New York Assemblywoman Wants to Fine Non-Voters
“Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation."
“Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation."
Under investigation:: use and placement of candidate write-in stamps, electioneering inside the polling place, illegal voter assistance and individuals writing on posted sample ballots.
"I thought there had to be some kind of mistake," said his ex-wife.
The Democrat-controlled Senate and Assembly passed the bill in a party line vote.
Targets include Michigan, New Hampshire, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico.
A similar law was struck down in 2014.
Lists of aliens disqualified from jury duty were compared to voting records over a three-year period.
(March 27, 2013) Mandatory voter registration (MVR), previously termed “universal” [...]
It would subject Colorado elections to the same types of bad (and illegal) behavior that the secret ballot—first adopted in Australia in 1856—was intended to stop.
"This bill would undoubtedly result in the disenfranchisement of qualified eligible Virginian voters."