After all that has transpired in Ferguson, will residents vote?

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. So I will ask you quite plainly

why are you against something that would make it EASIER, not harder to do?

Things like Oregon's Motor Voter bill will register people automatically, with a 15 day opt out option. Oregon also does this by mail in ballot, EXCLUSIVELY, and have a higher voting average than any other jurisdiction in the U.S. Are you telling me that people in Oregon take it less seriously than you do because they can sit at home at night, fill in their ballot and put it in the mail? Incidentally, that also helps the USPS.

California is joining Oregon with the introduction of Assembly Bill 1461 as far as the motor voter bill part of it, I will not bother giving you links to my coverage, but the objective of this... assuming it survives committees and general voting in the Assembly, it will increase the number of voters in the state by 7 million. If they had the chance to send this ballot in though the mail, and they got it automatically, WHY THE HELL NOT? This is what modernizing elections and opening the ballot looks like.

I am also going to assume, sorry for that, that while you stated you are a single mother, you are still middle class. There are some attitudes that are just obvious, and this is one of them.

For the record, the OP was wrong. Voting was actually HIGHER than expected, per the LA Times On the other hand, the Daily Beast reports low turnout. So what is it? I am betting these two contradicting realities cannot be true at the same time.

The LA Times is an MSM paper with nothing at stake here. The Daily Beast can be a tad to the RW of things, and the games people play to suppress the vote are quite sophisticated.

But back to the question, why are you against making it easier? Just becuase you like to walk to the polls, so do we by the way, does not mean this is the best way to vote. There are improvements, and it seems to me some folks are dead set against those.

Edit to add this from the Christian Science Monitor regarding Oregon

Oregon is one of two states that employ a vote-by-mail only system. Voters receive an information pamphlet three weeks before the election, followed a few days later by their ballots. With an average voter turnout of 60.13 – 8.5 percentage points above the national average – the system is working for Oregonians.

Final edit, for clarity