Title: President Obama Supports Mandatory Voting, And He’s Wrong To Do So
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President Obama Supports Mandatory Voting, And He’s Wrong To Do So
President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He's wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional.
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President Obama Supports Mandatory Voting, And He’s Wrong To Do So
President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He's wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional. Doug Mataconis · Thursday, March 19, 2015 · 85 comments
Yesterday during a speech in Cleveland, President Obama suggested that the solution to America’s problems lied in forcing every American to vote whether they wanted to or not: (CNN) The president whose major policy achievement is mandatory health insurance thinks maybe voting should be mandatory, too. Asked how to offset the influence of big money in politics, President Barack Obama suggested it’s time to make voting a requirement. “Other countries have mandatory voting,” Obama said Wednesday in Cleveland, where he spoke about the importance of middle class economics, and was asked about the issue during a town hall. “It would be transformative if everybody voted — that would counteract money more than anything,” he said, adding it was the first time he had shared the idea publicly. The clout of millionaires and billionaires in campaign funding has been enormous, and many claim the uber wealthy have undue leverage in politics. “The people who tend not to vote are young, they’re lower income, they’re skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups,” Obama said. “ There’s a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls.”