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really? you can't imagine how buying booze is any different from voting?
by distrill 5y ago
really? you can't imagine how buying booze is any different from voting?
- abakker 5y agoI can't tell if you are suggesting that the standards for alcohol be higher than for voting or not? Because currently they are.
- distrill 5y agothey're not higher. the federal government doesn't even care how old you are, let alone where you live or whether you are who you say you are. those standards are all locally mandated and locally enforced.
- schumpeter 5y agoSort of... The federal government passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act[1], showing they did care. Although they don't directly enforce drinking age mins, the carrot and the stick approach was used. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...
- distrill 5y agoi'm aware of this and you're talking past the point i made. federal restrictions are stricter on voting than they are on alcohol.
- abakker 5y agoThey require proof to buy alcohol. They do not to vote. the consequences are not the only part of "requirements".
- distrill 5y agowho does? the federal government does not.
- abakker 5y agoI think this is a frame of reference issue. The I buy beer at whole foods, someone checks my ID and won't sell it to me if I don't have one. If I vote via mail in ballot, I sign my name on a sheet of paper that arrives to an unsecured mailbox. Whatever the law that applies, as an end user, beer seems to be a more restricted product.
- kansface 5y agoI'd wager voting (federal elections) kill way more people than Americans who die downstream of booze. Its just a question of locality, really.