ANyone have any realistic ideas on how to increase voter turnout

[DAVOUT]

Cut their number of posts by 10%.

[Shogun Gunner]

@ Davout

Threaten with jail time? That probably works in the penal colony of Australia since its mandatory there.

[Thucydides]

Make a voter lottery. Everyone who votes gets entered into it (you'd have to set it up so there's no benefit for voting twice, like a cross-check on name and social security number or something like that). Since so many people like to play the lotto I doubt they'd miss the opportunity to win for free. You could even take a cut off of political contributions to pay for the winnings.

[Whoha]

move the election day to april 15th. or move tax day to november 3rd.

[KrazyHorse]

Get political parties who are differentiable from each other.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
make it so those who dont vote in the next election can't vote in the one after that.

in 8 years you'd have 95% turnout.

[Sava]

Make taxes double for people who don't vote. Also, deny non-voters any sort of public service.

[germanos]

Get rid of the obligation to register as a voter in the first place. Just send all of the US citizens a notice they can vote on day X.

It works here

[MrFun]

I love oxymoronic thread titles.

"REALISTIC ideas for increasing voter turnout"

[Lefty Scaevola]

Have a reliable voter ID/national ID system (good for all sorts of things, like reducing voter fraud) and tax thoses who fail to vote to pay for election costs.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Have a reliable voter ID/national ID system (good for all sorts of things, like reducing voter fraud) and tax thoses who fail to vote to pay for election costs.

u lefties are hilarious. no inane, silly or superfluous invasion of freedom is ever out of bounds.

[st_swithin]

Put a subliminal message to vote in the Paris Hilton tv show.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by yavoon


u lefties are hilarious. no inane, silly or superfluous invasion of freedom is ever out of bounds.

lol pwnd!!!11!!

[Sarxis]

A small tax cut for voters who show? Nothing extreme, but just enough that it'd be worthwhile?

But really, do we want people who don't care actually voting?

[Peacemaker]

Since its the same people who don't vote in every election we simply excute all those who don't vote and then we would have 100% turn out. Puls the added advantage of getting rid of all those idiots.