It sure is. By mail they can sit at home or in the office without the trouble of getting off their butts and going to vote. A huge percentage of potential voters won't bother to get up and go vote because they are too lazy to get up now. My experience with people is that if you give them money they will follow you anywhere. At least they would have to do something for their bribes. We have plenty of crooks voting now thanks to the SEIU and ACORN on the street. Why give them another tool? Then they could vote once on the street and once via mail. Plus whatever votes they send in for Mickey Mouse. It's better for them to go to the polling places, show a valid ID and after they have registered to vote and their registration is verified, then they can vote. Plus the government would have to start paying postage for the return mail ballots or giving more illegal money to ACORN. It might be possible for criminals like Obama to stop siphoning money to these crooked organizations if it was mandatory to go vote like it was intended..

BHO would love to create mandatory voting and amend the Constitution by Executive order. He could have his cake and eat it too! Then we will have Civil War.

thanks for the laugh, so true

I have clues . . .

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The essence of the premise maker.

Both of us would be called a racist.

Please feel flattered by my imitation.
I'm stealing "Dimocrat" for future use.

I just had a vision of a certain grinning community organizer helping out a whole grown-up family of Hispanics in a voting booth.

I think it my personal duty to follow through with having that right.
But no one has a right to tell me that voting is my duty or else.

Writing George Washington would get you assassinated.

we should find out who writes this fools speeches. he is too stupid to think this stuff up himself but thinks anything that is bad for america is good and that has to be explained to him.

Oh, I agree. I'm being completely flippant because the premise behind the proposal is inherently ridiculous. ;)

Floating the one face down would be much more productive.

Australians are much more trusting of government than Americans. (Based on my experience while living there for several years.)

The ultimate in Big Government; mandate vote or else!!

Has it come to trigger finger?

Disregard the comment about "duty"
Disregard the comment about "duty". Reward is a different angle.

I couldn't say what I really wanted to without getting thrown off Galt's Gulch :C)

OR: piece of capital 'S' followed by a 'hit'

If Barry's for it, I'm against it.

Now that's transformative.

It's another form of Incrementalism from the Dimocrat party. First you get the people to grudgingly accept the coercion to vote, then it gets to be easier to get them to accept the coercion of who to vote for. Just bombard the populous for a decade with propaganda about how government knows best, and they'll behave like good little sheeple.

Despot comes to mind.

Of course. Mandatory voting includes a "voter assistant" to aid those who don't speak English, who have never voted before, or who are confused by multiple choices questions.

Toss in able to read the ballots in English only.

I won't want anything that made voting a duty. It's a right.

Since they ARE doing that, this is not a distinguishing characteristic between mail voting and booth voting. And the people out in the street would have to bring their forms in with them in order to get their bribe money. How many will do that? (I really don't know, but my experience with people indicates that if organization of any form is required in order to participate, then the amount of participation drops sharply.)

Jan