How can more people vote?

Many people don't bother to vote.  Electronic/internet voting would help this, but problems with fraud, tampering and falsification prevent the system from working well.  There's also getting people to recognize, understand, and learn about local and state issues, as many feel their vote is meaningless and won't make a difference- a sort of "what will be will be" attitude.

The biggest thing would probably be to make election day a holiday.  As it stands it's very difficult for the working person to vote as there are usually lines of old people in the morning so they'll be late if they stick around or there are huge lines in the evening of all the working people who couldn't vote earlier.  Having a holiday would ease the frustration of the process and make it so that the polls really would be available all day instead of just for old senile people and young people who can't vote anyways.

Making it eaiser to vote, and voting stands more accessable would be a big thing.

I am a college student, and therefore, spend the majority of my time a great distance from my district (where my parents live, and where I'm registered), and therefore, every time I want to vote, I have to apply for a absentee ballot (which isn't a very easy process), wait for my application to return, and then send it back to them, making sure I meet all deadlines (of which there are plenty), and that the postal system works.  Essentially, this is the process that any college or university student who wants to vote has to go through, and one of the main reasons why the 18-25 year old demographic is horridly underrrepresented.

Even when I am back in my district (like I am for the summer), I have to manage to get to the voting booths.  The closest one is a 2 hour walk from my house, and the only time I can get there is before I go to work, which is ~1 hr walk.  That means if I want to vote, I have to get up at 5 am at the latest, and immediatly be out the door.  This is another problem altogether, however, dealing with the lack of decent public transportation in this country, and my lack of a bike.

The question though is why you want more people to vote?  The more people that vote the more diluted YOUR vote is.  The less people that vote means your opinion holds more weight.  Encouraging only those of a like mind would be the more intelligent thing to do rather than just trying to get everyone to vote more.  Sort of like libertarians doing with the Free State Project.  They aren't trying to get everyone to move because NH is just such a wonderful place, but just politcally active libertarians who will have an influence on the local politics.

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Yeah make election day a holiday.  I agree that sounds good.