Posted on 02/20/2020 6:18:13 AM PST by artichokegrower
Voting in the United States has long been considered both a right and a responsibility. But one California lawmaker hopes to make casting a ballot a legal obligation. Assemblyman Marc Levine introduced a bill last week that would essentially require every registered voter to cast a ballot — even if it’s an empty one.
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Too much freedom going on out there.
Australia has has compulsory voting for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/world/australia/compulsory-voting.html
“Australians are induced to vote with both sticks and carrots. Shirkers can be fined up to nearly 80 Australian dollars if they fail to show at the polls. But voting, which always takes place on a Saturday, is also made easy and efficient, and is often accompanied by a community barbecue that includes eating what locals affectionately call “democracy sausages.” “
Why not?
They’re not far from punishing folks who vote Republican (both of them).
I hope to live long enough to watch Venezu-afornia collapse and view the libs trying to breach the wall we built to keep their infection from spreading.
Too expensive to provide enough fake ballots.
Next they ought to target those dead voters and fine the hell out of them.
“What the he’ll is this, Russia?” - Larry The Cable Guy
That sounds like a great idea. Punish those who don’t vote and reward those who vote early and often.
I saw that in the konstitusion somewhere, the right to be made to vote.
“...and is often accompanied by a community barbecue that includes eating what locals affectionately call “democracy sausages.”
The Navy (and other sea services) would call the representation of these “democracy sausages” the “fid.” As in “criky, we sure got the fid last election” in American parlance the term buggered would be unnecessary as “getting the fid” explains the allusion more than adequately.
How about punishing registered voters who won’t serve when called on jury duty because they aren’t citizens? I understand California has thousands of them.
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
First came one-party elections (voters in recent gubernatorial and US Senate elections had to choose between two Democrats with no option for write-in votes). Now comes compulsory voting. This is Soviet Union stuff.
As I recall, that was a standard tactic in COMMUNIST countries.
I heard an Obama speech once (I was in a bank lobby and couldn't escape it) where he said, and I quote...
> "It should be illegal to NOT vote..."
Just before that he stated that anyone should be able to "walk into this country and vote."
The foundations for all of this have been building for many years.
1st it’s you did not vote...... then it’s you did not vote for the ‘right’ candidate!
Australia is apples and oranges.
They have a tiny population compared to ours, and when that law was written it was much, much smaller. There was legitimate concern about small, organized bands of Nazis, Communists and other whackos winning power in low-turnout elections.
This thing is just a way to guarantee that Democrats never lose one again.
More likely they’ll start making it a requirement that you show proof of voting in order to get welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, student aid, or any other sort of gubbermint handout.
ESPECIALLY empty ones, as you said - "ballot harvesting on steroids"...
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