Posted on 11/07/2014 9:59:56 AM PST by C19fan
When the 113th Congress returns next week for its lame-duck session, a senator with a very secure seat — and presidential aspirations — will be filing a bill to make Election Day a national holiday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a reason for the legislation, the “Democracy Day Act of 2014,” is low voter turnout on Tuesday.
Sanders said his home state, which had a gubernatorial race, only had 43.7 percent voter turnout, the lowest on record. The United States Elections Project at the University of Florida estimated nationwide turnout at 36.6 percent, the senator noted, with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.
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Absolutely. God Bless.
You're going in the wrong direction.
You should be taking a page from Isaac Asimov's short story Franchise.
It's the story of a government supercomputer named Multivac that uses a statistical demographic model to select the one statistically representative person to be the "Voter of the Year." That one person gets to choose who will be elected.
Instead of worrying about how to get EVERYONE to the polls, why not just select ONE person instead?
-PJ
I like weasels. They take on things three times their size (and win) and hate cowards.
You’re at the bottom of a hole.
Stop digging.
End of discussion.
Goodbye.
This idea of yours sounds the best to me. Also,I would have all states doing their primaries at the same time. That would put more/better choices on the ballot in the general election
He’s so smart. That will benefit the working class — those that pay the taxes.
Because there is supposed to be an election day. The Constitution even says so.
But, more to the point, it is for voter suppression, basically. I don’t want people who can’t be bothered to vote on one day to be nagged and cajoled into eventually getting to the polls. It should be about people who want to vote going to vote.
Not about organizations having a fortnight to round people up to vote.
The unions and other organizations can do enough harm in one day rounding up the intransigent. Why give them more time?
So you want no early voting AND no absentee ballots? And for those of us whose work causes conflict?
It should be about people who want to vote going to vote.
And those suggestion will prevent some of those that don't have a simple job.
Why give them more time?
Because working for a living in a time consuming job shouldn't give up the right to vote.
Please recognize, I do understand where you are coming from, I just don't agree with it.
Mostly, because it would be my vote suppressed some years. And many other hard-working people.
Because elections don’t already cost enough. Let’s get employers to subsidize it against their own interests. Good idea!
No, I already said absentee ballots, for those with good reason are reasonable.
Why give them more time?
Because working for a living in a time consuming job shouldn't give up the right to vote.
I think you misunderstood my "them." "They" are the unions and other paid party hacks who go around with vans getting people to vote. Why give them two weeks to round up the ignorant and apathetic?
Being in Texas maybe you are not aware of what happens in the Rust Belt with these types of things.
Nonsense. You and other hard-working people can apply for an absentee ballot. I am not opposed to even having longer hours on the one day (it's 13 hours as it is here). But not a week or more of voting.
No same day registration either. You and other responsible, hard-working people can figure out that an election is coming up and register a month in advance.
That is considered "voter suppression" nowadays, too.
How does that not violate the Constitution any differently than the early voting?
I think you misunderstood my "them."
I think you misunderstand who the "them" will actually be. I would be one of them some years.
Why give them two weeks to round up the ignorant and apathetic?
I see more opportunity for fraud with a mail in ballot than a early ballot set up the same way as election day and and a required voter ID.
Being in Texas maybe you are not aware of what happens in the Rust Belt with these types of things.
I grew up about an hour from Youngstown, Cleveland and Pittsburg. Other peoples cheating should not take away working American's opportunity to vote.
No I cannot. Texas law does not allow an absentee ballot for those that expect to be in their home town on election day, unless over 65.
No same day registration either.
Absolutely agree.
I’m fine with this if we also eliminate early voting and voting by mail.
Not everyone that works is home on voting day.
True, but early voting needs to be the exception, not the rule. Otherwise it's an engraved invitation for vote fraud.
And who gets to decide the exception? I have been kept from voting due to last minute job demands. I don't take that chance any more. I vote early because it is important I vote.
Otherwise it's an engraved invitation for vote fraud.
We have the same Photo ID requirements and observers as on voting day. I do agree the ballots by mail have more fraud opportunity, but I still support those as defined by our currently assessing need.
Try it for 1 year. Why not? Then we will find out if more people will vote, or if the same people don’t give a crap, and use it as another weekend day to party.
Really, what would it hurt to try it 1 time?
These people do not understand the real world do they?
The people that DID vote work. I work midnites 12 hour shifts, my wife works retail hours. We both voted. I worked the 4th of July this year and will be working on Thanksgiving. People that want to vote do so. Period/ What would be next when this doesn’t work? A tax credit? A cash incentive?
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