Obama Calls For Mandatory Voting In U.S.

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[KingOrfeo]

Obama always thinking like a totalitarian dictator, adopts the Soviet idea of mandatory voting. Will be have to show an ink stained finger to the police? This man has no concept whatsoever of the prerogatives of a free society:

Australia is a free society, and Australians can be fined for not voting.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

"One man, one vote" scares the hell out of the fringe right.

 

[phrodeau]

Australia is a free society, and Australians can be fined for not voting.

Not exactly. Australians can be fined for not getting checked off at the polls. The ballots are secret, and blanks are legal.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

In America money talks and bullshit walks. So, pay people to vote. I bet that gets the turn out much higher.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Yes, a totalitarian practice. Not the practice of a free society. Such a requirement here would require an amendment to the Constitution and revising the laws of all 50 states. Things are always so easy in the criminal mind of the dictator.

one would thing in a free society ... well the person would have the right to vote or not.

not in obama land, asshole!

what obama wants is more of the obama welfare kind to vote, thinking we have 50% of America on welfare, thanks to obama

 

[NeverEndingMe]

In America money talks and bullshit walks. So, pay people to vote. I bet that gets the turn out much higher.

your kind is so mentally fucked in the head


get a job

 

[Sean Renaud]

Yes, a totalitarian practice. Not the practice of a free society. Such a requirement here would require an amendment to the Constitution and revising the laws of all 50 states. Things are always so easy in the criminal mind of the dictator.

I don't care if it's a totalitarian practice one bit, we're not a free society and you have no more interest in one than I do. Why would this require a Constitutional Amendment? It doesn't seem like anything that couldn't be handled with a simple federal law. "Thou shalt vote, here are the methods acceptable, here are the proofs you will require."

The problems with this are really that politically only the Republicans can push for this without being jack asses Republicans don't want people voting. History tells us when people vote Republicans lose which is why Obama wants it and why Vette doesn't.

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

I don't care if it's a totalitarian practice one bit, we're not a free society and you have no more interest in one than I do. Why would this require a Constitutional Amendment? It doesn't seem like anything that couldn't be handled with a simple federal law. "Thou shalt vote, here are the methods acceptable, here are the proofs you will require."

The problems with this are really that politically only the Republicans can push for this without being jack asses Republicans don't want people voting. History tells us when people vote Republicans lose which is why Obama wants it and why Vette doesn't.

Hahahaha, what an idiot.

Laugh it up, but it's true and you know it.

When voter turnout is high, conservatives lose, big.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Hahahaha, what an idiot.

Please stop posting this kind of content-free snark, forever. It's embarrassing, mainly to you but also to all of us. If that's all you have to say, don't say it.

 

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Obama always thinking like a totalitarian dictator, adopts the Soviet idea of mandatory voting. Will we have to show an ink stained finger to the police? This man has no concept whatsoever of the prerogatives of a free society:


Obama calls for mandatory voting in U.S.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 18, 2015
President Obama, whose party was trounced in last year’s midterm election due in part to poor turnout among Democrats, endorsed the idea of mandatory voting Wednesday.

“It would be transformative if everybody voted,” Mr. Obama said during a town-hall event in Cleveland. “That would counteract [campaign] money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.”

Mr. Obama raised the subject during a discussion of curbing the influence of campaign donations in U.S. elections. The president said he had never discussed the idea publicly before, but said Australia and some other countries have compulsory voting.

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Because he knows the least informed are the easiest swayed which is why Carville is a Democratic Advisor, rather than a Republican advisor.

 

[sr71plt]

Australia is a free society, and Australians can be fined for not voting.

I was going to note that too.

I'm all for that. Anything to get those reactionary rightists out of their Laz-Y-Boys and the blood circulation back to their brains.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Because he knows the least informed are the easiest swayed . . .

You mean, Fox News viewers?

 

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[KingOrfeo]

No, he means the viewers of the unsustainable audiences of MSNBC and CNN.

Then he is mistaken; studies show Fox viewers are not only worse-informed than any other news channel's viewers, they are worse-informed than people who watch no news at all. Mainly because Fox keeps lying to them.

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

Yes, studies like those refuted studies showing that 97% of scientists believe in man caused climate change.

Polls also show Fox to be the most trusted cable news source as well.

Hahahaha, what an idiot.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Hahahaha, what an idiot.

Yes, I am an idiot. Now can you please explain to me why this needs a Constitutional Amendment? Explain it like I'm five years old watching Barney the Purple Dinosaur.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

Because states decide who gets to vote, when they vote, how they vote. The federal government has no authority to dictate a mandatory voting law to the states. There are federal laws against discrimination but a mandatory law would violate the First Amendment in my view. The right to free speech implies a right not to speak as well. Not voting can be a statement in itself. Mandatory voting laws would compel speech. Technically, the states could compel their citizens to vote under their rights to write election law and under the Tenth Amendment.

Article II, Section 1 gives state legislatures the power to determine the method of selecting electors in the Electoral College. However the Constitution does not require state legislatures to even grant their citizens the right to vote for presidential electors. Congress’s power over presidential elections is confined to “determin[ing] the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Vote." Thus if Congress cannot compel the state legislatures to let *anyone* vote in presidential elections under its Article II powers, it's clear Congress cannot use these powers to compel *everyone* to vote.

Nothing about mandatory voting would really prevent you from not speaking as our Aussie brother has explained above. It's in effect a census and the First Amendment does not protect you from a census.

You're second paragraph refers to electors as in the electoral college. Nothing about individuals.

So I'm still confused but I know you're tired of me so I'll see if someone else can explain.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Because states decide who gets to vote, when they vote, how they vote. The federal government has no authority to dictate a mandatory voting law to the states. There are federal laws against discrimination but a mandatory law would violate the First Amendment in my view. The right to free speech implies a right not to speak as well.

Oh I love it when the fatass Marine, who always tells us with pride about his strict constructionism, talks out of the other side of his mouth about implied rights.