I said it on the radio earlier in the morning as well actually. lolOriginally Posted by yaas
I said it on the radio earlier in the morning as well actually. lolOriginally Posted by yaas
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Originally Posted by Tom_Turner
hahaha the only thing Markowitz does is speak at Junior High School graduations and greet people on the highway signs as they drive into brooklyn.
"I can't wait until tomorrow, cause I get better looking everyday"
--Joe Namath
*shakes head in disapproval*Originally Posted by Phil D.
lol
Originally Posted by GothamSpotter
It's great reading all this political debate, because it truly shows how much of a democracy we are and how much many of us care about this country. We can argue about who of two or more completely different people would make a better leader and better serve us, but at the end of the day, regardless of who wins, we come together as Americans.
It's sad that only 35% (a number mentioned earlier in the thread) of Americans exercise their right to vote. Just think of how different thing may be if 100% of people voted!
In any case, I voted about 3 weeks ago via Absentee Ballot.
Here's my question to you all. If we're trying to increase voting participation, why make people go to polls and vote? Why not just send them a ballot in the mail, or have them vote online. I guarantee you we'd see a huge jump in the number of voters, because all they'd have to do is open up a letter, mark their choices, seal the letter and drop it back in the mail, instead of having to go to a polling place and wait on line to vote...
I do understand that fraud and technology limitations currently are the biggest factors in why we don't do this, but we're getting to a point where almost anyone's identity can be verified online. So is there anything stopping us, from maybe 5, 10, 15 years down the road, going over to an online voting system? Do you think something like this would be accepted by the American people, and do you think they'd have trust in it? In an ideal world, it would be the perfect solution to increase voting numbers. But in the realistic world, would it work? Would certain political parties allow this to happen, or favor it?
Just some of my thoughts...
Online voting just presents way too much of a possibility for fraud. 15 year-old kids who can't even vote would know about online voting than half the people designing the software. Hackers around the US and the world would see it as a challenge to hack and rig elections, and they would most likely succeed. Instead of giving just the polling volunteers access, you're giving the world access. Anything is possible.
I saw one state gave an incentive by giving away $1Million dollars to a lucky voter. This might work in more states.
Anotherpossibility for a place like NYC, is to have anyone from any part of the state to be able to vote at any polling place. So instead of going to PS 193 in Brooklyn, I could vote at lunchtime in lower manhattan, using a closed-circuit computer, of course.
"I can't wait until tomorrow, cause I get better looking everyday"
--Joe Namath
Not only that but the GOP proved you don't have to carry CA or NY to win.Didn't Ronald Reagan win New York State?
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As you said, "Fraud" which exist even today, but, if you start mailing out voter ballots, the increase in voter fraud would simply increase...Originally Posted by USAF Pilot 07
If people are lazy to vote, they are lazy to vote.....
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Not only that, but, that is why the Electoral College exist today, if we went with the Popular vote, all you would have to do, is win California, throw in New York, & you are halfway there (a little exaggeration).Originally Posted by NIKV69
With the Electoral College, you are forcing the Presidential Canidates to pay attention to each of the 50 States.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually,
run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
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