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LittleDiva
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$10 fine for not voting
Did anyone read the article in the daily news that they are proposing a bill in ny to fine you $10 if you don't vote! I seriously can not see that ever passing. But seriously, when are they going to stop wasting time on nonsense like this!!!
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Posted 3/20/17 2:35 PM  |
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ElizaRags35
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$10 fine for not voting
I kinda like the idea. Voter turnout in this country is abysmal.
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| Posted 3/20/17 3:09 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: $10 fine for not voting
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-yorkers-don-vote-pay-10-proposed-bill-article-1.3001499
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.
Any fines collected would be used to improve the electoral process, the memo stated.
Glick’s bill drew prompt scorn from Senate Elections Committee Chairman Fred Akshar (R-Binghamton), who gave it little chance of ever being enacted.
“Last time I checked, this was the United States of America and people have the right to vote or not to vote,” Akshar said.
Akshar said Glick’s bill represented a “regressive policy that would hurt the poor and those on fixed incomes.”
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Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the New York State League of Women Voters, was also critical of the bill.
“I doubt that we would support penalizing people who don't vote,” Bartoletti said. “Often, it is a silent protest on their part to not vote.”
Glick did not respond to a request for comment.
In the memo submitted with the bill, Glick argued her bill would combat New York’s continuing problems with low voter turnout. She noted that Australia has a similar compulsory voting system and has seen turnouts of 90% or more.
It's never going to pass, but it's frustrating that they have to spend time dealing with this bill, when there are so many things that actually need to be done...
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| Posted 3/20/17 3:19 PM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: $10 fine for not voting
That's ridiculous. Fining people for voting isn't going to force anyone to make an informed decision. Many people don't vote because they just don't care about politics. You can't force people to care.
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| Posted 3/20/17 3:35 PM |
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Pumpkin1
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$10 fine for not voting
It will never pass, it's a poll tax which is unconstitutional.
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| Posted 3/20/17 4:14 PM |
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ElizaRags35
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Re: $10 fine for not voting
Posted by Pumpkin1
It will never pass, it's a poll tax which is unconstitutional.
Would it be? It's only charged if you don't vote. You don't have to pay it in order to vote.
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| Posted 3/20/17 4:29 PM |
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Katareen
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Re: $10 fine for not voting
Posted by eroxgirl
That's ridiculous. Fining people for voting isn't going to force anyone to make an informed decision. Many people don't vote because they just don't care about politics. You can't force people to care.
Yes, people will go in and just blindly vote for anyone to not be charged a fee
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| Posted 3/20/17 4:41 PM |
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MandJZ
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Re: $10 fine for not voting
Posted by Katareen
Posted by eroxgirl
That's ridiculous. Fining people for voting isn't going to force anyone to make an informed decision. Many people don't vote because they just don't care about politics. You can't force people to care.
Yes, people will go in and just blindly vote for anyone to not be charged a fee
I wrote a paper on this as part of my thesis for my Poli Sci degree.
Research actually shows in countries with mandatory voting (like Australia) that HAVING to vote under threat of some penalty makes people more informed. Because they know they HAVE to go vote anyways, they take the time to do more research.
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| Posted 3/20/17 7:12 PM |
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