrict the electorate, discourage all but their own zealots from voting.

It's not impossible, just highly undesirable from a right wing perspective.

 

[feralkid]

Yes, but they have fewer people than just California. That's 22 million vs 37 million. Just won't work here.

So, no reason to even try.

Commie!

 

[a777pilot]

So, no reason to even try.

Commie!

That's right. No reason to even try. It's called freedom.