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[nebris]

"I think we should go in the opposite direction; make Voting a Privilege to be earned, not a Right granted by mere birth.

Base it upon Knowledge, a more rigorous version of the present US Citizenship Test, which I suspect at this point most native born Americans could not pass in a pinch. Include History, Civics, Economics and Science at a High School Senior/Collage Junior level. And make it like driver license, renewable every ten years or so.

Certainty the overall numbers of voters would plummet, but their quality would soar. They'd be the type of voters that none of these lying expletives could fool with the BS they presently spin...and that includes *both* parties, who lie and lie and lie to their respective bases and then go do what their pay masters want, not what The Republic needs." comment on Mandatory voting? Obama says it would be 'transformative'

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[moropus]

As interesting as that is, I'd like to see mandatory voting. When I lived in the UK, as soon as I had signed on for electric and phone, I got a mandatory voter registration form in the mail and had to prove I was not eligible to vote, which was fairly easy.

Around election time, I would get flyers given to every address that were vaguely threatening in a cheerful sort of way to tell me to get my fat ass off the couch and vote.

As far as multiple voting, we invented the perfect system and gave it away. Ink that won't wash off should be applied to the hand of every voter leaving the station.

I am mystified as to why this never comes up here. If people are willing to get a stamp on their hand to enter a bar and drink, I'm sure they would put up with it to vote.

[moropus]

And no we don't have a democracy anymore. When the government can be bought and sold, its not a democracy.

[nebris]

^this