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Also prevent uninterested, lazy, people from voting out of spite.

I know it's unpopular to say, but I don't think it's a bad thing that voting requires personal (strictly personal; no corporation should get in your way) effort.

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Because the amount of spare effort people have available is correlated to class, and thus adding more hoops to jump through is yet another way to favor the idle rich over the working poor.

But I also don't see why the first sentence is inherently bad. Why is it good to police what type of people may vote? Why is it good to police the reason for voting?

I just feel that spiteful voting is damaging and a recent abuse of the confidence in the voter to do what’s right for 4 years.

I agree. I never understood the notion of same-day registration, nor the constant blasting of voting reminders for months before the midterms. Do we really want people who have to be extremely convinced to vote, to vote? Do we really want people who didn't care at all, got convinced by one team the day of, and decided to vote on a whim, to vote? Thus, are the votes from people who had to be reminded on twitter and google to vote, "real" votes? Or were they gamed?

Yeah... all the talk of emotion-driven-politics makes me dizzy. Politics should be boring (if everything is ok)

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