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shall receive a payment from the state government of $2,000. This is a strict-liability deal. (Meaning that innocent intent or human error on the part of the state is not a defense. No hard feelings... just pay the damn money.)

This proposed (by me) national law would have constitutional problems because I doubt Congress can mandate such a payment, but it's a fine general idea if implementable in some fashion.

If people want to buy elections at least raise the price (!)

The payment should not be so large as to be a envy-making windfall. You don't want folks to resent victims of disenfranchisment schemes. But it should be large enough to incentivize people to take the trouble to show they are still qualified voters.

And large enough to add up to enough in aggregate to get attention from independents when a party wastes state money by trying to purge voters. (Independents are said to dislike government wasting money.)

And large enough to guarantee that states err on the side of leaving people eligible. (Having dead people on the rolls of eligible voters is only a problem if they show up to vote... and in that zombie-apocalypse scenario I would probably let them vote whether they were on the rolls or not.)




Number 5629 on my list of worthwhile policies that will never happen.