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Veilex

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16. If such a voting requirement were passed without any accomidations whatsoever, you'de be right.

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 05:02 PM

Mar 2015

However, considering the available accommodations that currently, I would presume that additional accommodations and protections would be instituted along with such a mandate... IE: businesses could not legally prevent people from voting through scheduling or coercion. Or perhaps that businesses would be required to have "vote days" on the books, similar to "sick days", that people could use to get out of work and go vote. Kind of like a voter's holiday. There are plenty of ways we could get around punitive actions that the wealthy and/or corporations would try to institute... these are just several ideas off the top of my mind.

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What If Everyone In America Had To Vote? [View all] Veilex Mar 2015 OP

Don't forget, you're also requiring anti-Government conservatives to vote as well... brooklynite Mar 2015 #1

True... but then, I don't really have a problem with that. Veilex Mar 2015 #3

Only if there is some way corporate america can make money from it BubbaFett Mar 2015 #2

30% of the people would still vote for idiots. NV Whino Mar 2015 #4

True... but it'd become considerably harder to commit election fraud. Veilex Mar 2015 #6

Just 30%?? HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #10

National holiday, and the two parties have to release their stranglehold on the system dissentient Mar 2015 #5

Fine. Just as long as it has a "None of the above" box and write in line. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2015 #7

I think it would be great Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #8

I'm not sure. Would the WHOLE 1st Amendment go down the shitter ... 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #9

Ask an Australian... LanternWaste Mar 2015 #12

About what? The 1st Amendment that they don't have? 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #13

While they don't have a explicit 1st Amendment, they do have this: Veilex Mar 2015 #15

Apparently Aussies feel that such wording is compatible ... 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #22

I don't think I could...at least, not in the manner you suggest. Veilex Mar 2015 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author stone space Mar 2015 #30

"Falsly shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a euphemism... stone space Mar 2015 #31

Didn't know that. Interesting. Veilex Mar 2015 #32

about the 1st Amendment? Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #33

I did ask an Aussie virtual coworker what he thought of their mandatory voting Skittles Mar 2015 #47

Apparently it's "fuck the 1st Amendment Week" on DU Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #34

Not voting is speech? KamaAina Mar 2015 #39

No, just the opposite. 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #49

Mandatory voting wouldn't awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #41

That means the wealthy would make sure (1) more people were in prison and (2) more people valerief Mar 2015 #11

If such a voting requirement were passed without any accomidations whatsoever, you'de be right. Veilex Mar 2015 #16

"Freedom of speech has no practical value if it does not include the right to remain silent." . . . Journeyman Mar 2015 #14

Easy enough to address. Veilex Mar 2015 #17

Hard to tell the difference between apathy and assertion of right to silence... salin Mar 2015 #18

Apathy is due to disapproval. Why blame the voter for apathy? Mandatory voting does not address the liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 #20

I frequently write in none belcffub Mar 2015 #44

In doing so, you are participating and giving a voice salin Mar 2015 #45

Just because it is different than what you would do does not make it wrong. liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 #46

normally these are local elections belcffub Mar 2015 #50

my guess is the third party KT2000 Mar 2015 #19

Here's what the added population would comprise rock Mar 2015 #21

Interesting read on this subject... bluesbassman Mar 2015 #23

Interesting indeed. Veilex Mar 2015 #26

If we had a more intelligent cwydro Mar 2015 #25

OTOH, if many people don't vote, democracy does not function... LeftishBrit Mar 2015 #27

More voters voting does not necessarily equate to more liberals in office. That is for sure. liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 #28

Why doesn't it? Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2015 #38

Republicans will never allow it Mosby Mar 2015 #29

It assumes that one supports the system. DeSwiss Mar 2015 #35

Well said! I'm with you. liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 #48

Voting holiday will be one of those holidays Politicalboi Mar 2015 #36

Will it help the Prison Industrial Complex? Trillo Mar 2015 #37

One sure fire way to get more people to vote voluntarily Vic Prell Mar 2015 #40

Republicans would stay home because Obama thought of it. B Calm Mar 2015 #42

President Kardashian Throd Mar 2015 #43