Posted on 03/18/2017 7:24:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A state lawmaker from Manhattan wants to make it costly for New Yorkers not to vote.
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Democrat, introduced legislation this week that would establish compulsory voting in the state and punish those who dont vote with a $10 fine.
Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation and transform the political arena by making politicians more reflective of the constituents that elected them, Glick wrote in a memo submitted with the bill.
Under Glicks bill, any eligible voter who fails to vote would be hit with the $10 fine unless they have a valid excuse why they couldnt do so. The legislation does not specify what constitutes a valid excuse.
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It’s a tax!
If a poll tax is illegal, a poll fine should be, too.
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.
I think they are going to run head on into the Constitution.
This sounds like voter id and we sure can’t have that...
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!
The Dems excite their voters so much that they have to threaten and punish them to get them to go to the polls.
It is a poll tax, with the zero datum moved.
Probably illegal...because it means they are giving everyone that votes $10.
OMG, “she” looks like a guy!
More liberal behavioral control in their administrative state.
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.
Corruptissima re publica plurimæ leges. (A state with many laws is most corrupt.)That, of course, is what is with Democrats and their Republican counterparts who behave the same.
Tacitus, Book III
Just a ‘get out the vote’ for Dems.
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.
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.
Will illegal aliens be exempt under this bill since you can’t force non-citizens to vote ?
Yes siree! Funny how often that's true of liberal politicians of the purported female persuasion.
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