VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote

Re:VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote by drewrv on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:31PM (#12457001)

Selecting for voters who are willing to navigate a bureaucracy and jump through arbitrary hoops to vote does not give you "informed" voters, just voters with a lot of time on their hands.

Also, who decides what circumstance is legitimate and what isn't? Why should some circumstances be accommodated but not others?

Every single time people have tried to restrict who "should" vote and who "shouldn't" the rules have been abused for the purposes of bigotry. Poll taxes, literacy tests, id requirements, etc.

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Re:VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote by wry_discontent on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:35PM (#12457033)

> Selecting for voters who are willing to navigate a bureaucracy and jump through arbitrary hoops to vote does not give you "informed" voters, just voters with a lot of time on their hands.

I agree with you in principle, but the vast majority of people I've met who don't vote are not just "too busy". They are usually just apathetic. They don't care about politics, they don't want to read and learn. I say we're better off without them voting.

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Re:VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote by rhallie11 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:41PM (#12457088)

I doubt any means of simplifying the registration process will ever be enough to make people who don't want to vote vote.

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Re:VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote by AndrewKemendo on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:55AM (#12462205)

Correct. I don't vote and I'm reasonably well informed. I sit on our city's economic development and planning board, and work with state legislators in our community so I'm aware of how the system works - or doesn't -irrespective of who is in office.

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