Re: Trumps Golden Dome Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion

In article <pbbp7kp0o8eot5hpevpu5b1dkiioc2ioeq@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 14:38:19 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>

No, 1/3 the electorate didn't vote at all.  So really, about 25%
of americans actually voted for the orange clown.

 
So are you arguing for the Australian system of mandatory voting?

He may not be arguing for it but i might.  Too many people will be
affected by elections to let any of them stand aside.  Politics in the USA
are no fun but a Citizen's first duty it to stay informed and vote for
what you believe in as often as possible.

>
All I can say is "Amen!" - and not just in the USA either. I have
always been amazed that the voter turnout level in the US is almost
always amongst the lowest in both NATO and the "Anglosphere"
>
[(In 2016 we were vacationing in Britain and purely by accident
happened to be there in the two weeks before the Brexit referendum -
wow! I was told by locals that campaign banners on ships on the Thames
were NOT common in most British elections but were very definitely
present in force during the Brexit vote)]
>
As a Canadian we have separate elections for each level of government
(e.g. national, provincial, local) and at least in the first two the
turnout is fairly high. You even had big lines in 2021 during COVID
though at that election our voting lines were longer as we were
standing much further apart than usual!

Turnout in the last Ontario election was kind of crap, and it can't
have helped that it was in the middle of winter and 90% of the voters
did not receive their Voter Id Cards. VICs are misnamed: they can
help ID a voter but what they are really for is to let the voter
know where their advanced poll is and where their voting day poll
is. This info can be had online... if the voter thinks to look,
but many do not.

The issue with the VICs was supposedly a combination of backlog from
a postal strike, lack of time to mail them (it was a super-short
election), and for some reason the VICs jammed the mail sorting
machines. I've never heard of the last one happening. Many voters
thought it was part of an American-style deliberate effort to suppress
the vote and as I was the guy they first encountered, I got to hear
that _a lot_. I don't know if it was, beyond the time issue.

I did have one rather aggressive, easily angered voter who was not
aware the provincial election, the federal election, and the Liberal
Party of Canada election were three different things. That was a
conversation up there with the time a patron yelled at me for a very
long time because my theatre was in the wrong building.
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