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Retrograde

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23. Vote by mail is available to all California voters

Reply to angryvet (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 06:28 PM

Mar 2015

and has been for over a decade. No questions asked, no reasons needed - just fill in the handy back page of the sample ballot that is sent to every registered voter for every election, send it back to the registrar whose address is on it and BAM! you too can be a permanent mail voter, and get a ballot mailed to you four weeks before election day. I love it.

And yet we still have low voter participation.

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How California Could Boost Voter Turnout By Millions - ThinkProgress [View all] WillyT Mar 2015 OP

This should be done across the country. How is it that being selected for jury duty is mandatory but BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #1

Because it's not right to force people to exercise a right n/t SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #3

Then change the wording. Make it a civil DUTY. You know? Just like being forced to sit on a jury. nt BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #7

Change the wording of the Constitution? SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #9

Where in the Constitution does it mandate jury duty? That's right. It doesn't. Yet the moment you BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #10

Addendum... BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #11

Voting is a Constitutional right SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #13

Can you point out to me where in the Constitution it states that voting is a Constitutional Right? BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #14

I don't think you want to go down the road of only acknowledging enumerated rights SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #15

This may surprise you, but there is no right to vote enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #16

OK, playing your game, are you saying that unless a right is written in the Constitution SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #17

The U.S. Supreme Court is a "wannabe internet Constitional lawyer"? Um, no. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #18

Sorry, I think you're wrong SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #21

Nope. But you are. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #22

And again, you avoid the question SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #24

I've presented the facts. You haven't. And I didn't know it was a requirement that we answer BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #25

You're right, you don't have to answer any questions SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #28

I've never said such a thing. That's what YOU make of it, and that's why I've ignored your BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #31

automatically registering people to vote is an awesome idea and not unconstitutional CreekDog Mar 2015 #19

According to SOTOP, it's totally unconstitional. He knows he's wrong. He's BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #26

It's not unconstitutional to force someone to register SickOfTheOnePct Mar 2015 #29

Yeah. I know. You didn't appear to know, judging from your response to my BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #32

2014 midterms, CA turnout 42%. Oregon turnout 69.3% and we thought that was low.... Bluenorthwest Mar 2015 #2

Oregon Old Codger Mar 2015 #4

That high? It was less than 30% in my county Retrograde Mar 2015 #8

You still have to get them to the polls angryvet Mar 2015 #5

Knock Down One Obstacle At A Time... WillyT Mar 2015 #6

California *does* have permanent vote by mail in every county, but not exclusively so. It's still BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #12

California does have vote by mail CreekDog Mar 2015 #20

Me, too. eom BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #27

Vote by mail is available to all California voters Retrograde Mar 2015 #23

I don't see this as being a big help ripcord Mar 2015 #30

Ifd they were truly serious about adding more voters they would Bandit Mar 2015 #33