B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 06, 2017

And look what it got you

Also embraced by quite a few ineligibles.

And wholeheartedly embraced by people who aren’t smart enough to figure out how to work the voting booth in the first place!

Or practically all Australians. :)

(Probably because it’s a crime to not vote. :) ).

They should only let convicted felons vote, no matter what we do we keep electing crooks!

Oh c’mon… not B.C. too!

Another 4 years of crying and moaning or ranting and canting? What a dreary forecast.

For Heaven’s sake!! Take a pill and chill. Let’s just enjoy the comics. They’re the one bright beginning to most days.

And sometimes by dead people and non-citizens.

I’ve often said… we elect with a minority of voters every time. Think about it (and the politicians count on that).

Our town actually had a 79% voter turn out this election. Pretty impressive.

Who was it tweeted that he would launch mighty investigations into “voter fraud” had he not won?

Iirc turnout is about 65% here in the UK.

In ANY election, The people who bitch and moan about the results the most, are the people who didn’t vote.

It’s deplorable that only 1/2 of US citizens vote. And we wonder why we get such iffy candidates.

And of those who do choose to vote, they are mostly misinformed. The media doesn’t help, and unless you really struggle to get information on local candidates, you know nothing about them.

Yep, Aussies, that’s just what we want. Uninformed people FORCED to go to the polls and vote for Prezzy McPresident.

Dave Barry nailed 2000 perfectly. He said the problem with the ballots wasn’t the design, where you had to follow an arrow from the candidate to the hole to punch, it was expecting people who drive in Florida to know what ARROWS mean.

Oh for crying out loud!

And millions of non-eligible non-citizens…

If a majority of those who vote are idiots then only idiots are nominated and elected. Ref: the presidential election where we had two of the worst idiots of all time running for president.

Not a “civic right.” A civic RESPONSIBILITY . . . !!!!!

The voter turnouts for Presidential elections in both France and Germany are over NINETY percent…! What’s wrong with US that THEY’VE long since figured out..??

In the U.S., 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls during the 2016 election.

That’s absolutely true…and what a shame it is. I bet a lot of the people complaining about Trump didn’t bother to cast a vote.

The right to refuse to vote is as strong a right as the right to vote.

Cerabooge said,

@Tony Fort

“Well, this toon is not political in the crazy way that Americans think of “political”. It’s merely highlighting the, IMO, shameful situation regarding voting.”

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“I do think, however, that if voting were made mandatory, every ballot should have a None Of The Above option.”

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I wasn’t going to mention it today, but I consider Freedom of Speech to include the freedom to NOT speak.

Anyhoo:

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The power to elect should include the power to REJECT.

People complain Hillary received more popular votes than President Trump but lost. Far more votes either didn’t go for either of them or maybe DID go for either of them. We don’t measure that intent, don’t look for it, allow the people to tell us.

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Every registered voter should be a potential YES vote whether they vote or not, silence taken as consent.

Let every voter actually vote FOR any candidate he/she/it considers preferable.

Best to just vote FOR one, but more would be allowed, the vote would not be thrown out for over-voting.

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Let every voter vote AGAINST any candidate or candidates considered unacceptable.

Any candidate receiving a majority AGAINST would be considered rejected.

Of the remaining candidates, the ones receiving the most FOR votes would be elected.

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In most elections the major candidates would still have enough YES votes to be elected if they just got the majority of FOR and YES votes.

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In those extremely unlikely cases where major parties offered people so unacceptable to the American people that a majority of the electorate said AGAINST, they would be rejected and a third party candidate would be elected or a new election would be held with those rejected not considered for that election.

(They could

(They could try again next time.)

Mourdac said,

“It’s deplorable that only 1/2 of US citizens vote. And we wonder why we get such iffy candidates.”

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Not really.

Bad when 42% are considered deplorable for choosing to not vote for Donald or Hillary and half those who voted for Trump are labeled deplorable by Hillary. (Not all of those who voted for him, but still half.)

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If a doctor focuses on doctoring rather than letting patients die while he learns the ins and outs of Hillary and Donald, including the fact that neither is 100% trustworthy, how can his decision to not cast an ignorant or lesser-of-two-very-evils be faulted?

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Same for others. Also, my wife’s niece qualifies as mentally retarded. Should you fault her for deciding to herself she doesn’t understand enough to vote?