Provisional Ballots are the new Hanging Chads

BTW - "Intelligence standard" - I'm not speaking about a test of any sort - only the premise that if someone doesn't see the value in voting, then let them not vote, rather than having voter-registration drives that encourage apathetic people to cast uninformed votes.

if someone doesn't see the value in voting, they probably don't vote!

and it's unfair to think that voter-registration drives are necessarily about "apathetic" people, though those people may certainly be uninformed (esp. about how to register to vote!). I also don't think, given the way things are in this country, that it's a sin to try to help uninformed or disadvantaged people. Perhaps if there was more initiative to that end, this country would be a better place.

That's where door-to-door registration canvassing, Rock the Vote, etc.. come in. Those programs have value in that they put the spark in people's mind that they should think about voting - and may somewhat explain what the issues are .. But there are a lot of movements that kind of seem to shame people into voting - because "It's your right/privilege/duty.." But people should vote because they *want to change/keep leadership - not just because someone told them they're supposed to do it.

I can't really speak to that as I'm not really familiar or aware of movements that shame people into voting. There's been a fair amount of shaming on ILE, of which I have been party to, but that's different.