If your vote didn’t count or matter, they wouldn’t try making it harder to do so. And this is a step to block making voting easier for everyone in Michigan.
Vote 🔵🔵🔵
Is Trump scared of veteran votes?
Dude just got shot. Vets are good with guns. This checks out to me.
Seems like all the more reason not to deny them the vote
I mean I was just making a joke. In truth, the GOP wants to limit and restrict voting access as much as possible because statistically it is those that would vote against them that are affected when voting opportunities are restricted. Trump doesn’t want just anybody to be able to vote. The fewer people able to actually vote, the better the outcome for the Republican party.
How about, and work with me on this: 1. Every citizen over 18 y.o. is automatically registered to vote. 2. DItch 1st past the post elections and instead have some form of ranked choice voting. I know, so radical, but that’s my solution.
You forgot mandatory voting.
I like the idea on the surface, but no, I don’t want to be forced to vote for a few reasons:
- A lack of voter engagement is it’s own outcome of a vote.
- Freedom of speech means being able to refuse to speak, and voting is one of the most powerful forms of speech most people have.
- I’m not a fan of the government forcing me to do something I might not believe in.
- There are many people who don’t want to vote for trump but refuse to vote for Democrat and if forced might hold their nose and vote trump.
Making election day a Federal holiday and guaranteeing everyone has the option to vote would be more effective and have a better outcome.
Edit: Several replies are basically saying the same thing: you can turn in an empty ballot. But the exact same thing can be accomplished much easier by staying at home. You can’t force people to go somewhere, or even mail in a ballot… they have a hard enough time getting people to do the census. Also, a candidate such as trump would refuse the results of any election they lost that didn’t have 100% turnout, especially if the margin of loss is less than the percentage that didn’t vote.
Again, I do like the spirit of the idea, but in order to make it work it would take more effort than it is worth since staying home accomplishes the same thing as a blank ballot.
I wouldn’t mind a default vote option.
Like when I hand in a ballot, my vote is exactly as I submit, to include abstentions.
But if I don’t turn in a ballot for any election I’m eligible to vote in, my vote just defaults to a solid down-ballot of the party I’m registered as, or following a custom party ranking to auto-fill ranked choice ballots.
A “None of the above” option would resolve most of those issues.
If “None of the above” wins, a snap election is called a short time later (three months?), and no candidate who ran in that election is allowed to run in the snap election.
Can vote null or neither
You know you can turn in a ballot without filling it out, right? There’s your no-vote.
Optional, but your tax returns get confiscated if you don’t vote.
This would be huge
Nah optional is good but at least make it a holiday so everyone has the option to vote. Many don’t because they’re working all day and the nearest voting center is two hours away because Republicans closed down as many voting centers as they possibly could and waiting in line to vote takes hours.
Honestly, they’re real shit people constantly trying to stop people from voting. Republicans hate it when people vote.
optional voting
Republicans hate when people vote and try to avoid having people vote
The lines are a problem that can be dealt with. I fail to see why optional voting is considered ideal given the second quote.
No no, just make non-votes into a vote of no confidence. No ballot means “none of the above/fuck off”
If the voter participation rate is ever lower than 50% they have to redo the election.
And get rid of the stupid electoral college!
Trump campaign: “[Whitmer] undermines the integrity of elections by increasing the opportunity for individuals to register to vote even though they are ineligible to do so”
???
There is a myth strewn about by Republicans that Democrats encourage non-citizens to vote. There is absolutely no evidence of any coordinated campaign to do this, but of you ask most Republicans they insist it is true. So they equate any voter registration campaign by Democrats to “illegals voting in droves”.
You know you’re popular when you try to restrict how many people can say whether they like you.
I wonder how his veteran running mate feels about it.
