Is there anywhere to start a new country with sane people???
Obama ain’t gonna like this.
Excellent!
But is it?
The Constitution originally required only that the qualification to vote for Congress be the same as the individual state set for its own lower house.
That has since been amended for racial, gender, poll tax, and age.
But otherwise, as long as a state let noncitizens vote for its lower house, seems like it could let them vote for Congress.
Wow...I’m shocked...
I somehow think this is tied in with the behind the scenes push to surpress the Clinton voter fraud machine
Voting Procedures in Honduras, a Banana Republic!
(a re-write of excellent post by Gideon300)
I had the opportunity to go watch my wife, a citizen of Honduras, vote in last years presidential election in Tegucigalpa. It was a real eye-opener, and I can only wish the US had such a strict voting process.
Everyone in Honduras is required to vote only in the precinct as indicated on their government issued (free) photo ID card. Every citizen over 18 is required to have an national ID, and everyone with an ID can vote. No one else, and no one is registered as a member of a certain party, merely a citizen. My wifes precinct is Barrio El Bosque, so she was required to go to the Escuela de 14 de Julio (local elementary school) if she wanted to vote.
When we arrived at the voting place there were hundreds of people milling around the street and a long line was waiting to enter. The entire scene was closely watched over by Army and PolicÃa Nacionál to make sure order was kept. For the most part everything was quite orderly, and people were polite to each other even with the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. After showing ID, passing the guard and entering the school we went to the main table in the courtyard where they ran her ID through a computer and she was given a little slip of paper that indicated her name, her precinct, her ^mesa^ (voting area) and ^linea^ number (her number on the voter registration list). Every citizen is automatically registered to vote, and their name, Id photo and precinct number is on a list posted in that precinct.
The ^mesas^ in this case are rooms in the school, numbered in order to handle the hundreds of people waiting to vote. Her mesa was number 8586, so after finding the room, there was a list of all registered voters beside the door. She checked her line number with photo, 235, to make sure she is at the right door, the man watching the door checked her ID against the list, and let her in. She went to the table inside the room
for a ballot, was checked again for ID and compared it to the info and photo in the registry, was given two ballots, one for president and one for congress, and this time they held her ID while she voted. I was allowed in as a foreign observer, but was not on school tables for privacy, so after voting she deposited her ballots in the appropriate boxes, was given her ID back and we left.
I wanted to take photos but no cameras were allowed anywhere but in the street. No alcohol is sold anywhere in Honduras from Saturday through Monday, the day before and the day after election.
They take voter ID, and potential vote fraud, VERY seriously. All ballots are paper, and all have the candidate’s info and photo. There are eight official parties in Honduras, and the one with the most votes wins. The police and the army watch the voting very closely. One woman was caught with an extra ballot, and was immediately arrested. The Honduras news media, which is quite politically unbiased, indicated that both local and official foreign observers found only three cases of vote fraud in the entire country.
It was certainly an eye-opener for me! If this is the difference between a the US and a Banana Republic, then I will take a banana republic election anytime.
Screw the damn communists Democrats. It is time to wipe them out once and for all. When Trump becomes President he must insist the House and Senate set new guidelines for all States for General Elections.
A step in the right direction. Now for the absentee ballots.
It doesn’t add up. Obama’s people wouldn’t allow for something like this.
There must be other circumstances in the background that compelled the EAC to reverse.
I would like to see the backstory on this major ‘about face.’ My thought is that it is highly unlikely that a new executive director could pull this off on his own.
The author seems like a troll. Vote fraud is a big problem. It is overwhelmingly committed by citizens who have political jobs/contracts as navigators, etc and need to produce the vote to keep their money coming.
They register people to vote without the awareness of the alleged voter. They vote on behalf of that person who isn’t aware.
They themselves register from multiple addresses, from their mom’s address, their girlfriend’s address, their sister’s address, their inlaw’s address, etc.
They identify voters who moved and vote on their behalf. They identify voters who never show up and vote on their behalf.
Then there are the Occupy Wallstreet type college student trust fund kids who think it is a lark, a rush, to mess with the corrupt system. They send vans of students from precinct to precinct that has student housing and vote on behalf of the students who no longer live there. Of course, student housing has extremely high turnover so there is no way for anyone to verify who actually lives there and who doesn’t.
But the big disservice of the author is to emphasize illegals. The reality is that most immigrants are legal; not illegal. So the low education immigrant hears the attacks against illegals and concludes that he can register to vote because he is legal and the idiots like the author give legals a pass.
Does anyone think through what is really happening and how they enable what they deplore?