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    Exclamation NY - State assemblywoman proposes mandatory voting legislation

    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/poli...icle-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.
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    I know...ten bucks...not voting nearly hard enough.

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    who the what the ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by agitator View Post
    Only $10? -TheTexan
    Representation should be a commodity. "Pay to play" is pretty much rule number one in the playbook and Americans love sports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by agitator View Post
    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
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    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.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
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    She has the wrong idea. They should be paying people 10 bucks to vote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    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.
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    I new there would be a fine , Fines are the Dem Creed . It is the god they pray to.
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by seapilot View Post
    She has the wrong idea. They should be paying people 10 bucks to vote.
    #soros

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by seapilot View Post
    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.
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    This is getting silly.
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    It started silly.
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    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]
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    “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?
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