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Can someone explain to me why it is so important that more people vote?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:34 pm
I am having an ongoing debate with someone who believes that our goal should be that 100% of eligible voters be registered and that they vote. This means that every 18 year old should automatically be registered and that we should change voting laws (expand time frames, vote online, bus people to the polling places, etc) to get more people to vote.
My position is that if someone doesn't take the time to register to vote, it must not be that important to them, and I don't want people who don't really give a damn, or who are low information voters to cast votes that could decide the direction of the country.
On a side note, I believe low information voters are also more easily persuaded by liberal positions which tend to be more emotion based and include more freebies.
Why is it important to improve voter turnout?
My position is that if someone doesn't take the time to register to vote, it must not be that important to them, and I don't want people who don't really give a damn, or who are low information voters to cast votes that could decide the direction of the country.
On a side note, I believe low information voters are also more easily persuaded by liberal positions which tend to be more emotion based and include more freebies.
Why is it important to improve voter turnout?
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 12:36 pm
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Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:35 pm to Jax-Tiger
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My position is that if someone doesn't take the time to register to vote, it must not be that important to them, and I don't want people who don't really give a damn, or who are low information voters to cast votes that could decide the direction of the country.
Same here.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:36 pm to Jax-Tiger
You make great points.
You should have to take a civics and current events exam to be able to vote.
Low information voters that vote on emotion are the biggest threat to our Republic.
You should have to take a civics and current events exam to be able to vote.
Low information voters that vote on emotion are the biggest threat to our Republic.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:37 pm to Jax-Tiger
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Can someone explain to me why it is so important that more people vote? by Jax-Tiger
To give them a false sense of power and ownership as a functioning part of society because we all know that the elections are rigged by the Russians.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:38 pm to bamarep
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You should have to take a civics and current events exam to be able to vote.
Why? If you must pay taxes, you should be able to vote.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:38 pm to Jax-Tiger
tapping into the emotional, low information voting populace is how the last few Presidents have won
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:38 pm to Jax-Tiger
I think voting is very important. It gives you an opportunity to voice your opinion. And I agree that it should be more convenient for registered voters to vote. But if an individual doesn’t want to, that’s his/her right.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:39 pm to Jax-Tiger
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Why is it important to improve voter turnout?
The dumber the electorate, the better chance for mind controlled fringe winning. Both sides.
There should be a quantifiable threshold met to vote, not a physical trait (age, sex, race). People should need to meet some life goal, that is only achievable by work/acts of service.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:40 pm to Jax-Tiger
It’s not important to get more people to vote.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:40 pm to Jax-Tiger
Bigger registration roles create more opportunities for fraud.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:41 pm to 4cubbies
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Why? If you must pay taxes, you should be able to vote.
Because we have a party in this country that is openly against this country and the founding principles and the way this country is supposed to run.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:46 pm to Jax-Tiger
Only people who own property and/or pays federal income tax should be able to vote in national elections. For state and local elections they can set whatever parameters they want.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:46 pm to Jax-Tiger
I enjoy that you pseudo-patriotic, alt-right, beta shitheads are abandoning the pretense that you are at all interested in the vision of the founders as it is memorialized in the Constitution (except for 2A, of course).
If there is one major positive takeaway, it is that we don't have to guess who would have been cool with some of the more extreme ideas coming out of Europe circa 1930.
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:48 pm to Jax-Tiger
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On a side note, I believe low information voters are also more easily persuaded by
The person with the loudest voice. That easily goes for both sides.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:51 pm to Jax-Tiger
I guess it would mean a greater reflection of what the population wants although many just use that because there are so many voters who will vote just because of the party or whoever will pander to them
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:51 pm to 4cubbies
Ex cons and illegals also pay taxes.
Should they get to vote too?
Should they get to vote too?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:51 pm to DeafJam73
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I agree that it should be more convenient for registered voters to vote.
I never said this. I think that at a minimum, you should have to carry your butt over to the registration office. If you aren't willing to do that, why should you vote?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:58 pm to bamarep
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Ex cons and illegals also pay taxes.
Income tax was specified. Illegals don't pay income taxes. They would be caught.
Ex cons either don't work or work at jobs paying in the EITC range. So, they don't pay income taxes either. Even if an ex con found a good job and paid income tax he should not vote. It's part of the penalty for breaking the law. I understand that leftists don't have a problem with criminal behavior. But normal people do.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:59 pm to Jax-Tiger
I think everyone should vote but they would need to vote on policies and not names . If everyone had to take a policy test then Republicans would destroy democrats in the polls .
Posted on 4/2/18 at 12:59 pm to DarthRebel
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The dumber the electorate, the better chance for mind controlled fringe winning. Both sides.
I disagree. The less informed voter is more easily persuaded to vote for "fairness", or "free stuff". It is easier to find these voters. Go to the prisons, the ghettos, or the homeless shelters, and you will find groups of people who will vote for Democrats.
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