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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m ok with not everyone voting.  If you can’t get your act together to vote, your vote isn’t worth much.  [/quote]

Irrelevant.  It doesn't matter whether or not they have their act together.  They still have the RIGHT TO VOTE.[/quote]

So what?  Nobody disagrees with that but what’s next, we send a driver to every voter’s home to collect their ballot? Do you think other countries have 24 hour voting or drive through voting or any of this other nonsense?  No, they treat their citizens like adults.  Only America infantalizes it’s people and treats them like helpless fools.[/quote]

What a ridiculous assertion. In other countries, it's common practice for citizens to be automatically enrolled to vote when they're eligible, instead of making people jump through an additional hoop. Some elections are entirely online! Many countries allow people to vote at [i]any[/i] polling station, not just the one they're eligible for, which increases flexibility and minimizes the problem of long lines routinely observed in the United States. Others make election days a national holiday, or hold them on weekends. None of this "infantalizes" (sic) these countries' citizens. It just reduces frictions to voting. Why Republicans view that as a bad thing is absolutely beyond me. That is, aside from the profoundly cynical Republicans who - probably correctly - see such initiatives as making it more difficult for them to win elections.

Since it seems like you're pretty ignorant about how the rest of the world works, you might want to consider doing some research to see if your priors are actually validated by facts before spewing nonsense. You'll save yourself the embarrassment, and save others the few minutes it takes for them to refute your easily-disproven claims. [/quote]

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