KPETE wants mandatory voting! Barry says **** yeah!

[dutch508]

kpete (45,635 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026383255

BREAKING: President Obama Wants To Propose 'Mandatory Voting.' It would change everything.
Mandatory voting? Obama says it would be 'transformative'
By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press
Updated 3:17 pm, Wednesday, March 18, 2015

 

Just how would that work I wonder? Just documented citizens? No felons, no illegals, no dead people....

I seriously doubt that's what kpete has in mind.

totodeinhere (8,367 posts)
4. Would this require a constitutional amendment or would simple legislation do it? The article did not seem clear on that.

Barry can do it with a stroke of his pen!

ARMYofONE (67 posts)
5. Not a bad idea, but probably unconstitutional. The right of freedom of speech includes the right not to speak. This seems like compelled speech.

Yah think? Obvious mole alerted on.

mfcorey1 (5,417 posts)
6. Include Presidential election day as a holiday to coincide with mandatory voting. Can he just do an executive order for it?

Ah.... no.

Cha (159,150 posts)
11. "If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country," If everyone was required to vote.. they just might inform themselves on the issues. Everything is political.. Air, Water, Food, etc etc.

Mahalo kpete

we'd rather the voters be stupid drunk stoned and on welfare, thank you very much. [/du]

Matterate (6 posts)
15. This is a wonderful idea.

I think anyone who doesn't vote should be ineligible for any and all government benefits, earned or not.

That would get people to the polls.

And I think anyone on the public dole doesn't get to vote.

 

[Carl]

Be careful what you wish for cretins.

They believe that if everyone was compelled to vote then everyone would be as they are and vote to have a blank check issued in their name.

However DUmbasses,being forced to do something at the point of a government sword may lead people to vote to limit the power that government has over them.
You know,kind of like the founders did after actually experiencing the tyranny you stupidly think will give you a life of ease.

[Tess Anderson]

Well, I'm reading through the thread to see if kpete did anything but her typical c/p, but of course not.

They really are sheep - Obama says "mandatory voting" and they all bleat "yes".

Response to kpete (Original post)Wed Mar 18, 2015, 08:34 PM
Star Member TBF (27,778 posts)
29. Can it be done via executive order -

because the Repugs are NOT going to like this.

typical communist

[thundley4]

In order to ensure that everyone votes, there would need to be some sort of national ID card, and some way to verify that people are eligible to vote.

Obama, like most idiot liberals, didn't think his idea all the way through.

[FlaGator]

That idea has "unintended consequences" written all over it.

[docstew]

Be careful what you wish for cretins.

They believe that if everyone was compelled to vote then everyone would be as they are and vote to have a blank check issued in their name.

However DUmbasses,being forced to do something at the point of a government sword may lead people to vote to limit the power that government has over them.
You know,kind of like the founders did after actually experiencing the tyranny you stupidly think will give you a life of ease.

I'm down for mandatory voting, with 4 conditions:
1) in order to register to vote, an applicant must present a state-issued photo ID (free if necessary), must prove they are eligible to vote, and must pass the naturalization exam.
2) When arriving to vote, they must present the SAME state-issued photo ID, and must sign a form affirming that they are still eligible to vote in that polling place (felony perjury and permanent forfeiture of voting rights and gov't benefits for false statement)
3) Income tax withholding is made illegal, and all citizens must write a check for the total amount of tax owed, postmarked between 8 and 15 April
4) Election day is 16 April.

[GOBUCKS]

President Obama Wants To Propose 'Mandatory Voting.'

Interesting position for a guy who, when he showed up at all, voted "present".

[obumazombie]

Ancient Greece used to enforce mandatory voting.
look where they are now.

[98ZJUSMC]

Be careful what you wish for cretins.

They believe that if everyone was compelled to vote then everyone would be as they are and vote to have a blank check issued in their name.

However DUmbasses,being forced to do something at the point of a government sword may lead people to vote to limit the power that government has over them.
You know,kind of like the founders did after actually experiencing the tyranny you stupidly think will give you a life of ease.

This is where my line of thinking goes.  Quite frankly, I think it would have the opposite effect the Romper Room thinks it would.

