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March 20, 2015
Dictator Obama Suggests Mandatory Voting for US Citizens
Obama Suggests Mandatory Voting for US Citizens
They say the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama wants to add one more: voting.
Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U.S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the influence of money in U.S. elections, Obama digressed into the topic of voting rights and said the U.S. should be making it easier for people to vote.
Just ask Australia, where citizens have no choice but to vote, the president said.
“If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Obama said, calling it “potentially transformative.” Not only that, Obama said, but universal voting would “counteract money more than anything.”
Disproportionately, Americans who skip the polls on Election Day are younger, lower-income and more likely to be immigrants or minorities, Obama said. “There’s a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls,” he said in a veiled reference to voter identification laws in a number of states.
Less than 37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterms, according to the United States Election Project. And a Pew Research Center study found that those avoiding the polls in 2014 tended to be younger, poorer, less educated and more racially diverse.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Do people even notice the creeping tyranny, in every aspect of life? I don’t think most people even realize that we are frogs in a pot of water being brought slowly to a boil....and maybe not so slowly.
Posted by Wild Thing at March 20, 2015 12:48 AM
Comments
And, of course, if you didn't vote, your local democrat community organizer will cast your ballot for you.
Posted by: BobF at March 20, 2015 10:37 AM
