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Old Nov 19, 2007, 04:42 pm   #7 (permalink) (top)
brien
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Should people be voting if they are not politically informed?
Enfranchisement, and all of the accompanying rights and responsibilities, are not a matter of education. It is stricly a matter of citizenship. It has to be independent of any type of means test otherwise you can means test anyone out of the process.

A better reform would be to conduct elections on weekends, over a period of perhaps 2 days, to allow more people to vote rather than making them que up before or after work on a given Tuesday.

A better reform would be to have a free and fair ballot access.

A better reform would be to have free and open access to debates for ALL candidates, not merely those annointed by the establishment.


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