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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on November 04, 2012, 11:18:04 AM
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barnabas63 (787 posts)
It's ridiculous what people have to go through in order to vote.
There's no reason why everyone can't do it like Washington state (and other states do it this way - I'm sure). Mail the frickin' ballots out to people!!!! No one has to wait in line! The only cost to the voter is the 30-cents or so for return postage.
No drama.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251209650
If standing in line is such a chore to vote then you obviously have no appreciation for that right. Which doesn't surprise me you idiots never appreciate actual rights and only cherish rights that you dream up.
Wouldn't the 30 cents for a stamp be a poll tax?
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barnabas63 (787 posts)
It's ridiculous what people have to go through in order to vote.
There's no reason why everyone can't do it like Washington state (and other states do it this way - I'm sure). Mail the frickin' ballots out to people!!!! No one has to wait in line! The only cost to the voter is the 30-cents or so for return postage.
No drama.
So paying for postage and mailing out your ballot is no problem but showing identification in order to vote is? ::)
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In DUworld - a poll tax (in this case, making a citizen pay for a stamp) is okay as long as the poll method makes fraud easier, and not harder.
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Is it hard to vote? This is what I'll be doing on Tuesday in Nevada:
Working from 6:45am-3:15pm at a big evil bank
Picking up my daughter, in my Jaguar, from daycare around 3:30pm
Driving to the poll and arriving there around 3:50pm
Waiting in line for an hour or two with a three year old
Tell the poll worker my name/DOB (whatever they need) when I finally get to the front of the line
Signing a piece of paper
Getting my card to put in the machine
Walking over to the next available machine
Vote a straight Republican ticket
Get back in my Jaguar and drive back to my house in the suburbs
Log into Conservative Cave and watch the DU heads exploded later in the evening
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Couldn't we have door to door canvassers? They could visit the my folks house and get their vote and then come down to the basement and get mine. Maybe they could bring Cheetos too.
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I would rather stand in line to vote every couple of years than stand in line to pay $4.00 for a fat free mocha at Starbucks every morning.
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Crazy isn't it, to be slightly inconvenienced for a while while you help decide the future of your country and get a say in how it's run.
I mean the US could just get rid of elections altogether and be happy like the North Koreans...oh.
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barnabas63 (801 posts)
It's ridiculous what people have to go through in order to vote.
You can say that again. I'm going to crawl two miles through broken glass in my shorts and then wade across an icy creek to rinse off on my way to vote for Romney/Ryan on Tuesday.
But why don't you just sit this one out if it's too much trouble, barnabasnumbers.
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And yet they can stand in line all day for ComiCon or for free stuff.
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And yet they can stand in line all day for ComiCon or for free stuff.
We could put up signs "Now accepting applications" near polling places and all the Democrats would scatter and not show up in that area for a few weeks.
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We could put up signs "Now accepting applications" near polling places and all the Democrats would scatter and not show up in that area for a few weeks.
:rotf: hi 5.
Maybe do that Tuesday. Better than voter fraud!
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Voting should require:
Valid ID
Proof of citizenship
Proof of residency
No felony convictions
Pulse and respiration
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If it is that much of a hassle, dumbass, then stay home and watch Spongebob.
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Voting should require:
Valid ID
Proof of citizenship
Proof of residency
No felony convictions
Pulse and respiration
Fixed it for you, freeper! </DU mode>
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It's pretty damn bad when you feel the need to make a post about how utterly lazy and useless you are in a sadly lame attempt to get some wee bit of recognition from a group of drugged out mentally ill losers.
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You should also have to pass random questions before you are able to vote. Have the machine pick four questions at random. Like who is the current Secretary Of State, what is the DOJ, who is the head of the CIA, what is the first amendment of the constitution, what is the 2nd...etc.
If you pass then your ballot comes up on the screen. If you fail it tells you you have no business voting.
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You should also have to pass random questions before you are able to vote. Have the machine pick four questions at random. Like who is the current Secretary Of State, what is the DOJ, who is the head of the CIA, what is the first amendment of the constitution, what is the 2nd...etc.
If you pass then your ballot comes up on the screen. If you fail it tells you you have no business voting.
Maybe just make voters pass the citizenship test when they first register to vote, and everytime they change their registration.
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Yeah DUmmy. Standing on line to vote is almost the same inconvenience our Soldiers who died to give you the right to vote endured. :whatever:
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So paying for postage and mailing out your ballot is no problem but showing identification in order to vote is? ::)
Not like the completely sound and financially solvent USPS would have any problem with it..... :whistling:
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Vote a straight Republican ticket
Get back in my Jaguar and drive back to my house in the suburbs
Spoken like a true %1er!
:p
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barnabas63 (787 posts)
It's ridiculous what people have to go through in order to vote.
It took me 10 minutes to vote from the minute I walked in to the minute I walked out. It took me 30 minutes to get a flu shot.
:bird:
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Yeah DUmmy. Standing on line to vote is almost the same inconvenience our Soldiers who died to give you the right to vote endured. :whatever:
Exactly the DUmmies are a bunch of whiny assholes.
I bet they would stand in line for free weed.
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If it's too much trouble, Barney, then stay home.
Please.
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It took me 10 minutes to vote from the minute I walked in to the minute I walked out. It took me 30 minutes to get a flu shot.
:bird:
I don't think it took me even that long.
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Voting should require:
Valid ID
Proof of citizenship
Proof of residency
No felony convictions
Pulse and respiration
Real estate tax receipt
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barnabas63 (787 posts)
It's ridiculous what people have to go through in order to vote.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251209650
I bet these same people are the ones that camp out for days at a time to get the next electronic devise that is released...ie the ipad or what ever is was/is
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It took me 10 minutes to vote from the minute I walked in to the minute I walked out. It took me 30 minutes to get a flu shot.
:bird:
I do both tomorrow!
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Get back in my Jaguar and drive back to my house in the suburbs
I hope you use only two syllables to pronounce Jaguar (as in "jag-waar" and not three (as in "jag-oo-ar") like some pretentious east coast lib.
Yes, I know British people pronounce it with three syllables, but that is precisely because they are BRITISH.
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I bet these same people are the ones that camp out for days at a time to get the next electronic device that is released...ie the ipad or what ever is was/is.
Oh my.
You must've been reading my own mind last night.
Usually the day after Thanksgiving, the primitives boast about having stood in line since midnight or something outside a big retail outlet in the dark and cold and crowds so they'd be among the first to get some sort of new electronic toy.
It surely shows the primitive priorities.
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I hope you use only two syllables to pronounce Jaguar (as in "jag-waar" and not three (as in "jag-oo-ar") like some pretentious east coast lib.
Yes, I know British people pronounce it with three syllables, but that is precisely because they are BRITISH.
I say, "Jag-war"
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They haven't made a Jag-u-ar since the E Type. :-)
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I say, "Jag-war"
I say "jag-wire".
What do I win?
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I say "jag-wire".
What do I win?
A pencil.
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A pencil.
Score!
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I say "jag-wire".
What do I win?
You get to post here at CC for an entire year for free.
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I say, "Jag-war"
No, no, no....it's "HAHG- huarrrrrr" rolling the "R" at the end.