Last week on the news I heard a story that the members of the teacher's unions in Nevada were upset that the state was going to open polling places in the casinos, because it would give members of the culinary workers' unions "too much voting power".
Once again, I find this concept absolutely outrageous. Each person has exactly the same voting power, which is one vote. The fact that Nevada was making it possible for more people to exercise this power is to be applauded - in fact there should be enough polling places that every single person can exercise their equal power without any trouble or impediment, or disincentive like they might get fired from work or something.
And once again, I am probably finding this outrageous because I'm coming from a land where voting is compulsory. Every person has one vote and they are compelled to roll up to a polling place and tell the government what it is, or risk a fine.
Wish we had that here. It would solve lots of problems, I reckon. And would circumvent ridiculous conversations like the one Nevada is having with the teacher's union.
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