Mandatory voting? What else should be made mandatory?

The White House was quick to walk back from Obama’s comments, saying he was more thinking out loud than proposing anything specific.

Josh Earnest:
“The president was not making a specific policy prescription for the United States,”

This trial balloon would require an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Does Obama even know how that is done?

Maybe he’s just going to float, stoned out of his gourd, through his last few months.

There are several questions that need to be addressed. Will the dead be required to vote in every election, even if they have no particular interest in a particular election?

Those who vote several times using different aliases at different polling stations, will they be required to maintain their different aliases and be required to vote in every election? This could prove to be an undue hardship for Democratic voters without transportation.

What percentage of voters may we assume lack the acuity to understand or comprehend the issues or parties involved and how will these voters be directed to vote so that a particular party may control this particular demographic or should they be allowed to vote with no comprehension of the process or issues?

We have three distinct groups of potential voters: literate, semi-literate, and illiterate. Will the Democrats presume control over the illiterate and semi-literate voters? What if some of these voters want to vote against the Democrats, will there be a means to help that particular voter?

These are not hypothetical questions. Since Obama can regulate through the EPA or any of the regulatory agencies he controls, we will soon be required to vote because one man, The Won, thinks we should all vote; especially, since he has lost a major demographic, the lucid people, for the Democrat Party. He desperately needs new voters, alive or dead, intelligent or stupid, he needs anyone who can pull the lever for the Democrat Party and he will soon be trying to get 16 year olds to vote. Yes, the impressionable ones his teachers’ unions have been training to be Leftists. Once they are trained to vote Democratic, what difference does their age make?

The guy who was bathing in questionable and unexplained campaign donations is now concerned about the power of money and how it influences American politics.

Please, can a Liberal explain how using the totalitarian technique of requiring everyone to vote will reduce the power money has on elections, especially the foreign money from oil-rich Arab nations, the money that flows in in the form of untraceable temporary credit cards.

@Skookum:

He desperately needs new voters, alive or dead, intelligent or stupid, he needs anyone who can pull the lever for the Democrat Party and he will soon be trying to get 16 year olds to vote.

He needs mostly the stupid. They have come through for him in the past.

Yes, I too wondered how mandatory voting would reduce the amount of money injected into campaigns. The left will always needs lots of campaign money because they have some many failures and scandals to lie their way out of.

If they really want to remove money from elections, they need to ban from voting, anyone who gets unearned government money as a benefit…. food stamps, section 8, cash welfare… and so on. They also need to make it illegal for a politician to ever be a lobbyist.

Imagine being imprisoned for not voting by executive fiat. Not so difficult, actually. not with this monster.

@Skook:

What happens if they become confused and pull the Republican lever?

They would probably give them a do over.

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Wisconsin Voter ID Law

This is a substantial victory for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who described the Supreme Court’s decision as “great news for Wisconsin voters,” because the voter ID law is “a common sense reform that protects the integrity of our voting process, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

The law provides free photo ID cards for voters who lack a suitable form of identification, but of course it was still described as somehow restricting the franchise by opponents, such as executive director Andrea Kaminski of the League of Women Voters: “The problem with our elections is that not enough people vote in them. The last thing we need is laws that erect barriers for people who have been good voters for decades.”

It’s not much of a “barrier” to any legal voter, but of course the dwindling opposition to the irresistible force of voter ID laws knows that. At this point, they’re just trying to milk a few quick talking points out of the situation before a popular, common-sense reform sweeps America from coast to coast.

It’s worth pondering the Cult of Democracy idea that “the problem with our elections is that not enough people vote in them,” or the implied solution that making it absurdly easy to vote is the answer, rather than motivating more citizens to learn about the issues and expend the minimal effort required to comply with a solid Information Age ballot system. That’s an academic discussion; on a practical level, a great majority of the American people simply see nothing wrong with asking for the same kind of identification that voters need to get on airplanes or purchase alcohol.

The voter ID argument is over – all that remains is to square away a few details, and ensure each new state law meets the standards approved by the Supreme Court in a landmark Indiana case, which required a few adjustments to Wisconsin’s law. The timing of a switch to voter ID is also important, since it’s not unreasonable to argue that changing the rules in the middle of an election is confusing, and elections last for a long time these days. The most convincing argument remaining against these laws is that they don’t do enough to block voter fraud, but that’s obviously not a discussion opponents have been eager to participate in.

Voter ID: Supreme Court Hands Scott Walker Another Win

Despite relentless lies-of-omission from our dishonest race-baiting media, voter ID laws are the rare 80/20 issue in America. By wide margins, Democrats and Republicans embrace laws requiring voters show a valid, state-issued ID in order to cast a vote. Even 51% of black voters support voter ID, compared to just 46% who disagree.

The media always casts the voter ID debate as a racial issue — conservatives attempting to keep black people away from the polls. The American people, including a majority of blacks, have not been swayed by the media’s propaganda. Voters instinctually understand that this is an issue of voter integrity, especially in a country so mismanaged by the federal government we currently have 6.5 million active Social Security numbers for people aged 112.

Democrats knew they were fighting a stupid, losing argument, which is why Obama and the Democrats are trying to subvert the election process by bringing in illegal aliens and giving them Social Security numbers and drivers licenses so as to give them ID that will be accepted by registers without ever questioning these alien’s eligibility to vote.

@Bill:

unless it is assumed that only democrats are too stupid to get some sort of valid ID.

Dimocrats have long argued that all dimocrats and especially Blacks are too stupid to figure out how to get a voter ID. Now the Supreme court has ruled that all should be treated equally.