[98ZJUSMC]

Ancient Greece used to enforce mandatory voting.
look where they are now.

Australia has it. The LIbEralS got wasted last election.

[Skul]

Australia has it. The LIbEralS got wasted last election.

Strange as it seems, the liberals in Oz, are the Conservatives. The socialist types, are Labour.

[Reality vs DU]

Interesting position for a guy who, when he showed up at all, voted "present".

Excellent observation.

[Reality vs DU]

This is, of course, a terrible idea. 

There are already too many people that vote that are uninformed, and subsequently vote for whatever candidate they like based on really silly reasons.  First black guy would be a good example. 

Imagine forcing people who could genuinely care less about news and politics to vote.  I personally know a few folks like this.  I say good thing most of them don't vote.  We probably already have too many people in this country that vote.     

[delilahmused]

Welfare Moms Who Vote

Chapter 1

What do you mean the bus to the polls came by at noon?

I set my alarm for 9:00!

AM or PM?

There's a difference?

[JohnnyReb]

Most of the people I know that don't vote would vote conservative. They don't vote because they say they're all alike, won't change anything.

[Rebel]

midnight (25,214 posts)

10. How about a holiday off instead so more folks could vote.

This would blow up in you fools' faces worse than this dude's experiment:


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717vb7kLKKk[/youtube]

[Texacon]

I'm good with it.  3 more changes need to be made.

1.)  Polls open the first Tuesday after April the 15th.

2.)  Anyone on government assistance or can't show a federal tax receipt showing they paid taxes, can't vote.

3.)  No names are put on the ballot.  You put the top 20 issues and the voter chooses how they stand on those issues.  The computer tabulates how many of those issues go to the candidate and that's who your vote is cast for.

KC

[franksolich]

That idea has "unintended consequences" written all over it.

It sure does.

The primitives, including, surprisingly, Skins himself, who should know better, think that things will have only the consequences they want; they never consider the then-unknown consequences too.

This goes along with their practice of thinking something to a desired conclusion.....and then stopping thinking.

[franksolich]

I'm down for mandatory voting, with 4 conditions:
.....3) Income tax withholding is made illegal, and all citizens must write a check for the total amount of tax owed, postmarked between 8 and 15 April

4) Election day is 16 April.

Yes, absolutely.

Gradual withholding, ostensibly meant to make payment easier, at the same time makes one unaware of how much one's actually paying.....and easier for the politicians to raise taxes.

[docstew]

Yes, absolutely.

Gradual withholding, ostensibly meant to make payment easier, at the same time makes one unaware of how much one's actually paying.....and easier for the politicians to raise taxes.

Precisely. If you have to write a check for a specific amount for the privilege of being a US citizen, you will 1) respect it more and not want to give it away to anyone who shows up and 2) howl everytime a politician says anything about "we only have to raise taxes this much".

[FaC]

I'm down for mandatory voting, with 4 conditions:
1) in order to register to vote, an applicant must present a state-issued photo ID (free if necessary), must prove they are eligible to vote, and must pass the naturalization exam.
2) When arriving to vote, they must present the SAME state-issued photo ID, and must sign a form affirming that they are still eligible to vote in that polling place (felony perjury and permanent forfeiture of voting rights and gov't benefits for false statement)
3) Income tax withholding is made illegal, and all citizens must write a check for the total amount of tax owed, postmarked between 8 and 15 April
4) Election day is 16 April.

Hear, Hear

hi-5 given

[JohnnyReb]

Mandatory voting......even though there's only one name per office on the ballot.

[delilahmused]

Trying to figure out how to make this work without racist practices like requiring ID...

Cindie

[thundley4]

Trying to figure out how to make this work without racist practices like requiring ID...

Cindie

It wouldn't work without a national ID and having to prove citizenship.  Some republican needs to come up with a bill real quick and watch Obama start back pedaling.

[Big Dog]

Voting is a state or local function. The feral government inserted itself under the guise of protecting the civil right to vote, but it has no constitutional or statutory authority to require citizens to do it.

And Barry the Boy King knows it. Asshole.