Tuesday, February 2, 2016

U.S. RANKS 31st OF TOP 34 DEVELOPED NATIONS IN VOTER TURNOUT

THAT FEWER THAN 200,000 PEOPLE VOTED IN THE IOWA "CAUCUS" YESTERDAY PROMPTED THIS POST.
BILLARY AND BERNIE BOTH GOT A LOUSY 700 OR SO VOTES EACH.
WOW, CAPTURE THE MAGIC OF THAT, NO?

IOWA HAD 2,087,884 REGISTERED VOTERS AS OF DECEMBER, 2015.

IOWANS CAN REGISTER TO VOTE ONLINE THROUGH THEIR DMV!

76.6% OF IOWA'S
3,107,126 PEOPLE ARE OF VOTING AGE.

ALL ACROSS AMERICA,THE SAD STATE OF VOTING VOTERS IS MUCH THE SAME AS IN IOWA, MINUS ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION IN TOO MANY STATES.

OF THE 34 NATIONS CLASSIFIED AS THE MOST ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED, ONLY CHILE, JAPAN AND SWITZERLAND RANK LOWER THAN AMERICA IN GETTING PEOPLE TO THE VOTING BOOTH.

HOW EMBARRASSING!

IN 2014, AMERICA SAW THE LOWEST NUMBER  OF VOTERS ACTUALLY VOTE SINCE WORLD WAR TWO
.
"Just 36.3 percent of eligible voters cast votes — the worst turnout in 72 years!"


THERE ARE MORE VOTER STATS AT <THIS SITE> THAN ANY SANE, HEALTHY PERSON COULD EVER WITHSTAND SEEING.

IF YOU THINK YOUR HEART CAN TAKE THE STRAIN OF IT ALL, THE GRIM REALITY, THE HORROR, GO CHECK IT OUT SOMETIMES. 
PUTS STEPHEN KING NOVELS TO SHAME!

LOGIC DICTATES: If the United States really wants to boost turnout numbers, it could always make voting mandatory.

[THE GOP WOULD RATHER GNAW OFF ITS OWN LEG THAN SEE THIS HAPPEN, EH?]


It's worked well for turnout figures in other countries such as Belgium (No. 1 on the list), Turkey (No. 2) and Australia (No. 5).

Other OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development- deal with the spelling, fellow Americans) countries with compulsory voting are Greece (No. 12), Mexico (No. 18), and Luxembourg (No. 26), while France (No. 13) has compulsory voting for its Senate races only, according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

THERE IS A CHART FOR THIS <HERE>

PERHAPS TRUMP OR CRUZ CAN USE THAT HANDY CHART TO MAKE A LIST OF NATIONS TO ATTACK SO THE CONCEPT DOESN'T SPREAD TO AMERICA?

[BY THE WAY, HAS ANYONE CHECKED TO MAKE SURE EITHER OF THEM CAN ACTUALLY READ?]


AND THEN THERE IS THAT THING, THAT ABOMINATION, WHICH SETS AMERICA APART FROM TRULY 'DEMOCRATIC' NATIONS WHERE THE POPULAR VOTE DECIDES THE WINNER, THAT TRIPE WE CALL OUR "ELECTORAL COLLEGE", WHICH ROBS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF OUR RIGHT TO ACTUALLY CHOOSE A PRESIDENT BECAUSE, AGAIN, THOSE OLD FOUNDING DADDIES SCREWED US BY ASSUMING WE'D ALL BE TOO IGNORANT TO CAST AN INFORMED VOTE, AND WHO WERE SO TERRIFIED OF "MAJORITY RULE" THAT HALF OR MORE OF THEM MAY HAVE LITERALLY DIED OF FRIGHT.

"In every state but Maine and Nebraska, electors are awarded on a winner-take-all basis. So if a candidate wins a state by even ONE VOTE, he or she wins ALL of the state’s electoral votes."

THIS CAN EFFECTIVELY NEGATE THE WILL OF, SAY, 49.9999999 PERCENT OF VOTES IN ANY STATE AND HAS GIVEN US BUSH #2 OVER GORE, CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN VOTERS. 


WHY THE MAJORITY VOTED FOR A TWAT LIKE GORE IS QUITE PERPLEXING, BUT THEN WE HAVE GWB's "BUSHISMS" TO SHOW US AGAIN AND AGAIN WHAT A CLOWN HE WAS AS WELL.


