I’m Guessing This Guy’s Favorite Song is “American Idiot” . . .
. . . because it apparently describes him perfectly. And no, I’m not talking about anyone we’ve featured here at TAH before.
I’m talking about this guy at Yahoo News – who says we should make voting legally mandatory.
I’m not joking. Seriously.
Before you laugh: Austrailia apparently already does that. And it’s no more farfetched than being taxed for breathing. IMO, in direct contravention of the Constitutional prohibition on per-capita taxation ObamaCare does exactly that; and the SCOTUS – in what is IMO a truly boneheaded opinion authored by it’s current Chief Justice – has said that’s OK.
Mandatory voting. Sounds like a wonderfully Soviet Progressive concept, doesn’t it?
Category: Politics
Belgium also does (or, at least, did). My late wife got in a panic when she first came here because she was missing election day. We had to go to a police station and get a signed statement that she was here in the US or she would have received a big fine.
Okay so having to show ID to vote is racist and this tool wants to make voting mandatory? Sure I’ll sign on to that idea. Right after everyone has to pass an annual test. The same one they give people for citizenship.
I saw something on the BBC about the current round of Iraqi elections and they were using some sort of electronic thumb-print reader to make sure that the voter was legitimate. They can manage that, but somehow we can’t manage to even make voters show an ID.
Huh. I wonder if he also wants folks to put their thumbprint on their ballot as well. You know, to prove they’ve voted……
I’m sure Obama and the leftists would LOVE to be able to match thumbprints against ballots and see who voted for whom.
The graveyard vote isn’t enough these days?
There’s a quote that describes the logic behind what idiot is advocating: “EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY.”
The phrase was originally used by author T. H. White in “The Once and Future King” when describing the view of an anthill from the point of view of one of the worker ants. In White’s work, that phrase was posted at each entrance to the hill – presumably to remind the ants that they had no freedoms, and must do what – and only what – they were told to do by leadership.
The physicist Murray Gell-Mann re-used the phrase in describing his theory of subatomic particle behavior in quantum mechanics. He gave it the phrase its current name, which is chilling and apropos: “The Totalitarian Principle”.
Anyone who advocates giving any government that much power over people’s behavior is nothing but a damn fool. And I assert that as fact, not opinion.
Please, please let’s never do this. It is too hard now to get informed voters into the booths as it stands. I personally do not want the illiterate masses voting for anything under compulsion to do so.
Yawn. Fallacious “good ol’ days” logical fallacy accompanied by poorly-understood pseudo history followed by a sweet package of liberal agenda. Just what I needed to start myself up in in the morning.
And here I am wanting to restrict the vote to Veterans (AF and Navy officers excluded, unless prior EMs), those who have held a job for at least five years (non-defense gov’t jobs excluded, w/o exception), those who can read but hold no degree higher than a Master’s, provided, if at least one of the foregoing qualifications is met, the citizen achieve at least 80% on a ten-question civics quiz and a ten-question American history quiz.
I think you should have to show a copy of your last W-2 to vote.
Twist…I’ll vote for that and a legal citizen’s ID.
Well, you’ll be happy to know that in a number of states, mentally retarded/disabled/challenged/whatever persons can vote, even from the nuthouse. And since residency and voter eligibility are–except for certain offices with minimum age or natural born citizen (no Caesarians!)requirements –all that is needed to run for office, this explains a lot.