Not based on reasonable consideration of the consequences

Mandatory Voting?

By Guest Column Virginia Sparks (Bio and Archives)  Monday, June 25, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us

Mandatory voting is an idea being floated by one of Team Obama’s minions Peter Orszag. Great, if it isn’t enough that one’s vote can be cancelled by the dead or illegal, now we can add the ill informed and ignorant. Not to mention the cost of implementing and enforcing the law.

How will that work? Will we drive around with buses loading up the infirm, the homeless, the addicts, etc? What about penalties and enforcement?

I guess the idea would help solve one of the President’s stated problems. It would add more people to the public service rolls. And it would hand the President another block of voters.
Do we really want to base an election on clueless people who are only voting because it is mandated?

I should hope not.

Both times the Constitution was amended - once to give blacks a vote and again to give women a vote - the wording was “shall not be denied the right to vote” not “must vote”.

This is a another idea obviously considered to get the President reelected. It is not based on reasonable consideration of the consequences.

Virginia Sparks
Rotonda West, FL