Mr Khan said:
badgenome said:
sethnintendo said:
I could just see the outcry on that. I believe the NAACP would compare it to Jim Crow laws even if it was a test that a 12th grader should be able to pass. If you can't solve basic math, science, English, etc questions then you probably don't need to be voting. How about if you failed on obtaining a GED then you can't vote. If you can't vote if you committed a felony then you shouldn't be able to vote if you are completely stupid.
I think they should at least take the party line voting out of the electronic machines (where you can just select vote for all Republicans or Democrats). That is USA laziness at its best and shows how most people vote (look into the actual candidates). Sure it wouldn't stop the pure party line voting but at least you'll make the person click on every single vote. A national holiday on election day which most democracies have would probably improve voter turn out.
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Yeah, of course they would. If they think it's racist to need a government ID to participate in a government election, there's no way they'd stand for anything like what I proposed.
I don't think I've seen a mechanism that lets you just pick to vote a straight ticket like that, but if you mean that the ballot should not indicate what party a candidate represents, I've been in favor of that for a long time.
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It's not racist, it's classist. It's a fairly open and shut case, even if state courts seem to be supporting it.
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I think it's a mix of both. But the intent is not racist. Just the means is racist. IE, it's not "let's prevent _____ from voting because they're _____" It's "let's prevent _____ from voting because they tend to vote Democrat". It's all about party affiliation, with race/class merely being the common identifier.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/08/19/fight-over-poll-hours-isnt-just-political.html
”I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine,” said Doug Preisse, chairman of the county Republican Party and elections board member who voted against weekend hours, in an email to The Dispatch. “Let’s be fair and reasonable.”
