Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by debracleaver on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:50PM (#11717291)

Jim, shenanigans is the word that comes to mind for me as well. I've yet to meet this mythical "apathetic American" that people talk about, but I've met tons of people who were prevented from voting by administrative incompetence (at best) and what appeared to be deliberate attempts to prevent citizens from casting ballots.

Here's an fun example: 7 out of 9 of the states that were prohibited from changing their voting laws under the VRA of 1965 immediately passed restrictive laws once the VRA was gutted.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by hackuser on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:47PM (#11718575)

> 7 out of 9 of the states that were prohibited from changing their voting laws under the VRA of 1965 immediately passed restrictive laws once the VRA was gutted.

Here's a question that I'm not sure you can answer publicly: Ideally, support for voting should be non-partisan, and everyone seems to want to operate on that principle (including Vote.org).

But what if it is a partisan issue? What if the most important problem is that one party truly opposes voter turnout? Personally, I think that's the case, and I think our failure to address the real problem, for whatever idealistic reasons, is the primary reason we make so little progress.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by lotharbot on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:33PM (#11717652)

I've met plenty of people who don't vote for reasons of apathy. Especially in midterms.

I also have one friend who always casts a blank ballot, as a matter o principle.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:08PM (#11717438)

>I've yet to meet this mythical "apathetic American" that people talk about

Well now you have.

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Re:Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 10... by jeremyt on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:00PM (#11717854)

You've never met an American apathetic about voting? Are you from a foreign country?

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