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Ten Things the Government Could Do To Encourage Americans To Vote

posted September 18, 2006 - 3:52am
Ten Things the Government Could Do To Encourage Americans To Vote

10. Offer Cash Incentives

How else do you get a large group of complacent citizens to care about something they know nothing about? Offer them cash, prizes, and free food! Even if they don't know anything about the candidates or issues, how hard is it to complete a ballot? So, you voted for a candidate that was violently against Network Neutrality? No problem! Nobody needs to see what those porn sites, advertisements, and fruity liberals have to say anyway! Down with free speech!

9. Make Voting Mandatory

Why not? What's the worse that could happen? A President we all hate gets a majority of the votes? Well, hell! That's never happened! We survived one term of Bush. The jury's still out on the current one.

I mean, what's really so wrong with forcing people to vote? Look at it this way...from a non-voters point of view...

Okay, I'm a liberal. I think it's important for people to vote, because that's how this country is supposed to thrive. Maybe in your little closed mind you figure that since I'm the one that's aggressively campaigning for people to vote, that all pro-voters are liberals. Do you really want people like me to be in the majority?

Maybe it's a stretch, I don't know. I try not to think like an un-educated fool.

8.5 Hire Porn Stars To Work the Polls

Hey, who doesn't like to see a sexy woman with GGG breasts? Or, a buff dude with a 12 inch..

8. Online and Telephone Voting

It works for American Idol. Over 30 million people vote every week for that piece of crap.

7. Give Us More Interesting Candidates

Cartoon characters like George W. Bush and Al Gore do nothing for the American people. What we need is someone like Alice Cooper, Weird Al, or Rob Zombie in the Oval Office.

6. Or, Better Yet, Put No Confidence On the Ballot

Many countries leaders have been defeated by no confidence - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vanuatu. If no confidence wins, then the current candidates lose and the elections start all over again. It might take awhile, but we'd eventually end up with a President that we could agree on. Voting for the lesser of two evils should never be an option.

5. "Lower the voting age to five."

Thank you, Jello Biafra!

Hey, why not? Set an example for our children by showing them how important having the right to vote is. Not everyone in this world has the same privileges we do. It's about time we start respecting that.

4. Ban Minorities From Voting

I'm not sure if this would work, but I think it's important to mention. If you tell me and all my female friends that it's against the law for us to vote, we're certainly going to start paying attention. Sometimes you have to shock or piss people off to get their attention.

3. Give Us More Options

Democrat. Republican. Democrat. Republican.

Wait a minute! There are more than two kinds of people in this country. Give us two and a half options, at least!

2. No Campaigning

The information that's been provided to us during campaigns is just a collection of lies. The only time you should get to infect our brains is during the public debates. And, as far as those debates are concerned, let the people ask the questions. No one goes home or to sleep until the candidates give an honest answer.

1. If They Won't Come To You, Go To Them

You can't really make it easier than that.


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Licenses are NOT TAXES.

Licenses are NOT TAXES. They are FEES. There's a world of difference. You're paying a FEE for a PRIVILEDGE. Fees are OPTIONAL, taxes are not. You opt to fish, you opt to drive(by the way, 14 years olds driving?). If your state taxes kids who make pennies waiting tables in their spare time, shame on that state. The federal government doesn't do it. The kid checks off "exempt" on their tax form and that's the end of it. As for sales tax, first of all again that's on a state level, not federal. Second of all, save for a few cases, I think most kids are spending their parents' money, at least in part. However, if you eliminated sales tax on children, every adult in the world would go out and have a child, whom they'd make pay for everything when it got to the register, including houses and cars, and the world is a rediculous place when a 3 year old owns a house and a car. So, unfortunately, there's really no way around that one. "Thank you for driving carefully through the villiage." That's what the sign says.

Yes elimate the primaries

They drag things out, waste time, and the best man or woman does not always win. So let there be 10 or 20 at least we would all know that the person who did win did actually get the most votes. And do away with the stupid electorial college. They are no longer needed. We the people should have the right to only have the popular vote win and do not need the electorial vote. Those people do not honestly vote how the people really want to vote. They vote how they want to vote.

Celanith

Hello everyone, stop and set awhile.

License's are Taxes

In many states once a child reaches age 14 he/she has to purchase a fishing or hunting license that is a tax. When they go to a story and purchase anything themselves from money they got mowing lawns or washing cars, or from grandma and have to pay sales tax it is being taxed. Who of their peers is representing them? NO ONE! 16 year olds are even more taxed when they get a job as a waitress part time or even get a driver permit or license those are all taxes. When they purchase gas for their car they bought with money they earned doing any part time job. They are taxed. Maybe some kids don't but kids who have learned the value of a dollar by working for it and many kids have learned this. They get taxed somewhere along the way when they purchase anything and if they work some states take out income tax as well. So yes 14 year olds have been taxed at least in my state they are. I don't know about California.

Celanith

Hello everyone, stop and set awhile.

14 year-olds aren't taxed!

14 year-olds aren't taxed! What, sales tax, to buy stuff with mom and dad's money? Please. Income tax if they can find a job at 14? They'd never make enough money to pay anything, they'd be exempt. And do away with primaries?!?! We can't even distinguish TWO candidates, you want us to have hundreds? Isn't that what got the governator elected in California?

I would vote for Weird Al

At least he might actually be fun or funny. I like the no confidence vote; lets vote them all out of office and start with a clean slate. I could go with mandantory vote too and though I think age 5 is a bit young. I think if 14 year olds are taxed and they are for many things they have the right to vote. And do away with the time wasting primary's. Let them all be on the ballot at General election time and someone might actually win who might really care about this country and the people in it. Seems after the primary's the worst of the worst wins and we have to vote between tweedledee and tweedledum. Both morons.

Celanith

Hello everyone, stop and set awhile.

So true..

There's probably not a faster way to get someone interested in something than to tell them they're not allowed to do it.

Right on..

Humor aside, that's really the only one we need. :)

I'm a strong believer in #4,

I'm a strong believer in #4, but why stop at minorities? Ban everyone from voting and only let them back in when they prove they have at least some rudimentary knowledge of the candidates and the state of the union, and possibly how the two coincide.

How about, "Show us that

How about, "Show us that voting works". That would make me a believer.

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