Two Suggestions: A 1% SURCHARGE on Political Contributions to Maintain Voting Infrastructure, and
Using the POST OFFICE as a place to A) get voter ID, and B) vote in advance.
I'd like to propose that we put these two things into the Democratic Party Platform!
1. A 1% surcharge (surtax) on all political contributions, which would be used to IMPROVE THE VOTING INFRASTRUCTURE. Use the money to buy optical scanners (not crooked Diebolt rigged voting machines) for congressional districts where people have to line up for hours to vote because there aren't enough machines.
We've gotten to the point where there is three or four billion dollars flying around through dark money PACs, and other front organizations. The least we can do is tax some of that money to increase the efficiency of the voting process. At 1% that would be about $40 million to buy more machines for districts where there are too few. Let's see somebody try and oppose a bill like that, and claim they're NOT in favor of VOTER SUPPRESSION and VOTE CAGING!
2. Mandate that local POST OFFICES also serve as voter registration offices (which they already are, I believe), as well as places to get PHOTO ID, and do EARLY VOTING. There's already a post office in every community. Do this, and you not only increase the efficiency of voting, but you also make it harder for Republicans to destroy the USPS.
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