I want to expand on this more later tonight, but just so I don’t forget:
Why, if we have a very pronounced separation of church and state in this country, is my polling location tonight at a local church?
All the church is doing is opening it’s doors, and letting volunteers run everything. The only reason I know it is a church is that is what it is, nothing inside says so. Very clean spartan walls.
In this age of increasing socialism, “we must force you to do this, because it helps everyone” liberalism, and considering the fact that volunteer locations for polling booths are on the decline, why don’t we force homeowners to open their home or garage, on a lottery basis to hold an election in. The odds of it being any given home is very small, and this would only have to be done in neighborhoods where no one volunteered. Of course, it would lead to a decline in volunteers, and eventually it would just be a quantified, given activity.
But why not? If we say, there must be a polling location for every X number of voters, we can ensure that that no citizen has the excuse of saying: “it’s too far”. I had to drive to my polling booth today, to vote for two city council spots, the city treasure, and two city ballot measures. My one way distance was over a mile. (I’m trying not to mention the fact that there was a closer one, but I, and no on one my block was allowed to vote there. It was for people over a mile away from that. On this side of town, I was registered at the far north end of the voting area, and my polling booth was at the south end. On the voting area north of me, their station was at the south end too. Wacky. I’m trying to defeat that here)
I will hopefully build more on these ideas after the scout meeting tonight.
