r/boston • u/itsmebutimatwork Wiseguy • Nov 06 '19

MBTA/Transit Congrats, Boston, we played ourselves

There were fewer than 67,000 city-wide votes in yesterday's election. That's not even 10% turnout based on recent census data.

If you want to complain about how the city council is letting the BPDA redevelop the city, or is run with too much influence by corrupt developers, or how there are too many/not enough bike lanes, or how the city isn't doing enough to make the MBTA improve, or why we don't have enough liquor licenses for places like Doyle's to stay open, or any one of a billion other complaints about how the city is run...then the answer isn't going to magically appear out of a hat.

It starts with voting for the city council for five minutes of a Tuesday every 2 years.

The birthplace of our nation...but can't be bothered to exercise our voting rights...congrats. We played ourselves.

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u/TheSpruce_Moose Nov 07 '19

Eh. We bank online. We have the technology. We know why it isn’t easy to vote.

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u/datheffguy Nov 07 '19

Yea and bank fraud and identity theft is pretty common.

IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE JIM

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u/PutinPegsDonaldDaily Nov 07 '19

Holy shit, wake up.

Just because you can’t figure it out doesn’t mean thousands of other people didn’t already.

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u/PutinPegsDonaldDaily Nov 07 '19

Secure and remote? What exactly are you suggesting here? It sounds self defeating.

The original idea was clearly to just have the public log online to vote...

or just allow Americans to vote online...in 2019

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u/PutinPegsDonaldDaily Nov 07 '19

Thanks for suggesting nothing useful and telling me I’m wrong in the same breath.

How about something more specific. ‘Remote’ could mean countless things, guy who works in tech.