Step 2 is out it is in most countries in Europe. But honestly I like how it is in the UK. You vote on a Thursday and people have legally mandated time off during that day to go vote.
I feel like a lot of people would definitely vote if it gave them paid time off from their work.
If you move to a weekend then it comes off their free time and they might be away etc
There should be a tax incentive for voting or something
Step 1: make voting compulsory
Step 2: move it to a weekend
Step 3: easy access to prepoll or postal voting for people who can’t make it on the official day
Bonus step: change voting system to IRV, or even better, to something proportional like MMP or STV
There you go. America has a functioning electoral system.
Step 2 is out it is in most countries in Europe. But honestly I like how it is in the UK. You vote on a Thursday and people have legally mandated time off during that day to go vote.
I feel like a lot of people would definitely vote if it gave them paid time off from their work.
If you move to a weekend then it comes off their free time and they might be away etc
Also free and no hurdles mail voting.
Where do you get the legal time off thing? afaik that’s not a UK law - they would tell you to vote by post if you’re going to be at work all day.
What does help is that polling stations are everywhere - I’ve never had to walk more than a few hundred metres to vote, nor had to wait.
We’re going to need voter id
Or do it the other way around, the amount of money that the government can spend is limited by voter turnout.
Clearly if you can’t get people excited enough to vote for your policies, you don’t have a mandate.
Tankies think that’s already how the US electoral system works. They think voting for Biden made more bombs fall on Gaza