Captain Obvious
03-09-2015, 04:11 PM
Since nobody posts in US Politics anymore...
I think we need to go back to competency testing for voting. Pass a competence test, re-take every 5 years or so and you can vote. And yeah, I know - it will never happen. The establishment thrives on idiocy.
Voters with little or no income or a significant portion of their income from entitlement programs should also be barred from voting.
The voting age should be 21 also.
In my humble, honest and generally 100% accurate opinion of course.
Besides, everyone knows the best way to get voters to vote is to pay them.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-holds-election-to-decide-what-to-do-about-low-turnout-and-no-one-shows-up-5416522
Low turnout was the top citywide issue on Tuesday's ballot, so it's fitting that almost nobody showed up. As of this morning, the city clerk pegged turnout at 8.6 percent, though that number will creep up as more ballots are counted. With any luck, the final figure will almost touch 11 percent.
L.A. elections are starting to resemble the meetings of a ham radio society, where the top issue on each month's agenda is how to attract new members to the ham radio society.
The latest solution is to move the election dates. The handful of people who did go to the polls on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to shift the city's elections to even years, consolidating them with state and federal contests. Charter Amendments 1 and 2 passed with more than 76 percent of the vote.
I think we need to go back to competency testing for voting. Pass a competence test, re-take every 5 years or so and you can vote. And yeah, I know - it will never happen. The establishment thrives on idiocy.
Voters with little or no income or a significant portion of their income from entitlement programs should also be barred from voting.
The voting age should be 21 also.
In my humble, honest and generally 100% accurate opinion of course.
Besides, everyone knows the best way to get voters to vote is to pay them.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-holds-election-to-decide-what-to-do-about-low-turnout-and-no-one-shows-up-5416522
Low turnout was the top citywide issue on Tuesday's ballot, so it's fitting that almost nobody showed up. As of this morning, the city clerk pegged turnout at 8.6 percent, though that number will creep up as more ballots are counted. With any luck, the final figure will almost touch 11 percent.
L.A. elections are starting to resemble the meetings of a ham radio society, where the top issue on each month's agenda is how to attract new members to the ham radio society.
The latest solution is to move the election dates. The handful of people who did go to the polls on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to shift the city's elections to even years, consolidating them with state and federal contests. Charter Amendments 1 and 2 passed with more than 76 percent of the vote.