Posted: 30 June 2017 at 8:56am | IP Logged | 12
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Proper planning skills is not a prerequisite skill for the right to vote. ---------------------------- I guess that's what separates the 'right' to vote from the 'willingness' to vote. it's one thing to have a right, and another to properly exercise it. The entire voting process needs to be overhauled, starting with the basic awareness of the process with civics classes in school, to the registration process to the actual mechanisms of how votes are cast. If someone is motivated or compelled to exercise their right to vote, it shouldn't be that difficult to go to their nearest polling place and cast a ballot. There should be simple 'database' of some sort that can verify age/residency/citizenship. There should be enough polling facilities/machines to handle capacity of voters that utilize any particular polling place (so that we don't hear about crazy lines or wait-times). Absentee voting systems should be streamlined for those who are away from their designated polling place. From my experience locally helping people get registered, it's always seemed pretty straight-forward, without all the horror stories that I've heard from people in large cities. Lines to vote? I think the longest line I was ever in was only a couple of minutes this last November, and only because I hit theafter-work/dinner-rush around 5:30 in my town. The biggest issues I've ever had to deal with at a local level is with the transient military population and those who otherwise move around frequently, and even then, they were quick fixes (again, for those who were proactive about exercising their rights). Whenever I hear the horror stories, my first thought is usually along the lines of "who the hell is the local commissioner of elections who let it get that screwed up?"
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