You would think that everyone would register to vote. Especially this year. There’s a lot on the line. Or at the very least that everyone that is registered to vote would cast their ballot. And yet that won’t happen either.
To a certain extent I get it. People are disenfranchised with the Electoral College system. They feel like their individual vote doesn’t matter. Or they may have wanted to vote but couldn’t make it to the ballot on time. Or didn’t want to have wait in line all day. Whatever the case may be not everyone votes.
But what if there was a way to guarantee high voter turnout and make election day the exciting event that it should be, not the exercise in existential dread that it currently is. Let’s turn the whole thing into a Powerball drawing! Where we don’t just elect a new President, we also mint a new millionaire.
It’s an idea put forth on Twitter by Masterclass founder David Rogier (@drogier) who figures that we could get 90% of people to vote if everyone who voted was automatically entered to win $500 million dollars.
Personally, I’m a big fan of this idea and it certainly would get me to vote no matter who the candidates were. In fact, you could even make it so that people get an additional chance to win for every position they vote for, thereby ensuring that everyone fills out their entire ballot, even the damn backside with 50 judges that no one has ever heard of.
Plus the idea of Powerball Voting has a nice ring to it since the event symbolizes not only a chance to win money via a lottery but also the idea of power being up for grabs in the election.
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