Gedunker said:
Maybe voting, like military service, should be compulsory...
Ocassionally we hear the cry to make voting registration and voting easier. I say, let's not. We need safeguards to protect elections from voter fraud.
If registering to vote is so difficult, and going down to your polling place to vote or vote absentee is so onerous a task, then you really aren't dedicated enough to the democratic process to be involved. Stay home and bitch about government, but leave voting to those of us who are willing to make an effort.
Just today in a public hearing someone made the point that a minority of the people voted in the county commissioner's election and the majority of the people were "unrepresented." That is BS. They are represented. They are represented by the commissioners and other officials the good citizens chose.
Most adults in the United States get to make a choice on Election Day. You can chose to vote for your candidate, or you can chose to cast a non-vote by not getting off your ass and getting involved.
For years my mom was an election commissioner in my precinct. Not voting really wasn't much of an option for me. She didn't care how I voted. She knew we did not see eye-to-eye politically. But she expected me to show up and do my civic duty. One of the many lessons she gave me and one of the few that stuck. Thanks for that, Mom.
