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Originally Posted by SirSeymour
Part of the reason I believe this now is that I think making it a "right" for everyone who can register, is over 18 and not a convicted criminal has cheapened it to the point where it is no longer valued. This has led to our current low voter turn out. It is something of an excepted reality that things that are "free" to us are valued and cared for less than those we earn. I think it is time to make all citizens who wish to vote earn it in some form.
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i've heard the statistics for voter turn out in other democratic countries, and the put us to shame. but one of the factors in that may be that we hold our elections on a tuesday, while most other places do it on the weekend. if we changed that, we might have more people turning out and it won't seem so devalued.