Voting shouldn't be easy....

[AirTight]

With exceptions for older and physically challenged people, you should have to go to the polls. If it's important to you, you will go and stand in line. There's a better chance that the person that takes the time to go, is more likely to have looked up information on who there voting for. There's know since in making it easy for someone who had to be forced to vote for someone they don't know any information on or know's the issues.

Voting should not be difficult. Since voting day is not a national holiday, many people have to go to work on election day and the next day. They should not be forced to wait for hours. Mail in voting should be a option for everybody. There is absolutely no evidence that people who vote in person are more knowledgeable.

Mail in voting to me is for those who didn't care about voting in the first place. They likely have someone like a parent making them do it since they wouldn't get up and do it on there own. The parent says, fill this out, you don't have to go stand in line, I have your ballot here for you and I will tell you who to vote for. That voter isn't needed.

Your opinion is irrelevant. Voting isn't supposed to be difficult. Mail in voting is for those who are out of town, in care, who have jobs with hours such that they can't get to the polls, or who cannot leave the house for other reasons. It is also used by the military, by students to vote in their home districts, and by those who are working or temporarily living outside the country.

Republicans COULD put together programs and an effective economic agenda with something other than "cut taxes and crash the economy" that doesn't impoverish working Americans to the benefit of the wealthy. Instead, they're trying to stop people from voting for Democrats.

You're not realizing that if you get involved and run for office, you can change things. The democratic party just tells you to vote for them and they will give you what you need instead of you doing for yourself.

Where are Democrats getting all these candidates from if they’re not encouraging people to run. Republicans are running child molesters like Roy Moore and Matt Gaetz, and crazy people like Marjorie Taylor Green, and racists like Paul Gosar.

Where where are the honest, decent, sensible and sane Republican candidates? Where are the people with forward thinking ideas, and plans to help overcome the problems in America?

Bumper sticker slogans and the politics of hate didn’t get the job done.

You're not thinking about the state and local level. That's the area of government that's not talked about much and that's the area minorities need to be more involved in to make a difference.

 

[Blaine Sweeter]

The Founding Fathers had it right. Only the smartest should be allowed to vote.

Well, I guess that leaves you at home on election day.

 

[schmidlap]

With exceptions for older and physically challenged people, you should have to go to the polls.

Why? Voting is every American's right. Restricting that right by contriving obstacles that must be overcome is antithetical to participatory self-governance. Being forced to wait for prolonged periods in long lines and denied water is hardly democratic. Would demanding that a potential voter travel a vast distance to cast her ballot an hour before dawn insure a more valid election?

If it's important to you, you will go and stand in line.

Making voting a more onerous challenge as a test is ludicrous. Why not require that folks all hop up and down on one foot while flailing their arms like a chickenhawk while in line in line to attest to their seriousness? That should weed out the less-than-intense citizenry.

There's a better chance that the person that takes the time to go, is more likely to have looked up information on who there voting for. There's know since in making it easy for someone who had to be forced to vote for someone they don't know any information on or know's the issues.

Crackpots can be more fanatical about voting than stable Americans. No doubt about it.

How is respecting the will of the People incompatible with democracy?

As a host of states try to change their voting rules, most Americans say they'd prefer the voting process to be left alone — or made easier. Relatively few want it to be harder after an election that saw record turnout.​

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With the fight over voting attracting national attention, partisans say it's a high-stakes battle that affects their electoral fortunes. Republicans think Democrats will do better in elections if voting becomes easier. At the same time, Democrats think they'll suffer if it becomes harder to vote, and they believe many of their constituent groups, including Hispanic and Black Americans, would lose political power.​

Facilitating voting for the public benefits Democrats. Impeding voting benefits Republicans. Both parties should just honestly admit that.

 

[Resnic]

The Founding Fathers had it right. Only the smartest should be allowed to vote.

I dont think 18 year olds should be able to vote anymore, a while back a 18 year was more mature but now a days they are mostly immature, ignorant of the world and get all of their information from social media which leads to a lot of bad information. Voting age should be 21.

The unemployed shouldnt be allowed to vote. They do not contribute to society by working, they dont contribute to the country and state by paying taxes, and show they are lazy. They shouldnt be allowed to have a say in who is running the country.

People actively serving 25 years or more in prison should not be allowed to vote. They have shown they are not a a productive and functional part of society.

Illegals should never be allowed to ever vote. Immigrants shouldnt be allowed to vote for their first 5 years of becoming a citizen. They need to live in our society for a while and have atleast some idea of how it works before they are allowed to vote in it. Kids now have to wait 18 years to vote, a immigrant can wait 5.

Voting is a right. But you should be somewhat mature in age, you should be a employed functional part of society, you should be a citizen, you shouldnt be a hardcore criminal.

I know a small percent of people through unfortunate circumstances will not be allowed to vote but its for the greater good.

I dont know about being the smartest, not something you can just measure. But I definitely believe voting is a right you have to earn and that it needs hard stance guidelines.

 

[gmeyers1944]

Your opinion is irrelevant. Voting isn't supposed to be difficult. Mail in voting is for those who are out of town, in care, who have jobs with hours such that they can't get to the polls, or who cannot leave the house for other reasons. It is also used by the military, by students to vote in their home districts, and by those who are working or temporarily living outside the country.

Republicans COULD put together programs and an effective economic agenda with something other than "cut taxes and crash the economy" that doesn't impoverish working Americans to the benefit of the wealthy. Instead, they're trying to stop people from voting for Democrats.

Republicans are not motivated to "Cut taxes and crash the economy. Actually, cutting taxes stimulates the economy.

 

[Dragonlady]

Republicans are not motivated to "Cut taxes and crash the economy. Actually, cutting taxes stimulates the economy.

Tax cuts for working people stimulate the economy, if given when you have a budget surplus. Tax cuts which aren't paid for, take revenue out of the economy. They do not create jobs and they do not pay for themselves.

Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Document NavigationTax Cuts and DeficitsMyth 1:Tax Cuts “Pay for Themselves.”Myth 2: Tax cuts boosted revenues and lowered deficits between 2005 and 2007.Tax Cuts and the EconomyMyth 3: The economy has grown strongly over the past several years because of the tax cutsMyth 4: The Capital Gains...

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This is an article from 2008.