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New Yorkers who don’t vote would pay $10 fine under assemblywoman's bill
New York Daily News ^ | Friday, March 17, 2017, 6:11 PM | Glenn Blain

Posted on 03/18/2017 7:24:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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On the face of it, it looks a lot like Australia’s compulsory voting law. But we are not Australia, and that law is still controversial over there, although apparently not enough people are inconvenienced by it to demand a repeal.
1 posted on 03/18/2017 7:24:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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It’s a tax!


2 posted on 03/18/2017 7:26:49 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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If a poll tax is illegal, a poll fine should be, too.


3 posted on 03/18/2017 7:27:15 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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I think if Democrats push this, then a whole BUNCH of people will vote Republican, and the GOP will repeal it.

But it will be declared unconstitutional before then.

What is it with democrats. Always more laws.


4 posted on 03/18/2017 7:29:05 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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I think they are going to run head on into the Constitution.


5 posted on 03/18/2017 7:29:11 PM PDT by snowtigger (Deplorable, and proud of it!!)
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This sounds like voter id and we sure can’t have that...


6 posted on 03/18/2017 7:29:22 PM PDT by crusher2013
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Wait a minute. People can’t afford to get an identification form, like a license, to prove they are eligible to vote, how the hell can they afford a fine. She hates the poor!


7 posted on 03/18/2017 7:31:22 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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The Dems excite their voters so much that they have to threaten and punish them to get them to go to the polls.


8 posted on 03/18/2017 7:31:48 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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It is a poll tax, with the zero datum moved.


9 posted on 03/18/2017 7:31:51 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Probably illegal...because it means they are giving everyone that votes $10.


10 posted on 03/18/2017 7:32:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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OMG, “she” looks like a guy!


11 posted on 03/18/2017 7:32:38 PM PDT by vette6387
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More liberal behavioral control in their administrative state.


12 posted on 03/18/2017 7:33:19 PM PDT by inchworm
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Liberal politicians are people who have so much time on their hands that they constantly come up with idiotic ideas to inflict upon the people they are supposed to represent.

And when not doing this, they are thinking up ways to further enrich themselves and gain more power and control over others.

That’s what they do for work. What they do for pleasure is far worse.


13 posted on 03/18/2017 7:35:09 PM PDT by unlearner (So much winning !!! It's Trumptastic!)
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Corruptissima re publica plurimæ leges. (“A state with many laws is most corrupt.”)

— Tacitus, Book III
That, of course, is what is with Democrats and their Republican counterparts who behave the same.
14 posted on 03/18/2017 7:35:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Just a ‘get out the vote’ for Dems.


15 posted on 03/18/2017 7:35:28 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Why would you have to do this? Isn’t voting a PRIVILEGE? I think the dumbocraps just want to ensure that their minions faithfully vote more garbage like DumblASSio, Cuomo, Schumer, and Kill-a-Brant in. The number of NYC pols being indicted for corruption (and many convicted) just blows the mind.


16 posted on 03/18/2017 7:35:41 PM PDT by EinNYC
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anyone who doesn’t care enough to vote on there own initiative I don’t want voting. I actually think low voter turn out is good in that those that don’t care to educate themselves on the issues are not voting.


17 posted on 03/18/2017 7:35:55 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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That would last about 5 minutes in the Federal courts.
18 posted on 03/18/2017 7:36:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Will illegal aliens be exempt under this bill since you can’t force non-citizens to vote ?


19 posted on 03/18/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Yes siree! Funny how often that's true of liberal politicians of the purported female persuasion.

20 posted on 03/18/2017 7:37:28 PM PDT by JayGalt
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