They say the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama wants to add one more: voting.
Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U.S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the corrosive influence of money in U.S. elections, Obama digressed into the related topic of voting rights and said the U.S. should be making it easier — not harder— for people to vote.
Just ask Australia, where citizens have no choice but to vote, the president said.
"If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country," Obama said, calling it potentially transformative. Not only that, Obama said, but universal voting would "counteract money more than anything."
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14 comments:
Purely a logistical improbability.Australia has a total population of less that 24 million people.NY State alone has a population of almost 20 million by itself.As usual with Obama,the numbers relevant to his great ideas don't equate to anything remotely possible.Census workers in the US are among the most at risk employees in the country.Imagine trying to get everyone to vote when their existence cannot even be fully verified.
F him ,2017 cant come fast enough with this treasonous dirtbag.
We have too many people that shouldn't vote.....voting should be restricted to productive members of society - have (or had=retired) a job and pay taxes. Everyone on welfare to start with should be excluded as a conflict of interest - they would vote for whomever gives them stuff!
I like it actually.
I go along with this as long that voter ID laws are passed as well.
You must be ILLEGAL.
I agree with 11:11 AM!
for those that don't register on their own, they'll be automatically registered as democrats and have their votes automatically entered for them
Does that include the ones on the Social Security role which are over 116 yrs old? And the few still on the role born before the Civil War? This would be an impossible task besides what penalty for not voting...jail?
11:02
So why doesn't every state do exactly what Australia do under a federal mandate? America can scale policies like that and we should take advantage of it!
"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
Mickey Mouse might finally win one.
If Obama is supporting this, you know it's gonna be bad for the country.
Everyone has to pay taxes so why not everyone has to vote. No brainer really.
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