• fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          No postage needed in California, nor Massachusetts if I recall correctly. Does your state really make you find a stamp to vote in 2024? That sucks, sorry to hear that.

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        I mean, at least put it on the weekend, like other countries (or at least mine).

        Allow early in-person voting centres and postal votes. Make it convenient.

        Though, maybe these are only widespread in mandatory voting counties (like mine), because you’d get massive complaints if it wasn’t convenient.

        Turnout is unsurprisingly, very high here.

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          You don’t have public transit on national holidays and Sundays? Next you are going to ask who is going to work in hospitals and restaurants

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      The government should pass a law that it’s required to vote, or give a reasonable explanation why you can’t. Employers are punished for keeping their employees from voting.

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        Hi, it’s me, Australia, you might remember me from such democratic innovations as the secret ballot and mandatory voting, America will never have mandatory voting because it works about as well as gun control, single payer health care, and the metric system.

        Also many places have mandatory voting but very few enforce it, I would put money on America being one of those places if it somehow got a foothold.

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        That is.

        It reminds me of a time I got arrested for giving a nice old lady a bottle of water while she was waiting in line to vote in Georgia and it became a big deal. I got charged, convicted and sentenced to prison time but luckily my friend Jerry Seinfeld springs Larry out of jail after he discovers a juror broke his sequester, causing a mistrial and the sentence being thrown out.

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      Counter-proposition: you get to choose - either you cast the vote, or you get the free burger.

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          But you would remove people who would prefer burger to participating in democracy from the equation.

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              because people who prefer short term profit don’t make smart long term decisions and elections are all about long term decisions.

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                I think any American of the age of majority should be able to vote easily and I don’t think there should be a burger purity test to be able to do so.

                But if they want a free mediocre burger after it should be their reward to contributing to the democratic process.

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                  Right, all those poor hungry people who are one imaginary burger away from dying to malnutrition. Good thing they have you on their side!

                  A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a straw man”.

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      If they gave out monopoly pieces and gave away $1m they would have the entire working poor who don’t vote participate.