I'd be in favor of that, but could easily see it challenged on 1st Amendment grounds - though I'd counter by proposing a "None" option on the ballot, so at least you participated. If voting was mandatory, it should also be a national holiday or people should otherwise be allowed time off from work to vote, as well as early in-person voting, and voting my mail would definitely have to be allowed, postmarked by election day. You have to provide various opportunities to vote if it's required...

I'll add that my personal feeling is that if you don't vote/participate, you don't get to complain.

The popular vote was 49.81% (77,303,568) for Trump and 48.34% (75,019,230) for Harris meaning Trump won by 1.47% -- or, as Trump and his minions call it, "a landslide". There were 90 million eligible voters who did *not* vote, meaning more people opted-out than voted for either.

Among all 245M eligible voters, the overall percentages were roughly: 31%, Harris: 30%, None: 36%

How Many People Didn’t Vote in the 2024 Election?

It's not just that, they have more options and fewer responsibilities than regular (actual) people.

Trump: "I was the most transparent, and am, transparent President in history." -- except ... except ... except ...

- AxCrypt 1.7.3
- MS Publisher 2010

On my Linux Mint 22.3 system, I'm using 7z (with longer passwords) in lieu of AxCrypt, at the moment, and will have to get better with LibreOffice and/or learn Scribus for the the things I did in Publisher, mostly greeting cards. I converted my more complex Word docs and Excel spreadsheets to LibreOffice a while ago.

Until he complains he was treated unfairly, ponies up some $$$, and gets a pardon from Trump. Maybe get a discount if he tries to blame his treatment on Biden or Obama. Trump's okay with white collar crimes, especially if he gets a cut.

There is no spoon.

Ya, but the new law also provides free snorkels, masks and swim fins to residents to mitigate policy ramifications. Besides, the idiots who passed this will probably either be dead or moved out of state by the time the bills come due.

Henrico County wraps clockwise around the top of Richmond from about the 9 to 5 o'clock positions. Most data centers are just north of Richmond, some are east and south-east. Plug, "Henrico County data center" into google Maps for pins.

Whatever they come up with won't involve AI replacing politicians and upper management types.

The DOGE Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a chainsaw. How weird is that? I got... a short span here... they destroyed my .gov equipment but I have a back-up unit... bottom of the complex, right over the generator. Hard to get to. I know they missed it. They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.

You can, it's not illegal, but you really, really shouldn't.

Probably why Trump doesn't understand it -- despite, supposedly, having earned a BS in Economics from Wharton.

Quitters, Inc has a 98% success rate and guarantees that the person will quit smoking forever.

I wonder how long they'd have tried had it been a ceramic knife. :-)

More seriously, TFS says the suspect had been "seen earlier with a firearm" but found sleeping with a knife, so how did this "bring the incident to a safe resolution," so they didn't have to "rush into a potentially deadly encounter"? He could still have had a firearm. All in all, just seems like an opportunity to justify the expenditure on the robot.