“The real issue, IMO, is how to devise a system which would work in today’s electronic world and honestly reflect the wishes of the voters. We also need to have an educational system beginning in kindergarten that teaches American history honestly and stresses the importance of voting. Everyone has to feel like their vote means something.”
All very fine, but it will take YEARS. Get started, good ideas.
The national voting day can happen fairly quickly.
Perhaps you missed the part about it being a teachable moment for families to go vote together, as a family. An opportunity (day off) to discuss voting, candidates, political parties, etc. It could be a far better education day than if they had gone to school.
Did not miss the part of your recommendation that voting be a teachable moment for families and strongly agree with you. However, IMO, even if we had a national voting day and it was a paid holiday not that many more people would vote and few people would take their children with them that don’t already do so.
It has taken us YEARS to get where we are. It won’t be undone overnight. I rather liken it to church attendance where the father gathers the mother and their kiddos and takes them to Sunday School and church every week, reads the Bible and prays every evening when they all sit down for family dinner. It’s a matter of choice, priorities, lifestyle and accepting that it is one’s responsibility to do so.