Do you think that creating a mandatory holiday for elections would increase voter turnout?
What makes you think more voters are better?
If anything, we should make it harder to vote. Only those who who have taken the time to research the positions of candidates and proposals would make the effort to get through the obstacles to vote ensuring that we can weed out bad, ignorant voters from intelligent educated ones.
Ridiculous idea. Polls are open until at least 7 pm in most states. All an election day holiday would do would be to give those that don't even care enough to vote yet another paid day off. People that want to vote, will.
In this country ignorant people or those who haven't done research still have the Constitutional right to their vote. It would be totalitarian to deem only certain educated and well researched people the right to vote
What makes you think more voters are better?
If anything, we should make it harder to vote. Only those who who have taken the time to research the positions of candidates and proposals would make the effort to get through the obstacles to vote ensuring that we can weed out bad, ignorant voters from intelligent educated ones.
Ridiculous idea. Polls are open until at least 7 pm in most states. All an election day holiday would do would be to give those that don't even care enough to vote yet another paid day off. People that want to vote, will.
Educated voting is mutually exclusive from a holiday on election days.
ridiculous idea. Polls are open until at least 7 pm in most states. All an election day holiday would do would be to give those that don't even care enough to vote yet another paid day off. People that want to vote, will.
You suppose low voter turnout is seated in political apathy?
I never said to deny people the right to vote. Merely make it more difficult to actually vote. If you actually gave a **** you'd overcome the problems and vote. In a way that's why I like mail in. You clearly care enough to register for absentee. And you clearly care enough to mail it in on time. IMO, going to all absentee would help in increasing the votes of people who are themselves more motivated to vote. Perhaps I'm reading too much Heinlein recently?
I never said to deny people the right to vote. Merely make it more difficult to actually vote. If you actually gave a **** you'd overcome the problems and vote. In a way that's why I like mail in. You clearly care enough to register for absentee. And you clearly care enough to mail it in on time. IMO, going to all absentee would help in increasing the votes of people who are themselves more motivated to vote. Perhaps I'm reading too much Heinlein recently?
You suppose low voter turnout is seated in political apathy?
But for a lot of people, that only leaves about 2 hours for voting - 5pm-7pm. As 5pm is when a lot of people get off work. Having a holiday means that since people won't be at work they have ample opportunity to exercise their right to vote on those days.
I think we should make it more secure to vote to prevent voter fraud
but I still think the ill informed have the right to vote.
Most polling stations usually have some kind of display table set up for each candidate somewhere.
I think because voting is a Constitutional right, we should make it more convenient to exercise that right.
Not necessarily. While Moon does have a good point that those who wouldn't vote anyways are going to just take the day off anyways, I don't see why we should make it easier for those who may vote because they have the day off but aren't educated or informed to make good decisions.
More votes are not necessarily better. If 80% elect an idiot, does that make that person a good choice?
I would be against mail-in voting, or at least making it mandatory, as there's too much possibility for voter fraud and people should have the right to change their mind who they vote for up until they cast their ballot.
But why should people who do educate themselves on the issues but have a strict schedule for their job be limited to only a few hours to have the opportunity to vote?
Not everything in life has to be handed to you on a silver platter or hassle free.
"Only"? Polling places are in the neighborhoods, or close by. Even if they have to wait in line for a bit, it's not like elections happened every week. If it's important to do, then make the wee bit of sacrifice it takes to vote. Not everything in life has to be handed to you on a silver platter or hassle free.
I wouldn't find a bunch of old volunteers counting pieces of paper to be entertaining for TV purposes. And thus this is why such doesn't happen, its boring, its not money making, and nobody is going to carry such a thing on their broadcast lineup.Well that goes without saying. And why we should get rid of electronic voting machines. Go entirely back to paper and count them on live tv.
I think you misread my post. What I meant was that it leaves only 2 hours for most of the voters in that district to cast their vote. In those 2 hours, between 5 and 7, is when the majority of voters in a district will cast their vote. That can lead to a horrible backlog in voting. A day off can alleviate that backlog.
I wouldn't find a bunch of old volunteers counting pieces of paper to be entertaining for TV purposes. And thus this is why such doesn't happen, its boring, its not money making, and nobody is going to carry such a thing on their broadcast lineup.
Can you imagine, hours of... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... (hours later) 89,993, 89,994... (more hours later) 254,322 , 254,323...
Yeah, who the **** wants to watch that ****.