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Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:18:54 PM   
Arturas


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Status: offline 		Just now, all hosts on the MSNBC show "The Cycle", proposed that voting be "mandated", that voting be mandatory by law for all U.S. citizens.
I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:23:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		What would be the harm in requiring all citizens to performing their most sacred obligation to this country?

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:29:30 PM   
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What would be the harm in requiring all citizens to performing their most sacred obligation to this country?


Sacred obligation? Is this a Nation or a religion?

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:30:51 PM   
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What would be the harm in requiring all citizens to performing their most sacred obligation to this country?


Our right to vote is sacred. It is also an obligation.



Sacred obligation? Is this a Nation or a religion?


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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:32:15 PM   
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What would be the harm in requiring all citizens to performing their most sacred obligation to this country?


Besides the fact that it violates the first, fifth and fourteenth ammendments - I can't think of a reason.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:33:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe people who refuse to vote should shut up about the national heritage of independence and pay us some arrears on that tea tax?

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:45:50 PM   
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What would be the harm in requiring all citizens to performing their most sacred obligation to this country?


Our right to vote is sacred. It is also an obligation.



Sacred obligation? Is this a Nation or a religion?




Neither sacred nor an obligation. The default choice for abstention ~ none of the above ~ is never on the ballot. A "sacred duty" in a free democracy is an absurdity. It is coersion. You might wish to rethink it.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:51:09 PM   
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I am all for it if I can phone it in.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 12:52:47 PM   
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I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?


Not suprised that toe tapping and not paying your bills in the Minneapolis Airport Bathroom is the focus of the right and the nazi republican.

Thats what I say

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:05:30 PM   
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Just now, all hosts on the MSNBC show "The Cycle", proposed that voting be "mandated", that voting be mandatory by law for all U.S. citizens.
I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?

I didnt see said show.. but,.. if voting were mandatory for all US citizens,.. wtf would the penalty be for not voting? They cant build jails fast enough as it is..



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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:09:59 PM   
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Just now, all hosts on the MSNBC show "The Cycle", proposed that voting be "mandated", that voting be mandatory by law for all U.S. citizens.
I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?

I say you watch too much television.




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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:25:51 PM   
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Should all American citizens who are
elgible to vote be required to by law?

No.
It would be a ratfuck a costly ratfuck
to even try.

You have a right to vote and you have
a right not vote.

It wouldn't make for a better informed
populace or more engaged citizens.
People cast their votes for all sorts of
dumb asses reasons that wouldn't
stop it would just bring more he seems
like a guy voters into the pool and
there's enough of them already.





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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:34:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is it any wonder why members of a political party that does not want anyone to be able to distinguish citizens and non-citizens are presenting this idea in an election year that may lose them the Presidency?

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:45:23 PM   
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Its just not any why.  We are for a literacy test, which would be bad for teabaggers and neo-cons, they'd have to dissolve the party.

But thanks for the ignorant lies from the right.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:45:26 PM   
Winterapple


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Status: offline 		If it was presumed liberals on MSNBC making this
suggestion and if what you are suggesting
was true wouldn't they be shooting
themselves in the foot?

Which party do you imagine would
benefit the most from the draconian
measures a mandate like this would
need for it to be implemented?


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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:45:27 PM   
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(Though you do talk illegal immigrant real purty...)

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:48:15 PM   
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Is it any why members of a political party that does not want anyone to be able to distinguish citizens and non-citizens are presenting this idea in an election year that may lose them the Presidency?

Good lord. If only they could mandate intelligence.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:49:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		If they're gonna mandate we vote, I think it should also be mandated that we have a decent fucking choice.

Last time we had 2 capable candidates (screw that, ONE capable candidate) was Dole vs Clinton.

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 1:51:30 PM   
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Just now, all hosts on the MSNBC show "The Cycle", proposed that voting be "mandated", that voting be mandatory by law for all U.S. citizens.
I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?



Only if there is a NONE OF THE ABOVE box to check.

Voting is kinda like a restaurant menu at the only restaurant in town. You'll order (vote) for what you like or will tolerate (lesser of two evils).

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RE: Should voting be MANDATED? - 6/27/2012 2:45:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Arturas
Just now, all hosts on the MSNBC show "The Cycle", proposed that voting be "mandated", that voting be mandatory by law for all U.S. citizens.
I'm am not surprised. Mandates are the focus of the Left and socialism.
What say you?

Only if there is a NONE OF THE ABOVE box to check.

Voting is kinda like a restaurant menu at the only restaurant in town. You'll order (vote) for what you like or will tolerate (lesser of two evils).


Voting is your civil duty as a US Citizen. PERIOD! If you dont like it, maybe you dont need the perks that go with being a US Citizen?

Would be nice to have some system that shows who actually voted and who didnt. I have no problem with someone voting against the canidate that I voted in favor of. I do have a problem with someone that makes up an excuse for not voting, THEN, bitchs for the next so many years until the next election that 'this' or 'that' is not to their liking. I wish such individuals would just be quiet; as they were given a chance to speak their minds with their vote and FAILED!

I look at voting for a president like a job hiring. Because THAT is what it is. Should be the optimistic view that the best person gets the job.

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