Focus on the mid-term elections, now less than two months away, is heating up. As always, the Left erroneously claims that the Right seeks to suppress the number of people who can and may vote, rather than expand the number. The Right correctly reports that the Left – that ‘big tent’ party – seeks to contort the voting process by allowing everyone, legal, illegal, registered, or not registered, to vote. In any case, Democrats are hell-bent on perpetually skewing election results on the local, state, and federal level.

After the smoke has cleared, only two ways exist to increase voter participation, assuming, of course, that we’re talking about valid, registered, U.S. citizens who have a legal right to vote in the U.S. The first and best way to increase voter participation is by maintaining or restoring public confidence in the voting process. The second and worst way is by forcing people to participate.

Public Confidence Matters

Long before the internet, television, and the largely Left-wing mass media conglomerates that rule the airwaves, a large percentage of U.S. citizens routinely voted. From 1850 to 1900, in ‘pre-mass media’ America, the participation rate of the voting-age........

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