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Bravo SecretMethod. I could not agree more.
I think too many people vote. I am astonished to hear from people who vote based entirely on a few sound bites they hear on the news the week before an election. One woman in my office votes the way her preacher tells her. Several years ago I asked her if she had seen an article in the paper. Her response was, "Oh, I don't read the paper." Frankly, that frightens me.
I would like to see people meet some threshold in order to be able to vote. Maybe they should prove they have read at least two editions of a newspaper in the previous 6 months. They should have at least a basic knowledge of our system of government and the way the voting process works. (I don't mean the punch cards or computers, but rather the way the electoral college works.) For the last time people, the popular vote does not now, nor has it ever, determine the winner. If you don't like it, fine. Get involved and work for a constitutional ammendment to change the rules, but don't whine because we follow the rules.
In Heinlein's Starship Troopers, voting was restricted to citizens. In order to become a citizen, you had to serve in the military or someother alternative service.
As an aside to those who want "anyone but Bush," that kind of negative motivation has been highly unsuccessful in recent elections.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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