All the more reason why voting rights should not be granted to every citizen by default.
The problem is, I haven’t seen a way to implement such a system that would not be easily corrupted and abused. It would be great if we could get the bottom 30% of these dipshits out of the government though.
While solutions like STV instead of FPTP make perfect sense, I fear you’re underestimating the stupidity with which people forced to vote would cast their votes (eg crossing the first name they see or whatever).
In the context of the beacon of democracy, the US of A, the easiest way to sharply increase turnout would be to make the Election Day free for more people (for example by holding them during weekends), but I am afraid the current system is deliberately designed to disenfranchise those who can’t afford to take time off work
Increasing voter turnout is important but people have to do it for the right reasons. Otherwise, it’s going to be the same popularity contest as currently, just with a different flavor
Yeah, I can’t argue with that, the issues go far deeper than a bit of reform will mend, there’s a disease of entitled stupidity at the core of all this
All the more reason why voting rights should not be granted to every citizen by default.
The problem is, I haven’t seen a way to implement such a system that would not be easily corrupted and abused. It would be great if we could get the bottom 30% of these dipshits out of the government though.
I think the solution isn’t reducing the amount of voters, but making the vote manditory, along with replacing fptp with proportional representation.
That or abolish the federal government and disband the union, the states can then vote on which neighbours to band together with in the fallout of it.
While solutions like STV instead of FPTP make perfect sense, I fear you’re underestimating the stupidity with which people forced to vote would cast their votes (eg crossing the first name they see or whatever).
In the context of the beacon of democracy, the US of A, the easiest way to sharply increase turnout would be to make the Election Day free for more people (for example by holding them during weekends), but I am afraid the current system is deliberately designed to disenfranchise those who can’t afford to take time off work
Increasing voter turnout is important but people have to do it for the right reasons. Otherwise, it’s going to be the same popularity contest as currently, just with a different flavor
Yeah, I can’t argue with that, the issues go far deeper than a bit of reform will mend, there’s a disease of entitled stupidity at the core of all this
Voting is only one of the crucial checks protecting democracy, unfortunately most of the others have been compromised too.