I could point out...again...that the requirements for doing it right are not that onerous. There are picture IDs for those who don't drive. Fees are nominal. The charge in Pennsylvania is ten bucks, or the price of a little over two packs of cigarettes.
The types of ID required for voting or other such things are very broad in many cases. Bills with your name and address on them. Something, anything proving that you actually have the right to vote.
I'm sorry, but for 99.99 percent of the population, this stuff isn't that hard, and it isn't that expensive. If you want the short answer to your question, yes, you should pay to vote. If not money, than maybe a little time or inconvenience. If that can't be managed, you just don't want it badly enough. Again, we're not talking poverty. We're talking initiative.
Please spare me the example of the woman who has sixteen kids, all four limbs missing, Snidely demanding the mortgage, and has a vulture come down every day to eat her liver. I know that some people have it especially rough. That doesn't change the need to keep voting legitimate.
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More like ten.
The whole thread (34 posts)
- Liberals vs Democracy
- "But voting is so HARD!"
- Oh, from a discussion that calls McCain a "Republicrat" and the Democratic governor a socialist.
- Proposition 200
- Me and my birth certificate
- $20.00
- In California it is a headache to get a state ID card.
- "Voting is a right for U.S. citizens" - funny, I always thought it wa a privilege... (n/t)
- re: Proposition 200
- Proposition 200