> URGENT ACTION TO FORCE RECOUNT IN 34 STATES, GAO INVESTIGATES
8 November 2004, 20:40
Wow! Where to begin? Let’s just take your points one by one.
We need to: 1. Make it illegal NOT to vote, $1,000.00 fine unless you are hospitaslized.
a. This would really be nice for the poor among us as it would scare them into abandoning their children outside the voting areas and cast any vote just to avoid losing 2 months of assistance to pay the fine!
b. Who gets the money from the fines? Do we reward a government unable to administer fair voting by giving it a made-to-order account to pillage for more defrauding of the people?
just wondering here...
2. Make it impossible to cheat.
This one makes a great idea trivial by acting as though this is really legislatible. Try offering a fool-proof method and I will bet you it takes less than 24 hours for someone to defeat your fool-proof idea. Better to legislate minimum effectiveness standards BEFORE any new voting methodology can be adopted.
3. Make it a life sentence to intimidate, mis-direct, lie to, or otherwise attempt to block any citizen’s right to vote. Included in the life sentence is the permanent loss of the offender’s right to vote.
OMG! Let’s just add to the already overburdened economy by suplementing current prison populations with politically motivated vandals. All we need is integrity police forcing the upright to subsidize the costs of imprisoning these offenders. Better yet, subsidize future elections and current prison populations by forcing these people to pay an extra 10% in taxes to be split between research and development of more secure means of voting and the rising cost of prisons and the cost to society of housing and feeding their inmates.
4. Make the entire election week time off work unless you are a hospital, utility, fire, or election worker.
Okay, now you’re just being lazy. How does losing 2% of the GNP because of work stoppage help the American people decide on a President? And why are you picking on the emergency workers? These people have to lose their ability to vote because your lazy A_S broke a nail voting and you need medical attention? Get real. As Bill Engvall likes to say, "Here’s your sign."
5. Require the media to give equal air time to each candidate for office at each level for free for the two months preceeding the election in return for the right to do business in this country.
Finally! The FCC licenses these media bozos in the first place, so let’s just include some public service in their contracts. On this point I whole-heartedly agree with you, even though we may have to give some consideration to limiting the amount of time allowed to each candidate and the offices for which these time apportionments are available. Needs work, but I like the direction you are taking here.
6. Eliminate all requirements for a candidate running for office to be on the ballots other than age, citizenship, and not be a felon currently serving their sentence. (When you’ve served your time you can then run in the next election.)
And I thought you were beginning to have good ideas... Oh well, at least give me the consideration to not have to spend 10 hours in a voting booth scouring the lists for my candidate because every crackpot in America is listed.
I am a voting independent in the strictest sense, in that I give my vote based on relevance, voting history of the candidate, and positions that I agree with on key issues. I hope for the best and don’t count on my candidates being most popular, trusting that our system is getting better with each fresh examination and review and that it is at least better than any other method I know of anywhere else in the world. Keep improving and refining the system, but remember to be thankful we are free while we are doing it.
And if you got this far reading my response, thanks for your time. Here’s my one suggestion, though it is hardly original: amend the U.S.Constitution to either, (a) eliminate the electoral college altogether and let the popular vote tallies count as final, period, or (b) make the electoral awards in each state proportional to the number of popular votes recorded in that state. It is not a perfect idea, but it seems to have some merit to me. Any other ideas out there?
Wow! Where to begin? Let’s just take your points one by one.
We need to: 1. Make it illegal NOT to vote, $1,000.00 fine unless you are hospitaslized.
a. This would really be nice for the poor among us as it would scare them into abandoning their children outside the voting areas and cast any vote just to avoid losing 2 months of assistance to pay the fine!
b. Who gets the money from the fines? Do we reward a government unable to administer fair voting by giving it a made-to-order account to pillage for more defrauding of the people?
just wondering here...
2. Make it impossible to cheat.
This one makes a great idea trivial by acting as though this is really legislatible. Try offering a fool-proof method and I will bet you it takes less than 24 hours for someone to defeat your fool-proof idea. Better to legislate minimum effectiveness standards BEFORE any new voting methodology can be adopted.
3. Make it a life sentence to intimidate, mis-direct, lie to, or otherwise attempt to block any citizen’s right to vote. Included in the life sentence is the permanent loss of the offender’s right to vote.
OMG! Let’s just add to the already overburdened economy by suplementing current prison populations with politically motivated vandals. All we need is integrity police forcing the upright to subsidize the costs of imprisoning these offenders. Better yet, subsidize future elections and current prison populations by forcing these people to pay an extra 10% in taxes to be split between research and development of more secure means of voting and the rising cost of prisons and the cost to society of housing and feeding their inmates.
4. Make the entire election week time off work unless you are a hospital, utility, fire, or election worker.
Okay, now you’re just being lazy. How does losing 2% of the GNP because of work stoppage help the American people decide on a President? And why are you picking on the emergency workers? These people have to lose their ability to vote because your lazy A_S broke a nail voting and you need medical attention? Get real. As Bill Engvall likes to say, "Here’s your sign."
5. Require the media to give equal air time to each candidate for office at each level for free for the two months preceeding the election in return for the right to do business in this country.
Finally! The FCC licenses these media bozos in the first place, so let’s just include some public service in their contracts. On this point I whole-heartedly agree with you, even though we may have to give some consideration to limiting the amount of time allowed to each candidate and the offices for which these time apportionments are available. Needs work, but I like the direction you are taking here.
6. Eliminate all requirements for a candidate running for office to be on the ballots other than age, citizenship, and not be a felon currently serving their sentence. (When you’ve served your time you can then run in the next election.)
And I thought you were beginning to have good ideas... Oh well, at least give me the consideration to not have to spend 10 hours in a voting booth scouring the lists for my candidate because every crackpot in America is listed.
I am a voting independent in the strictest sense, in that I give my vote based on relevance, voting history of the candidate, and positions that I agree with on key issues. I hope for the best and don’t count on my candidates being most popular, trusting that our system is getting better with each fresh examination and review and that it is at least better than any other method I know of anywhere else in the world. Keep improving and refining the system, but remember to be thankful we are free while we are doing it.
And if you got this far reading my response, thanks for your time. Here’s my one suggestion, though it is hardly original: amend the U.S.Constitution to either, (a) eliminate the electoral college altogether and let the popular vote tallies count as final, period, or (b) make the electoral awards in each state proportional to the number of popular votes recorded in that state. It is not a perfect idea, but it seems to have some merit to me. Any other ideas out there?