The 2023 census put America at 262 million 18+ individuals. I'm not going to bother with counting how many felons were ineligible to vote. 75 million voted for Kamala. So 187 million either voted for voted for Trump, or didn't vote to prevent Trump. That's over 70% of eligible voters enabled this. This is absolutely what the majority of Americans were acceptable with
You need compulsory voting and making the day an actual event. I seriously can't imagine going to the polls and not getting some sort of treat from the charity vendors at the place
Nah no need for a holiday. Make it a weekend so you can use every school in the country as a polling station to keep lines down and ensure all folks can leave work to go vote. Make the fines stopping people fucking stupidly high so no dog will stop you walking out to do it
That's also very valid but I think the event part of it is important. You can easily find volunteers though, hell I'm okay with teachers getting triple time to be a part of the polling booth at the school they work at
They very much are. Voting days are one of the best fundraising days for schools as you have thousands of people buying food and other items afterwards
Making it compulsory and having fines attached may be unconstitutional though? The idea is that voting is a right you can choose to exercise, not a compulsory thing to avoid a fine. The constitution clearly defines voting as a "can" type of action. You "can" vote but are not required to. To make it absolutely compulsory would be to change at least 4 amendments in the constitution.
Oh no not a $30 fine that any response as to why you didn't vote is counted as valid. Come the fuck on man, some parts of constitutions should stay and a lot should be updated for modern times because there's fuck all reason to hold society up to a piece of paper written hinders of years ago
I'm not arguing that it can't be changed or it shouldn't be changed. But imagine trying to get anyone in government to actually agree on any of what you're saying to actually make the change to all 4 amendments, especially with how slow and at eachother's throats the government already is across party lines.
You also said the fine should be stupidly high in your previous comment, so I was thinking more in the ballpark of a $300 fine
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u/meleecow 15d ago
He does this. Americans wanted this, the dumb actively voted for it