Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Some good ideas about voting

Today, Election Day in many states, the voter turnout will be light.  Even when we vote for president do seldom more than two-thirds of us vote.  Joe Nocera has some good ideas as to how we might increase voter turnout:

  • Vote on weekends, not during the week
  • Open primaries so that you could vote for anyone regardless of primary
  • Make redistricting non-partisan by establishing independent committees to define voting districts
  • Reward the small donor by matching their donations on a higher than 1 to 1 basis.

He also proposes term limits for the Supreme Court.  But I can't see how that would increase voter turnout.

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