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Anti Federalist
03-23-2017, 09:09 PM
Don't see what the problem is.

The state can force you to do and buy all sorts of things you don't want.

Why should voting be any different?

Uncle Joe would be proud.


New Yorkers who don’t vote would pay $10 fine under assemblywoman's bill

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-yorkers-don-vote-pay-10-proposed-bill-article-1.3001499

BY Glenn Blain follow

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, March 17, 2017, 6:11 PM

ALBANY — A state lawmaker from Manhattan wants to make it costly for New Yorkers not to vote.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Democrat, introduced legislation this week that would establish “compulsory voting” in the state and punish those who don’t vote with a $10 fine.

“Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation and transform the political arena by making politicians more reflective of the constituents that elected them,” Glick wrote in a memo submitted with the bill.

Under Glick’s bill, any eligible voter who fails to vote would be hit with the $10 fine unless they have a “valid excuse” why they couldn’t do so. The legislation does not specify what constitutes a valid excuse.

agitator
03-23-2017, 09:11 PM
Only $10? -TheTexan

phill4paul
03-23-2017, 09:13 PM
TheTexan.

Anti Federalist
03-23-2017, 09:15 PM
I know...ten bucks...not voting nearly hard enough.

Dark_Horse_Rider
03-23-2017, 09:15 PM
who the what the ?

phill4paul
03-23-2017, 09:16 PM
Only $10? -TheTexan

Representation should be a commodity. "Pay to play" is pretty much rule number one in the playbook and Americans love sports.

TheTexan
03-23-2017, 09:19 PM
Only $10? -TheTexan

I'm guessing most people wouldn't even bother to pay it.

Which would be great.

Because then we could pile on the late fees, turn that $10 into $2000

TheTexan
03-23-2017, 09:20 PM
I think its wonderful what this woman is doing. Voting is an honor, and a privilege that every American should enjoy. And be forced to do.

seapilot
03-23-2017, 09:22 PM
She has the wrong idea. They should be paying people 10 bucks to vote.

r3volution 3.0
03-23-2017, 09:38 PM
https://i.imgur.com/KiEchvD.png

phill4paul
03-23-2017, 09:49 PM
I'm guessing most people wouldn't even bother to pay it.

Which would be great.

Because then we could pile on the late fees, turn that $10 into $2000

If your not voting your are breaking the law and everything you make is a criminal enterprise. Asset forfeiture. Why exactly aren't you running? Because somewhere you would be a shoe-in.

TheTexan
03-23-2017, 10:05 PM
Why exactly aren't you running?

I'm pretty good at voting but I don't know if I want to do it professionally. I'm worried that if I turn voting into a job it might take the magic out of it.

oyarde
03-23-2017, 10:23 PM
I new there would be a fine , Fines are the Dem Creed . It is the god they pray to.

Carlybee
03-24-2017, 05:36 AM
She has the wrong idea. They should be paying people 10 bucks to vote.

#soros

Weston White
03-24-2017, 06:43 AM
Ah thank you for posting this, lately I have been forgetting why NY sucks so good.

She is talking the wrong approach on this. States need to pass a bill that requires a quorum of qualified voters as a portion of that states eligible voters (regardless if they are registered or not) for any legislation to pass otherwise it fails--regardless of how many voters voted in its favor. Additionally, there needs to be submission limits on how many times a similar or like bill that has prior failed may be submitted within a specific period of time--bad bills goto heels. Also, there needs to be absolute prohibitions on slipping unrelated bodies of law within other bills--prevent legislative tuck and hides, and Easter egging.

nobody's_hero
03-24-2017, 06:51 AM
She has the wrong idea. They should be paying people 10 bucks to vote.

I think they've already figured out that foodstamps and subsidized housing = votes.

AZJoe
03-24-2017, 06:53 AM
Seeing as how there are 120K+ people per NY assembly district, each assembly vote represents 120K votes for the districts.
So each vote the assembly women has missed she should bay her constituents $1.2 million.

[for each vote she does make she should probably her her constituents the same]

AZJoe
03-24-2017, 06:55 AM
Actually, considering it is voting that got them into such a mess, perhaps there should be a fine for each vote cast. Makes far more sense than Glick's proposal.

otherone
03-24-2017, 07:14 AM
“Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation and transform the political arena by making politicians more reflective of the constituents that elected them,”

HUH?
What if the guy I voted for wasn't elected?