Everyone voting? The horror!

[SomeRandom]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

 

[Lain]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

Dems would win (???). Country would still be a Hellscape. That's about all I think would happen.

 

[SomeRandom]

Dems would win (???). Country would still be a Hellscape. That's about all I think would happen.

Interesting. Why do you say that, if you don’t mind my asking?

 

[Lain]

Interesting. Why do you say that, if you don’t mind my asking?

IIRC they consistently win the popular vote and the Reds continually have to use voter suppression methods or straight up stealing the vote (Bush v. Gore) in order to stay in, and they are dying as a party. So if literally every single eligible adult could vote I'd expect them to just win.

I think the country would still be bad because of the current condition of the people in it being evil I think, so I do not expect that anyone that arose from them would be better. Like produces like after all in my opinion.

 

[Altfish]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

The GOP would lose out, why else would they inflict voter surpression laws?
They are scared of everyone voting.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

You have to be mad enough to vote.

 

[PureX]

If the dems had a big majority in government, they'd have a very hard time explaining why they are still behaving like republicans.

 

[SomeRandom]

You have to be mad enough to vote.

Too true

 

[pearl]

I also know that there’s gerrymandering?

Gerrymandering ought to be done away with. Both parties are guilty of using it, but more so it benefits the Republicans.

But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?

I think it would easily be the Democrats, the Republicans know this, thus the reason for all the new voter restriction laws in effect. Every ten years there is a federal census taken from which is decided the number of senators any state is allowed, which in turn may determine which party has the majority in Congress. One state, Texas? there is a large increase in the Black and Hispanic population which increased the number of senators Texas is allowed to 3. The very population which accounted for the increase in population has voting restrictions applied to them.

 

[Quetzal]

But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

It is hard to say but I will say this: when the US has larger overall turnouts, Democrats tend to win elections (on the national level). Not saying that trend would continue if we expand it to the entire population, but that is the trend.

 

[Audie]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

I think most votes would be cast by
people with no idea of what they are doing other than maybe getting an obama phone.

Or, as I overheard in the US years ago when
I had a little gun and was practicing-
"I just vote for my gun rights".

There might be a good system for universal
voting and having it work well, but the USA
sure isnt leading the way.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think most votes would be cast by
people with no idea of what they are doing other than maybe getting an obama phone.

Or, as I overheard in the US years ago when
I had a little gun and was practicing-
"I just vote for my gun rights".

There might be a good system for universal
voting and having it work well, but the USA
sure isnt leading the way.

I see no advantage in compelling voting by
people uninterested in it. A disadvantage is
that such people will be more subject to
influence by candidates best at manipulation
by the shallowest of impressions.

 

[anna.]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

In 2019 according to Pew there was an even split between Democrats/Democrat-leaning independents and Republicans/Republican-leaning independents in the U.S. A large factor in any election is which way independents will lean. This is why the Republican campaign of gerrymandering and vote-suppression is so concerning, because they know by making it harder for 'one person, one vote' to happen, they can shift an election just enough to win.

 

[crossfire]

IIRC they consistently win the popular vote and the Reds continually have to use voter suppression methods or straight up stealing the vote (Bush v. Gore) in order to stay in, and they are dying as a party. So if literally every single eligible adult could vote I'd expect them to just win.

I think the country would still be bad because of the current condition of the people in it being evil I think, so I do not expect that anyone that arose from them would be better. Like produces like after all in my opinion.

^^ This ^^
The GOP is in dire need of an exorcism.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I know that in the US voting is not mandatory so you have to do so on your own volition. I also know that there’s gerrymandering? Or voter suppression tactics, which I won’t pretend to understand
But if every single US citizen voted, what do you think would be the outcome in congress? Would one party win or would it be a tie?
What do you think as Mericans?
I’m merely curious

USA is mostly a republic, which means we have indirect voting for policies. That would push us towards the more democratic kind of state. We would have more direct representation, more turbulent policy changes, more responsive government. Probably there would be many benefits in the short term. Long term I don't know about.

 

[Brickjectivity]

USA is mostly a republic, which means we have indirect voting for policies. That would push us towards the more democratic kind of state. We would have more direct representation, more turbulent policy changes, more responsive government. Probably there would be many benefits in the short term. Long term I don't know about.

If I wanted to really dig in and think about it I'd need more thorough understanding of my nation's political history, so I could look at how that kind of voting would have affected policy in the past.

 

[Revoltingest]

From a 3rd party perspective, both Dems & Pubs
play the voting disenfranchisement game to keep
the other at bay. But most vexing of all, they play
it to entrench the 2 party system. They both seek
to present real alternatives to Repubmocrats.
I'd like to see "at large" voting.
Definition of AT-LARGE
"relating to or being a political representative who is elected
to serve an entire area rather than one of its subdivisions"

Both parties generally oppose it because they fear
loss of power. For example, the NAACP likes district
type voting because it gives them power.
https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/At-Large-Voting-Frequently-Asked-Questions-1.pdf

 

[sun rise]

You have to be mad enough to vote.

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

 

[sun rise]

From a 3rd party perspective, both Dems & Pubs
play the voting disenfranchisement

How do Democrats actually disenfranchise voters? And I mean disenfranchise using the meaning of disenfranchise. Cite multiple examples of Democrats actually disenfranchising voters because the news is full of such things on the part of the right every day.

 

[Revoltingest]

How do Democrats actually disenfranchise voters?

Opposition to changes that would give 3rd parties power.
Their use of districting ensures no aggregating power for
any but the The Big Two.