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DEBASING DEMOCRACY?(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, heading up the National Commission on Federal Election, offered a series of election reforms on Tuesday. Like their presidencies, these "reforms" are well-meaning -- and dubious.
Ford and Carter suggest, for example, that the U.S. make Election Day a national holiday. Join it to Veterans Day, they propose.
Never mind that most public companies stay open on that day, owing to the open stock market. As a result, some of the most productive people in our society would find little relief under this proposal. It looks to us like a get-out-the-bureaucrat vote drive.
The report is equally suspect on other issues, such as: creating a national right to vote for felons, creating a new congressional commission to set up and test "voluntary" election standards for states -- another program for Congress to mess up -- and allowing "provisional" voting.
Under this last scheme, voters could vote even if ...
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