Most Americans don’t really care about contemporary political issues or the rudimentary workings of their government. But they sure do love voting. And the biggest fans of “democracy” treat this orgy of vacuous lever pulling as if it were sacred or patriotic. It is neither. In 2013, President Obama, who’s often argued that voting should be easier, issued a decidedly undemocratic executive order to create a commission that was tasked with investigating how to expand participation.

The report, for example, suggests that no one in the country should have to wait longer than 30 minutes to cast a ballot — or, in other words, voting should entail 15 minutes less exertion than ordering Chinese takeout. Nowhere within the recommendations — or elsewhere, for that matter — do we ever ponder whether voters have a civic responsibility to know who the vice president is before getting an “I voted” sticker.