Friday, November 4, 2016

Political Change


            Voting is a very simple thing you vote once and it’s free. Imagine you have to pay to vote and how that would impact the election. Then think about what it would be like if you could vote two times. This would change a lot of things in the political world. Politics already is already crazy; think about the state of America now that you have 2 votes. There are a lot of things that could heavily impact politics voting is one of the most significant factors.
            For starters making people pay to vote would discourage a lot of people from voting and would frankly make it impossible for poor people to vote. Currently if you don’t have a valid address you can’t really vote which is already an obstacle for the homeless to overcome if they want to perform their so-called “civic duty”. Charging a price for voting would initially eliminate communities whose income is shaky and frankly less people would be motivated to vote. The way that this would impact the campaign is that certain areas wouldn’t have rallies and many of the candidates would not visit some states. Strategies would completely change knowing that a certain demographic would not vote.
              If you could vote more than once I couldn’t imagine what the electoral votes would look like. Not to say that you could vote more than two times for the same candidate but you could vote for 2 people. All of a sudden swing states have such a big impact on the electoral map. They would probably have to cover more than just the two candidates because of the possibilities of the others getting more votes. I believe we could see a president that wasn’t apart of the democrats and the republicans.

2 comments:

  1. I could not agree more. Having the public pay to vote would change everything. the votes would be insignificant because everyone can vote as many times as they please as long as they pay for the vote. The poor and the homeless could be made out so they do not have to pay so their "civic duty" stays in tack with everyone else because that would only be fair that they can vote as well.

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  2. My view is if votes were for sale, it would likely cause a black market of vote purchasing that would result in those in financial need selling those votes and causing election upsets according to the highest bidder.

    Imagine wealthy elites creating vote liquidating events in which large numbers of people are persuaded to vote a certain way and then sell those votes to vested interests and therefore ensure the same people are elected to office over and over again.

    Anyway, that is an interesting idea. In fact, a relative of mine wrote a book about monetized voting in the United States. It was a sort of dystopia that was very cynical and dark.

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