What happens if a constitutional option is not made avilable to voters in an election?
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You should denounce it
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Yes, because part of the "choice" in a democracy is not to vote for anyone at all. (Although a "none of the above" option on a ballot would suffice for that.)  The problem is that Americans don't believe that they have a duty to vote.
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Yeah, you got it about right. They may not to be able to do anything about it. It's up to the voters, remember this is a free country. We all get to vote.
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Not anymore. You should have called the Secretary of State's office weeks ago if you had not yet received the ballot. By law, no votes cast after the election night deadline may be counted.
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What? Is this for real? What are your sources? I don't think they could ever take the right to vote away. There would be too many people against it. There would be an enormous uprising. So, realistically speaking it could never happen.
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A ballot that has been cast but shows no selection in a given race or referendum.\n\nThe number of such ballots cast in an election.
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You answered the question yourself.  This is not a democracy; it is a representative republic.  The voters have entrusted their elected representatives to make such decisions on their behalf.  If the representatives don't make the decisions the populace agrees with, they can vote them out of office.  Laws can be passed that place restrictions on what politicians can do without a vote of the people.  For example, many states and municipalities have laws that say that politicians can raise taxes only with a vote of the people.\n\nIn most cases, voters put people in place that represent the will of the people.  They do this mainly as a convenience because it's not practical to have the entire population vote on most issues.  True democracy works only in very small populations -- like with the "town meetings" in New England.  Beyond that, a representative form of government generally works the best.
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I don't think so.  If people don't want to vote, why make them?  Will it mean anything if they just pick random people because they don't want to be there?
818777
Excellent question.  Any proposed change that would violate our State Constitution, must be presented to the people so the majority can decide whether or not that constitutional change should be made.  Proposed laws, that don't change the constitution can be voted on in Lansing by our lawmakers.  Hope this helps you understand.
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When the Senate figures out how to get around the Constitutionality problem their bill has right now, or when one of the alternatives being introduced come up for a vote.\n\nYou could write or email your Congressmen to find out, and let them know of your interest.
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Its an "implied right".  Its not in the constitution.
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No. The very latest you can vote is on election day.\n\nYou'll have to wait for the next election to vote.
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Yes. You could use the 'territory' rules that other places use, where the number of Representatives and/or Senators from DC (and maybe Puerto Rico) is smaller, because it isn't a state. But, it's hard to imagine a really good reason why the people of the Capital of the United States of America don't get to vote.
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If people don't vote, they need to accept everyone else's decisions becuase that is why you have the right to vote.  You each have to exercise that right or you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.
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you must vote othervise you will lose democracy.pepole go back of the one of their religion or state.dont do that.if you follow this you will enjoy voting
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you cannot because the people who run this thing already did if you didn't vote for it within the time given
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We probablu have to wait until January. You can't impeach without a majority vote, and the new Democratic congress won't be sworn in until January