Why should we pay postage to vote?

Period.

I encourage all citizens to launch initiative campaigns in hopes of fulfilling my dream of an $8 postage due ballot.

I'd love to see postage paid, mail-only elections (of course with the option of voting in person at limited locations - libraries? - for those select, address challenged few), but in the meantime, King County probably has better things to do with $11k. That could have bought A LOT gas-powered of leave blowers.

And one's vote shouldn't be thrown in the trash because one purposefully or accidentally failed to put the postage on the envelope.

I'm amazed at how more and more open people have become in this country to the idea that fundamental rights are only ok if they aren't too inconvenient for the government and the oligarchs.

What's wrong with having people pay a fee at the polling station or to the USPS to help defray the costs of voting? It's a poll tax!

What's next? Having to pay to register as a citizen, so one can avail oneself of the Bill of Rights?

#3 Hit it on the nose. When you compare our voting and our healthcare system to places like Canada, we look more and more like a thugocracy banana-republic everyday.

Being the progressives that we San Franciscan's are, in Mayoral elections we also have the option of dumping our ballot directly into the Bay ourselves.

Poll voting is less expensive and more reliable.

Interestingly enough, however, the postman told me that ballots without sufficient postage would be returned. Was there perhaps varying degrees of enforcement?

A Diebold allergy, for example.

And all agree that it gets them to vote more often and with more skill. You have time to research issues and candidates, like judges, and therefore cast your ballot as a much better informed voter.

Will never use the walk in system again.

Conservative are called that because they cling to the old and stale, resent change and new ideas, and show no flexibility.

And they like low turnout of mainly older upper class white people.....with money, connections and great auras of conceit.

Three cheers for the masses voting a very informed ballot election after election.....by mail .....and the county paying for all postage involved.

in Washington state there is no need to be ill or insane or disorganized to vote by mail ........ you missed 15 years of comments and discussion on this issue

and it is called vote by mail, one of two choices, open to any voter ....same ballot, mere delivery system .... drop it in the box or mail it ... affects nothing else ... just mechanics of delivery

all that old illness and etc. stuff was thrown out many years ago .... by the way, I mix with fellow voters from my precinct every day, call them my neighbors

I like your term fellow citizens and that is why I want more of them to vote every election ..... something to do with a really functioning democracy as well

Anything to back this up, Stefan?

Watch for Stefan to increase the misleading rhetoric about all mail balloting in 2007...then ask yourself why the state of Oregon and 34 of 39 counties in the state do quite well with it.