Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits

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Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
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I'm from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.

Given that only about 36% of the eligible voting population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.

With that turnout it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.

Australia had a bad turnout once and the illegitimate government got tired of being rightfully called illegitimate and said from now on everyone votes, and it helped a little bit.

That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It'll never happen

I always wondered how it came about, Wws the govt that introduced it rewarded by being proven to be illegitimate? I could easily imagine they'd get pounded at the next election just for forcing people to come out and vote when they'd rather not!