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Election Reform

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4. IMO, you have to start somewhere. And keep hammering away at it

Reply to truebluegreen (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 08:22 PM

Nov 2014

Like Forbes' Flat Tax initiative.

The bottom line would be whether or not voters would want themselves forced into a binding constitutional amendment of their own doing.

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Poll tax: Incentivizing civic participation in elections [View all] ffr Nov 2014 OP

Why not just have Federal requirement that ALL elections are Vote-by-Mail? 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #1

While true, it doesn't carry the same financial reward/sting to it. ffr Nov 2014 #2

cool dat ~nt~ 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #5

Only problem is, the opposition wants fewer people to vote, not more. nt truebluegreen Nov 2014 #3

IMO, you have to start somewhere. And keep hammering away at it ffr Nov 2014 #4