Monday, November 5, 2012

Votes R (not) Us


The excerpt below is from an article about increasing the percentage of voters by law. The last presidential election was something like a 60 percent turnout.

The Case for Compulsory Voting  [The National Interest]

Jonathan Levine | November 2, 2012

Nevada offers an interesting solution: in 1975 .... Nevada became the only state in America to include a “none of these candidates” option alongside the major parties. And while it was a step in the right direction, the initiative was nonbinding and toothless. In the 1976 Republican Congressional primary, “none of these candidates” trounced its competitors, and yet, despite the abjectly clear will of the voters, the nomination went to the nearest runner-up ....

7 comments:

Kay said...

I'm thinking a lot more people will be voting this time. I'm on pins and needles, but I've already voted anyway.

Cloudia said...

Aloha from da neighborhood



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Kay said...

I don't know how I feel about compulsory voting. I think they should make mail-in ballots more available to all the states though. It was so much easier for us to just mail in our votes.

RONW said...

Whoops, your comments were in "comments moderation." Didn't notice that until now. Anyways, thank you Cloudia for mentioning that word verification was enabled, none of my doing. Kay, I guess you voted and your precinct didn't run outta paper ballots.

blournalist said...

Good idea. I just switched it off, too.

blournalist said...

...although I guess you still have "Comment Moderation" turned on.

RONW said...

blournalist- I disabled 'word verification' to spare people all that hassle. 'Moderation' must be different. Just checked but enabled it caught 3 spams. Those spams are on posts I did months ago, lol. I'll give the moderation OFF a trial run.