Approximately 90M registered voters did not vote in the 2024 election...Australia is one country

TyroneIrish 25782 posts Joined: Oct 8, 2020

Posted 1:15 am on Dec 8, 2024

that has 'Compulsory Voting'...and in 2015, President Obama encouraged it here...

The attached Harvard Law Review article addresses this issue, both Pro and Con. IMO, given that citizenship is a highly regarded benefit, it should incur a responsibility to participate in the process that drives our Representative Democracy?

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Link: https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/compulsory-votings-american-history/

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Approximately 90M registered voters did not vote in the 2024 election...Australia is one countryLink TyroneIrish 1:15am · 12/8/24
- Those 90M are wise people, refused to waste their valuable time on dirty politics/clown shows which Eli 2:06pm · 12/8/24
  - Much better to have dictators tell them what to do, right Chicom killer? You are a boil on the arse Frank L 2:27pm · 12/8/24
    - Look in the mirror, hypocrite. D undemocratically arranged an unelected puppy and asked you to vote Eli 3:14pm · 12/8/24
      - Oh for God’s sake you moron, I was free not to vote for their nominee and wouldn’t have if the other Frank L 3:32pm · 12/8/24
        
        You're free not to vote for? LOL. Keep fooling yourself. Keep this delusional thinking to yourself. Eli 4:21pm · 12/8/24
        
        As usual, your word salad makes as little sense as you lord and master’s does. Run along.NT Frank L 4:27pm · 12/8/24
- Again, that number speaks to who and what we are as a society and why we get the leaders we deserve.NT Frank L 10:35am · 12/8/24
  - Sounds like a call to Action...NT TyroneIrish 12:08pm · 12/8/24
    - It’s really just what it is. Orange is only a demagogue accelerator. He reflects what and who we are Frank L 12:15pm · 12/8/24
- Authoritarianism. NedoftheHill 1:57am · 12/8/24
  - CoVid exposed what type of 1930s German a lot of people would be.NT iairishcheeks 11:15am · 12/8/24
    - Your moronity knows no limits.NT Frank L 11:31am · 12/8/24
  - Some agree with that...some don't...here are the Pro's and Con's, per the HLR article... TyroneIrish 2:23am · 12/8/24
    - There are no pros in forcing people to vote MarkHarman 8:44am · 12/8/24
      - Under the heading "Freedom is Not Free" there is the belief that to have true Freedom, we must have TyroneIrish 11:51am · 12/8/24
      - Tyrone knows the laziest voters support more handouts, so forcing them to vote... NedoftheHill 10:31am · 12/8/24
        
        Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house, Ned...re: "Laziness"...the MAGA community TyroneIrish 12:06pm · 12/8/24
        
        You wouldn't be posting on this issue if you thought it would help the GOP. NedoftheHill 8:48pm · 12/8/24
    - I gave my thoughts. Aggression & coercion are wrong. Forced voting makes for an unhealthy democracy.NT NedoftheHill 2:29am · 12/8/24
- I believe only those that pay income taxes or property tax should be allowed to vote. Shadow_of_the_Dome 1:38am · 12/8/24
  - You would not let an unemployed veteran living in VA hospital vote? conorlarkin 8:26am · 12/8/24
  - Conceptually then, you agree?...as the Harvard Law Review mentions, there are many 'fine points' to TyroneIrish 2:02am · 12/8/24
    - In your view, "allowed to vote" equals "forced to vote"? WTF???NT NedoftheHill 2:02am · 12/8/24
      - Some say you are an attorney...so, I assume you can read. Check out what the Harvard Law Review TyroneIrish 2:27am · 12/8/24
        
        No one says you can respond on your own. You essentially said 1 = 2. Why did you say that? NedoftheHill 2:31am · 12/8/24
  - Agreed. NedoftheHill 2:01am · 12/8/24

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