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Voting and gerrymandering are the metagame. We should pay people to vote, that would help turnout (up to about as much as it would ever get).
by wyldfire 6y ago
Voting and gerrymandering are the metagame.
We should pay people to vote, that would help turnout (up to about as much as it would ever get).
- worker767424 6y agoControversial view: no, we shouldn't. Have you see how stupid people are? How easily they're manipulated? How little they understand about how government works? Any you want politicians pandering to these people? If it weren't to the stigma of "literacy" tests and how the were historically used, I'd be fully in favor of "licensing" voters.
- papeda 6y agoPaying people to vote is pretty out there. I think we should at least put election day on a weekend. Spread it over both days, even. This feels to me like a relatively easy small step that would really help make voting easier in a way that doesn't open itself up to voter fraud arguments (as far as I know).
- wyldfire 6y ago> Spread it over both days, even. Early voting (in several states already?) does a good job of this IMO.
- malandrew 6y agoThe literacy test that I took wasn't even controversial. Back in middle school my civics teacher actually had us take one of these literacy tests. While very few people in the class passed the test (I think just myself and one other person), anyone actually familiar with the text of the US Constitution should be able to pass it. Sadly almost no one in our class was familiar with the US Constitution. I'm totally okay with a test where the only document you need to study from is the US Constitution.
- ransom1538 6y ago"We should pay people to vote" Reminds of me of 3rd grade when kids would make a christmas tree out of their scantron tests. That is what we need -- randomness added to voting.