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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by panic on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:02PM (#16172428)
> It also reduces actually researching candidates to a waste of time. If I take the time to carefully research 5 candidates and their stance on all of the issues, weigh them carefully, maybe even attend a campaign event to get clarification...and then another guy walks up without having any idea what he's voting for that votes for the other guy...his vote counts exactly the same except that he's only there because he has to be.

I mean, that's democracy. The point isn't a perfect system where everyone is making completely informed decisions. The goal is to keep public officials accountable to the people and their interests, however uninformed.

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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by brightball on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:08PM (#16172486)
Is the point forcing people to participate in something against their will?

Diluting the voter pool so much that the people paying enough attention to hold a candidate accountable can't actually have an impact?

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