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Today is the 3rd day of the 44th week, the 30th day of the 10th month, the 303rd day of 2018, and:
- Buy a Doughnut Day
- Checklist Day
- Create a Great Funeral Day
- Haunted Refrigerator Night
- Mischief Night
- National Candy Corn Dy
- National Publicist Day
- National Speak Up for Service Day
- Pumpkin Bread Day
- Sugar Addiction Awareness Day
- World Audio Drama Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1869 - George Desbarats publishes the premiere issue of his Canadian Illustrated News in Montréal; the world's first periodical to use the half-tone technique to reproduce a photograph
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1944 – Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1957 - The British Government reveals details of plans to reform the House of Lords which include creating the first women life peerages.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
Quote of the day:
"The past cannot be changed. The future is still in your power."
~ Hugh Lawson White (1773 - 1840), American Politician
Why is the voter turnout historically so low in the United States? We certainly have no compunction about vociferously stating our opinions and defending our points of view. In other countries?
- Voting is made easy. There is voting on line or by mail weeks before election day
- Registration is made easy. For example, the Swiss automatically registers each citizen as a voter and then sends out notices telling them where and when to vote
- Election Day is either held on a weekend or made a national holiday to encourage people to go to the polls
- In about two dozen countries, voting is actually mandatory and not voting negatively impacts both your ability to get a job and your credit rating
- In at least one country, you can vote at any polling place instead of having to go to a designated spot
So how can we encourage people to get out and vote? Certainly the early voting in many states is a step in the right direction as is the uptick in acceptance of mailed ballots but we need to do more. My main suggestions would be to [1] increase the number of eligible voters by making the process of voter registration simple and intuitive and widely available – online and at every Post Office for example. Then I would [2] make Election Day a federal holiday so that folks are less worried about having to stand in long lines because so many are trying to vote before or after work. We need to do something because over a third of the registered voters [39.78% or 91,739,344 people] did not vote two years ago.
No matter who or what you are voting for, get out there and let your opinion be heard because if you don’t you still have to live with the result
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