Posted on 08/12/2008 1:30:12 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A casual encounter sparked a controversy over the methods of the Democratic National Committee. Several women say they saw volunteers offering to pay people to register to vote.
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The Dems have been doing this in the cities for decades. They pick up “street voters” in vans to “just drive them to he polls” ya know. That they may hand out cigarettes or coffee or bus and subway tokens is incidental and really doesn;t mean anything....... sarc/
I see. A punative fine is morally equivalent to paying people to vote some of the time. < /s >
Oh! And Borat Obammy offerin’ everybody $500 from the oil companies isn’t payin’ people to vote?
You are absolutely right. In some places in the rural south, you exit the polling place, and walk right into the trailer where you pick up your bottle of booze if you vote Democrat. A number of years back, NBC News even did a story on this, with video of the people walking away drinking out of their bottles.
I like Australia’s method better. You don’t vote, you get fined.
Like this is anything new!!!!
Actually, I'd prefer that people have to pass a basic civics test before they can vote. Nothing to fancy or difficult. But they should at least know the name of the current President and Vice President and be able to answer some basic questions about the positions of the current candidates.
Actually, I’m leaning more towards a system like in the movie Starship Troopers where there are two classes of people. Civilians and Citizens. If you serve in the armed forces you become a citizen and get to vote. Otherwise your just a civilian and have no say at the polls. I would include services like the police and border patrol as qualifying you for citizenship. I think that one of our main problems is that we have become a society where everyone has rights but few understand or are willing to take on the responsibilities that go along with those rights.
That system gave the vote to anyone in public service, which included anyone working for the government. And you only got the vote after you were no longer employed in such service.
I see no problem with this.
Register, take the money, and when it’s time to vote, vote Republican.
The old “walking around money” routine!
The Camden-Philly Bop!
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