Comment I'd rather have manitory voter education (Score 1) 1089
So many idiots get their knowledge of the candidates by scripted television ads. This is how you end up electing Monty Burns.
If instead there was a website where you could put in issues you find important (checkboxes) and get a record of voting on these issues by people in office, you could see if your incumbent did what you find important. It'd require some hard workers to simplify complex obfuscated legislation into an easy to understand format, so it is not an easy website to make, but it would be valuable.
Then people would be forced to check how their politician did against what they find important before they reelect people at the voting machines.
If instead there was a website where you could put in issues you find important (checkboxes) and get a record of voting on these issues by people in office, you could see if your incumbent did what you find important. It'd require some hard workers to simplify complex obfuscated legislation into an easy to understand format, so it is not an easy website to make, but it would be valuable.
Then people would be forced to check how their politician did against what they find important before they reelect people at the voting machines.