How about … publishing the names and addresses of people who don’t vote? Nothing like a little shaming offensive to boost voter turnout, right? Well, in this case it’s complicated by the fact that it was a black newspaper, the Tennessee Tribune, that did the outing, and most of the non-voters they outed were black. You can imagine the uproar if the paper wasn’t a black paper and the voters were. But it seems it’s always more acceptable for a group to criticize itself from within than to be criticized from without.
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Well, that might help, if people care what other people think, and if you know people you care about read that particular paper…
I don’t vote, for many well-thought-out reasons, and I honestly wouldn’t care if someone plastered my name all over the front page of the local paper. I stand up for my choice to be able to vote or to choose to abstain.
Well, that might help, if people care what other people think, and if you know people you care about read that particular paper…
I don’t vote, for many well-thought-out reasons, and I honestly wouldn’t care if someone plastered my name all over the front page of the local paper. I stand up for my choice to be able to vote or to choose to abstain.
If you want to increase participation, how about having election day fall on a Saturday or Sunday?
That appears to work well in other countries to help most people vote without skipping work.
If you want to increase participation, how about having election day fall on a Saturday or Sunday?
That appears to work well in other countries to help most people vote without skipping work.
A friend argued recently that just as he has a right to keep secret whom he voted for, that right should also include whether or not he voted at all.
I do not know if I fully agree with his argument, but it does seem somewhat reasonable.
A friend argued recently that just as he has a right to keep secret whom he voted for, that right should also include whether or not he voted at all.
I do not know if I fully agree with his argument, but it does seem somewhat reasonable.
Just think of the problems that would occur if the newspaper accidently published the name(s) of someone who did, in fact, vote. A situation like that, once CNN picked up on it, would definitely lead to more public distrust in our voter system.
Just think of the problems that would occur if the newspaper accidently published the name(s) of someone who did, in fact, vote. A situation like that, once CNN picked up on it, would definitely lead to more public distrust in our voter system.