Posted on 09/18/2014 1:57:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Montgomery County, Maryland, is one of the wealthiest and most liberal counties in America. If there’s a dumb progressive idea that didn’t start there, it will get there sooner or later.
Along those lines, the powers that be in Montgomery County are very concerned about low voter turnout. So concerned, in fact, the all Democrat County Council formed a “Right to Vote” Task Force to come up with ways to encourage more people to vote. The task force produced a 76-page report with more than a few suggestions that could raise a few eyebrows.
Recommendations 1-3 are:
1. The Task Force recommends that Maryland modify the online voter registration system to allow individuals without IDs from the Motor Vehicle Administration to register online by providing a signature through an electronically captured image.
2. The Task Force recommends that Maryland revise the laws regarding its online registration system so that individuals who have neither a driver’s license, state ID, nor touchscreen/signature capture technology are sent a postcard to provide a signature to mail back and complete their applications.
3. If Recommendation #2 is not implemented, the Task Force recommends that Maryland add the capability to accept online registration information from applicants who must then print, sign, and mail their completed applications, so that when the application is eventually mailed in, the information is already in the system waiting to be reviewed. The information could be kept for a set number of days, such as 45 (this is the current practice in Virginia).
Voter fraud, anyone?
Those who argue against requiring photo IDs at polling places make the argument that people are forced to show their ID when they register to vote, so that box is already checked. That, of course, doesn’t stop anyone from simply claiming to be someone else at the polls, but put that aside for a moment. Not requiring someone prove who they are when they register to vote would mean anyone could claim to be anyone else and register to vote on their behalf. This is an engraved invitation to fraud.
Recommendation 5 is:
5. The Task Force recommends that the County Council encourage the Maryland General Assembly to pass a state constitutional amendment to establish Election Day registration.
Same day registration is another invitation to fraud, especially once you remove the ID requirement. There would be no way to verify is someone were registered and already voted absentee in another state, or even if they were a resident of Maryland, if recommendations 1-3 and 5 were implemented. And once a ballot goes into the machine, it’s there for good. There is no way to find a ballot once it is cast, so it would count even if fraud were proven later. Out of state college students are a huge targets for political parties in same day registration states.
Recommendations 52-53 are:
52.The Task Force recommends that Montgomery County request the State of Maryland to allow each county to determine its own public policy with respect to the voting rights of non-citizens with permanent resident visas in county elections.
53.The Task Force recommends that Montgomery County allow non-citizens with permanent resident visas to vote in county elections if state law is changed to allow noncitizens to vote.
You read that right, non-American citizens should be allowed to vote in county elections. Not illegal aliens, mind you, at least not yet, but those here legally. One has to wonder what the point of citizenship would be at this point, but if Montgomery County Democrats are content to have the votes of their citizens cancelled out by the fraud they’d already like to enable, why not cut it some more by having non-citizens vote too?
Recommendation 58 is:
58. The Task Force recommends that the County Council and Executive propose to the Maryland General Assembly reducing the voting age from 18 to 16 years old for county elections.
Do elections really need more people with no vested interest in the outcome, no financial stake, no “skin in the game,” voting? No one knows the impact of government and its consequences like someone who’s never been impacted by it before.
Oddly, given recommendations 52, 53, and 58, Montgomery County’s “Right to Vote” Task Force seems to think the way to increase the percentage of people voting in elections is to increase the number of people who can vote. That’s not really how math works. Better, more inspiring candidates and competitive races get people to turn out, not changing the laws.
It’s already incredibly easy to register and vote. How much easier must it be made? Not voting is as valid a choice as voting is, and is sometimes a more powerful statement than voting is. You should vote, especially if you vote the way I would like to you, but you’re free to choose for yourself.
But if the right to vote is so sacrosanct, so important, why is any attempt to protect its integrity met with such outrage? Could there be something else afoot, perhaps?
If the integrity of the vote is brought into question, if a government makes fraud easier than it already is, and it sprinkles in people who should not be voting in the first place, turnout will only shrink further. Then again, considering just how dominant they are in this area, that may be what the Montgomery County Democrats really want in the first place.
When the Washington Beltway was built it threw a noose around the nuts, but they escaped, even farther outside. Virginia came around later,and it too is filled with bought votes. The Eastern shore is still habitable. Or is it?
I’m sure that they already do.
If we could leave, I’d be so out ta here!
Sounds like SF bay area. The inmates run the asylum.
I lived in Montgomery County for 8 years, and it is ultraliberal. I was in Burtonsville, which is a little less so. The county council tried to enact a leash law for cats.
The while WDC area is full of NUTZ!
“I’m in favor of moving it to 21 plus active military.”
I agree moving voting back to 21 . My first vote was in NY 61 years ago. We had to be 21 to vote and 18 to drink. We now have it backwards. Lets go back to the “good old days”
In reality, I want 25 and own property, but I would take what we could get in that direction.
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
Why wouldn’t they do it?
I’m sure the moron voters of Maryland will eagerly support this too.
I mean, why even stop at 16?
Why not make it zero?
And dead people too?
Oh and Russians living in Russia as well, oh and the China Chinese, why not, right?
I remain convinced that all those college students from “up North” who go to VA schools have helped turn the voting tide in our Old Dominion. The Obama folks recruited like crazy on college campuses; some country registrars noted residency requirements, i.e., that unless they live here all year, they shouldn’t be voting, but our then-Governor, now-Senator Kaine shut up the registrars. Voila! VA turned blue.
Not everyone can serve in the military
Bad eyes, some sort of injury, too short, too tall, feet too big. So they should be prevented from voting?
I can see raising the voting age to 21 or better 28. When they complain that they can buy beer at 21 but not vote then raise the drinking age.
Having military service as a requirement to vote would be as heinous as letting 16 year old kids vote.
Ridiculous!
When the voters of Maryland elect Barbara Milkulski to the U.S. Senate since 1986, you know Maryland is far to the left of the scale.
Has anyone seen Barbara Milkulski lately? Her age is causing problems with her ability to speak.
Since they’ve declared that anything goes, where do we get our absentee ballots? Not letting us vote just because we don’t live there is discrimination.
I. recommend ID check, Drug Test, Political Knowledge Test, Can’t be on Welfare, must be at least age 27(MILITARY CAN VOTE AT ANY AGE)
I add the military for the younger group for the following reason. Those willing to risk their life to defend this country, or whatever political posturing, should have say in those who would send them into harms way.
They should lower the voting age to 5, mandate that the dead vote, and allow mentally-ill people to vote once per voice-in-their-head.
Wasn’t it Chevy Chase Village that tried to pass an ordinance that you couldn’t smoke in the village ... anywhere! Not even in your own home.
If they can hold a civie job, in most cases, they can hold a military job. Most military jobs are in support, not frontline. Although still, a small percentage in no way can hold military jobs like you say.
Excellent post! THAT, is the way it should be.
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