There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
I don't vote. I don't do no voting.
I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
If you don't vote, you don't count.