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Monday, January 05, 2004

An Informal Poll: Do You Vote?

So I’m in a bit of a conversation about voting habits in the US with Don of Vertical Hold in the comment thread of my post about the Democratic Underground quotes. He said:

    Some of the newer democracies have a nice little law that says if an election fails to draw 50% of the populace, then it is null and void.

    Personally, I think we could use something like that. That, and a Friday voting day that doubles as a federal holiday.

My response: Do you really think that if election day was made a federal holiday that people would be more inclined to actually vote? I don’t.

Truth is the people who are inclined to vote will take the time to go vote even if it’s a little inconvenient. Those who don’t vote today, won’t vote tomorrow just because they have the day off. Especially if it’s a Friday - they’ll head out of town for the long weekend.

It’s more a problem of apathy really.

So, I ask you, good readers. If you don’t vote now and election day were changed to a federal holiday, would you be more inclined to vote?

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