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duckmaster
Sep 13, 2004
Mr and Mrs Duck go and stay in a nice hotel.

One night they call room service for some condoms as things are heating up.

The guy arrives and says "do you want me to put it on your bill"

Mr Duck says "what kind of pervert do you think I am?!

QUACK QUACK

Rookersh posted:

I think more states should look at Minnesota.

You can register same day, there are voting booths set up in schools/everywhere so you can vote after class, you can email in your vote, etc etc.

Guess what, Minnesota averages 75% ( The country average is 40% last I checked ) voter turnout. It can easily reach up to 85-90% voter turnout for Presidential elections. Minnesotans, including young adults vote.

Young people don't not vote because they don't care. They don't vote because they can't. They don't vote because they have to work that day, and when you work retail there aren't enough people to cover you leaving just so you can go vote. They don't vote because they can't lose the $50 they'd make going to work that day if they hope to eat that month. They don't vote because millennials are the least mobile generation, and having to bus to a voting booth is hard to justify. They don't vote because most of them work two jobs, and figuring out how to vote in that is near impossible. They don't vote because giving up 4-5 hours of their day waiting in line is a sacrifice they can't give.

The Elderly are stable voters because none of this effects them. If you are retired, you can go to vote whenever you feel like it. Waiting in line is fine, it's a civic duty and it's not like there's anything else you need to do. Elderly people drive, so getting to a voting booth is easy, etc etc.

The solution isn't to take the vote away from the Elderly. It's to make voting easier for younger generations, and to encourage higher voter turnout.

In the UK you can vote by post or by proxy, which means you nominate a person to vote on your behalf. All they need is your name and address and your nomination a week or so in advance. If you forget to vote by post you can take your postal ballot along on the day and it will be recorded there and then, and if you're able to get there before your proxy then you vote first and they're not allowed to vote for you again.

Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm which is for 15 hours. People are only allowed to work for up to 13.5 hours in a day so you still have 1.5 hours to vote if you didn't bother getting a postal vote or nominating a proxy. A proxy can vote for up to three people if nominated (plus themselves).

The law in the UK allows any person to take "a reasonable time off work" to vote on an election day (admittedly this has never been tested in court).

On a more unofficial level, if you are unable to vote due to distance then whichever political party you intend to vote for will be overjoyed to send a car out for you (and for free!). And it's a secret ballot so even if they can't just phone another and get them to take you.

Plenty of options.

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