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2008-11-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The best way to discourage mindless voting is to tie it directly to jury duty. 'You will be called', if for no other reason than to count heads, will have a far greater effect of weeding out the slackers and frauds from the civic minded.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-03 07:46|| 2008-11-03 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 How do you think they get your info for jury duty now?

Posted by WilliamMarcyTweed 2008-11-03 08:10|| 2008-11-03 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Ditto P2k. It really is a lovely piece of irony that attendees of the Obama "victory party" at Chicago's Grant Park must show proper IDENTIFICATION!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-03 08:11|| 2008-11-03 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 One more thing:

"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong." Robert Heinlein

Posted by WilliamMarcyTweed 2008-11-03 08:12|| 2008-11-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 That's how democracies fall to special interest groups Mr Stossel.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 10:04|| 2008-11-03 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 How do you think they get your info for jury duty now?

One, in some areas they've reverted to drivers license data to send notices, because of people who don't register to avoid jury duty.

Two, everyone should get a call whether they're asked to serve or not, just to get a head count every two or three years to keep the rolls certified. Those caught in Ohio registering and voting [and then withdrawing their vote] were playing the game that a lot of individual engage in that they are statistically unlikely to be called for such duties. Let's remove the game out of process and insure that one shows or has legitimate reason [performing federal duties like service in Iraq et al] not to be present.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-03 10:13|| 2008-11-03 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Black or White, that's all democrats need to know to make an informed vote this year. Oddly enough, they are the ones who have made it that way. Republicans were happy to set race aside as they could never get a fair shake on any discussion of race as a factor. It always ends with one person pointing their finger and yelling "racist" when they run out of arguments.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-03 10:26|| 2008-11-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 We should separate the Federal ballot from the state ballot. The Federal should only include Pres/Senate/Congress so it is short and sweet. Scan tron to make sure everyone who went to school understands it. We should promote mail-in voting so that these ballots are simply dumped into a machine and counted on election day. If the ballot is spoiled you get a new one on election day when you turn in the old one and watch it get shredded on the spot (after an ID check).

Such a system would remove butterfly ballot nonsense, or electronic voting issues. It would allow time for the names to compared with registration lists that is not available on Election day and would allow for a massive, quick vote once they start voting.

The states can handle the other ballot stuff anyway they want. Yeah the feds can't institute this sort of thing but a group could put a ballot measure in every state and implement it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-03 13:19|| 2008-11-03 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 In the old paper ballot days, protesters could receive a ballot and return it unmarked. A large number of unmarked ballots indicated rejection of all candidates and parties.

Posted by Bob Gleagum3700 2008-11-03 14:53|| 2008-11-03 14:53|| Front Page Top

#10 No politician will dare allow a ballot with the option 'NONE of the ABOVE' on any candidate selection.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-03 19:39|| 2008-11-03 19:39|| Front Page Top

#11 OTOH, consider WAFF > MUSLIM UMMAH'S TOTAL STRENGTHS by 2020!? Pan-Muslim Unity and MilPol, etc. Power Scenario, circa Year 2020.

POSTER > ALL THINGS EQUAL, THE GREATEST OBSTRUCTION TO MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC POWER IS OTHER MUSLIMS = MUSLIM DISUNITY, which does nothing for Muslims save to serve the interests and power of the US-West and JudeoChristianity.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-03 23:45|| 2008-11-03 23:45|| Front Page Top

#12 More from WAFF > INDIA HAS 174 TERROR GROUPS [known/recognized], MANIPOUR ALONE HAS 40.

HARRISON FORD in commercial > FLORIDA 2000 was decided by only 500-plus votes, proving that one person's vote can make a diference.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-03 23:49|| 2008-11-03 23:49|| Front Page Top

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