Voting

[Lucy]

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Australia makes it mandatory to vote. I know a guy who was actually hauled into court for not voting. Think how different American politics would be if everyone voted.

Aloha,
Rob L

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Rob,
That would only make sense if the voters studied it until they acually knew what was going on and then took a test to see how well they really knew. Maybe just a simple ttest about history and what happened politically, not related to the current election. Same in this country, have 'em take a test and what percentage that they get right on the test scores is what percentage their vote weighs in toward the total.

Having a law doesn't work to force them to vote, IMO. Here in our country, there are folks that hire people to stand in line and picket/protest whatever it is that may bother them. They have been exposed when someone questions them about the subject they are against and don't have a clue, other than to say that they were hired to be there. Seems they go to the local homeless shelter and can get a bunch of folks with nothing to do and want to have some spending money. Looks impressive when you have a crowd of protestors, until there isn't a valid one there, come to find out.

I always considered the sign wavers to be the ones who were usually related to the one who they were promoting, at least that is how I dismissed them. I was not going to go talk politics with them, when you can read all the information you can want about it to form your own opinion. It did not change my mind at all. What could you really learn from them?

Aloha,
Lucy

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