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In principle, encouraging voter registration and voting in elections (for US citizens) is a great idea. However, IMHO, it would only work if a stipulation were on the books that partisanship on any level were prohibited.
Given how strident peoples' feelings are on any political topic (take a look at GC threads from the past month) this idea could blow up if boundaries aren't set. You never know when someone of any political bent would get a wild hair and start over-promoting an agenda that could potentially split a chapter, or even an organization.
This is quite close to the discussions posted earlier about religious activities in an org. Someone once innocently posted that people in their chapter of like mind would have a Bible study. Then someone else from a different chapter (or even from a different org!) got offended even at the *concept* of people of faith expressing it publicly, merely because they disagreed with it. That's the sign of a major powderkeg.
Political feelings run just as high. As soon as someone expresses the political ideas and try to live by them in public, someone else will be o-ffen-ded and call for their censorship. Not a good way to build brotherhood or sisterhood.
All good innovations about personal ideals stay good when there are boundaries to them.
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