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Comrades, the glorious world of Next Tuesday™ is upon us! Dear Leader wants to transform us yet again with mandatory voting.

Obama floats ‘transformative' idea of making it mandatory to vote in the U.S.

Since most people are members of our party or sympathize with us, this means we will have total control! Take that, rethugs! You will be the permanent minority party even though you hate minorities. This would allow Dear Leader or the Great Goracle permanent control over our glorious collective.

If you do not vote then you will be fined. It's really simple, Comrades. Don't buy ObamaCare and you will be fined. Don't vote and eventually don't vote for our party and you will be fined. The government gets more money to redistribute and and everyone is happy.

A note to the dead: We're counting on you. You are our greatest permanent constituency. You don't get a pass. Too cold to get up out of the grave? Bones creak too much? Your bones have turned to dust? Tough luck, get out and do your duty! If you don't, we'll confiscate your headstone in lieu of the fines! Better yet, we'll just take your property from your heirs even if it's several generations down the line.

This means we must create a glorious new bureaucracy to digitize every will and account for all property to determine who inherited what over the generations. We will be taking over Ancestry.com and nationalizing it. All genealogists and local historians will become federal employees and properly unionized with federal office space, expense accounts, benefits and retirement. Oh and each one needs a support staff of no less than 10 assistants.

See, Dear Leader said he was going to create a bunch of new jobs! We'll be sure we know the whereabouts of those couple of spoons you left to your fifth son, who, by the way, shouldn't have ever existed because creating too many kids means you contributed to climate change!

Died before 1776 and think you are excused because you weren't a citizen? Get over it! If citizenship doesn't matter for Dear Leader then it doesn't matter for you either! Yeah, all you people whose year of passing begins with the numbers 16 and reside in the glorious collective of Massachusetts, you WILL get up one day a year and cast your vote for our party! Obviously, you didn't bother to do that last year because your collective has a rethugikkkan governor! Defeat him in 2018 or face the fines!

Of course, if you reside in a cemetery and really don't want to vote, our party will be happy to cast a proxy vote in your name. We'll still fine you for the inconvenience of having to do that, however.

Gee commies, if you have to prove you voted that might just require some form of identification.

$.$. Halliburton wrote:Gee commies, if you have to prove you voted that might just require some form of identification.

Why go to all the bother? Why not simply log all people as voters at birth (or at entry into the country by whatever means) and use automatic voting databases to tally their votes for Democrats at the specified voting times?

All this thinking is unnecessary, comrades. The Party will cast your vote for you, your family, your friends, and all your relatives, living and dead, documented and undocumented, including all those anticipating undocumented status. Your reading of this message implies consent. See? That didn't hurt.

...but is 100% turnout, and 100% vote, even though this would include the dead, enough?
Is it not already the case that Barack Obama's urban operators were able to squeeze voter turnout well OVER 100% in many precincts? Comrades, surely there are intelligent life forms in our universe capable of induction into mandatory voting. It goes without saying that all life forms living or dead could be counted in the next election. This means googolplexian voter turnout and vote.

Soviet Mike Komsomolets wrote:...but is 100% turnout, and 100% vote, even though this would include the dead, enough?
Is it not already the case that Barack Obama's urban operators were able to squeeze voter turnout well OVER 100% in many precincts? Comrades, [highlight=#ffff00]surely there are intelligent life forms in our universe capable of induction into mandatory voting[/highlight]. It goes without saying that all life forms living or dead could be counted in the next election. This means googolplexian voter turnout and vote.

No, no, we cannot allow these "intelligent" life forms. Off to the Jiffy-Lobo with them!

The agit-prop dept needs to work on this. I don't have the tools or the time.


It should read

Voting never gets old

Barak Obama

Ballot to the Head

a People's Cube film

If you like your candidates, you can keep your candidates!

President Obama wants to require everyone to vote. I think this is a great idea. After all everyone's opinion matters. Let me guess, the IRS can handle the fines.

Kapitan Kangaroo Kourt wrote:The agit-prop dept needs to work on this. I don't have the tools or the time...

It should read

Voting never gets old

Barak Obama

Ballot to the Head

a People's Cube film

Konservative_Punk wrote:

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Kapitan Kangaroo Kourt wrote:The agit-prop dept needs to work on this. I don't have the tools or the time...

It should read

Voting never gets old

Barak Obama

Ballot to the Head

a People's Cube film

Perfect, comrade.

Deer Leader has, once again, made claims about another nation that he knows nothing about. Holiday Inn should use him for their advertisements.

So, let's just clarify what the election laws in Australia actually are.

It is required, by law, that everyone who has survived to the age of 18 register to vote. If you fail to register to vote, nothing happens. There is no penalty. Why? Well, the only legal way that the government can check if you have registered to vote is by looking at the electoral rolls and if you're not on them, you're essentially non-existent, as far as the Australian Electoral Commission is concerned. The government does not have the authority to check any other information it has about you against the electoral rolls.

If you have registered to vote, you are required, by law, to turn up on election day to a polling booth, with valid ID (Deer Leader doesn't mention that aspect of Australian electoral law), in the district where you are registered to vote and get your name checked off. This states to the AEC that you did, in fact, turn up to a polling booth. When you get your name checked off, the election official will hand you all relevant ballots.

You are required to place ballots in the ballot box but you are not required to make any choices on the ballot. You may, if you choose, cast a ballot that will not be counted because it either has no votes on it or it is impossible for an election official to decipher what you intend. This is an illegitimate ballot, also known as a "donkey" vote (which, in light of the mascot that the Democratic Party has chosen, is somewhat ironic to me).

If you cast a "donkey" vote, there is no penalty. You've already had your name checked.

If you fail to turn up and get your name checked off, a fine of $50.00 will be sent to the last recorded address on the electoral roll. If you don't pay that fine, nothing happens. Eventually, the AEC will decide that you no longer live there and your name will be deleted from the electoral roll.

So, whilst it is technically illegal to fail to register and fail to vote, there is no practical ability for the government to enforce the laws it has passed and there is no possible way that the government can actually force you to cast a legitimate vote even if you obey the law.

Australian electoral laws are the strongest encouragement that the government can institute to try to get Australians to perform their "civic duty". Strong encouragement is all they are. The government has very little recourse if the citizenry refuse to be encouraged.

This is one more example of Obama's knowledge being entirely superficial and seriously flawed.

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Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:
Komrade 'roo, I have shared your post to my tractor farm on the Facebook collective.

Very good, comrade.