I guess the old methods aren't working anymore...
Posted on 11/07/2014 9:59:56 AM PST by C19fan
When the 113th Congress returns next week for its lame-duck session, a senator with a very secure seat — and presidential aspirations — will be filing a bill to make Election Day a national holiday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a reason for the legislation, the “Democracy Day Act of 2014,” is low voter turnout on Tuesday.
Sanders said his home state, which had a gubernatorial race, only had 43.7 percent voter turnout, the lowest on record. The United States Elections Project at the University of Florida estimated nationwide turnout at 36.6 percent, the senator noted, with the biggest drop-off among minorities and young people.
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Increase efforts towards a two-week period of early voting is a better idea. That is how we have voted for years.
You can absentee vote, early vote weeks before the election, and vote on election day.
How about a bill moving Election Day to April 15th?
Alright, outlaw early voting
If it were up to me I would have a two week window where voting would open unannounced for two hours only.
LOL that way you know that the people who vote really wanted to vote.
Either way ... work is not the reason people don't vote
apathy / ignorance is the problem
Weekend at Bernie’s? Who’s supplying the refreshments?
One can’t have their cake and eat it too. The people that don’t have jobs and are not paying the majority of taxes are already able to have the free time to vote. Its the hard working people that make time in their busy schedules to make sure they vote. Sanders must not be looking very hard at which his constituency is primarily made.
So Obama’s Silent Majority can get Holiday pay for sitting out the election.
I guess the old methods aren't working anymore...
Voting day as a holiday is probably about the best idea I’ve seen in a while if it was on a Tuesday or better yet a Wednesday. If you don’t vote, employers should dock a day of vacation.
I think you are right!
Outlaw early voting AND keep election day a non-holiday AND repeal “motor-voter” AND require positive, verified, photographic identification to vote AND purge the voter rolls of illicit registrations.
I OPPOSE efforts to expand the number of people voting. Voting should require a bit of effort.
Thugs want to force citizens to vote.
Mini-thugs want to apply pressure to make citizens vote.
These narcissists need to check their egos. It’s a free country - people don’t have to vote if they don’t want to...
Might get more working people to the polls. Bad demographic for the D’s.
Yet another”Federal Worker’s PayDay”??They combinrd Washington/Lincoln to accomodate MLK.Why don’t we just do away with”President’s Day”and call it”Free-Loaders Day”????
OK, let’s go one further and give out free unlimited crack, malt-liquor, etc. starting the Monday night before the election and running through midnight of election day. Because hey, I don’t want people not voting due to DTs.
Welcome to Amerika. The latest banana republic. Next we will vote by color then dip our fingers in purple ink.
Exactly! Less people will show up.
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