THAT THE OLD ELITIST FOUNDING FATHERS DUBBED AMERICA A 'REPUBLIC', MAKING ALL OF US SUBJECT TO BEING CALLED 'REPUBLICANS', IS SOMETHING, ALONG WITH THAT ELECTORAL COLLEGE ROT, THAT PROMPTS ME TO OFTEN WANT TO GO DIG THEM UP AND SLAP THEIR FACES.
HOWEVER, BEING CALLED A DEMOCRACY (BY THE UNKNOWING), BEING DUBBED 'DEMOCRATS' IS EQUALLY OFFENSIVE.


THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SHOULD HAVE CALMED THE 'PUBLICANS DOWN ENOUGH SO THAT NONE OF US AMERICANS HAVE TO RUN THE GAUNTLET TO GET TO THE VOTING BOOTH. 
BUT, NOOOO.


INSTEAD WE'RE CHALLENGED MORE EACH YEAR BY WILD-EYED GOP PARTY WORKERS WITH CATTLE PRODS, TASERS AND TRANQUILIZER DART GUNS JUMPING OUT IN FRONT OF US AS WE MAKE A MAD DASH FOR THE POLLING PLACES ACROSS AMERICA , MANIACALLY DEMANDING TO KNOW "ARE YOU VOTING GOP?" 

I HEAR THEY'RE TRAINING SNIPERS, FOLKS.


WE ARE SO SCREWED.

AND, THIS ELECTION YEAR AS IN TOO MANY OTHER ELECTION YEARS, WE'RE REALLY SCREWED BY OUR SO-CALLED CHOICES, NO?

WILL IT BE A MAN WHO LOOKS LIKE HE MIGHT BE CLOSELY RELATED TO LBJ, OUR VERY OWN "FOREST GUMP", TEDKINS 'I'M A CANADIAN OUTCAST' CRUZ, OR WILL IT BE DONALD 'IF YOU LOOK AT MY HAIR AND MOUTH LONG ENOUGH YOU'LL GO CRAZY' TRUMP, SELF-MADE RACIST PIG, OR WILL IT BE HILLARY/BILLARY 'PUT ME IN LEATHER AND HAND ME A WHIP' CLINTON, OR, AS A LONG-SHOT, LITTLE BERNIE 'I TRY SO HARD NOT TO BORE YOU TO DEATH' SANDERS?

IS THERE NO MERCY IN AMERICAN POLITICS?
WHAT A GRUESOME FOURSOME!

(SHUDDER, SHUDDER, SCREAM!)

THANKS BE, THE TEA ROOM IS A "NO-PARTY' VOTER.
I AM NOT FACED BY THE CHOICE OF "BEST OF THE WORST" IN ANY "PARTY".

I WILL DO AS I HAVE FOR MANY MOONS NOW...CLAW MY WAY TO THE LONG VOTING LINES, USING MY "ZIPPY WALKER" LIKE A SHERMAN TANK AND MY TRUSTY CANE AS A SWORD TO FEND OFF BOTH GOP AMBUSHERS AND DEMOCRAT "LET ME HELP YOU, HONEY" WORKERS WITH HAMMER AND SICKLE FOREHEAD TATTOOS, AND I WILL CAST MY VOTE... ANOTHER WRITE-IN...BECAUSE NOBODY OUT THERE WHOSE NAME IS ON A BALLOT DESERVES MY VOTE.

THIS YEAR, SINCE BOTH MY BROTHER AND MY FATHER HAVE RECENTLY PASSED AWAY AND I CAN'T WRITE IN ONE OF THEIR NAMES AS I HAVE BEFORE, I JUST MAY WRITE-IN MY OLDEST DOG'S NAME.


SHE'S HONEST.
SHE'S FAITHFUL AND BRAVE.
SHE'D UPHOLD THAT OLD CONSTITUTION, IF SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS.
SHE'D KEEP EVERY CAMPAIGN PROMISE, IF SHE COULD MAKE ANY.

SHE'D MAKE A PERFECT PRESIDENT...COMPARED TO EVERYONE WHO'S RUNNING.

VOTE,AMERICA!
IT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF POLITICIANS WHEN WE VOTE IN LARGE NUMBERS.





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