Posted on 03/20/2009 10:36:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Can someone here enlighten me on this matter? Are there rules as to which of these folks can vote and under which circumstances? I know that Dear Leader ticked off the families and friends of Special Olympians and the disabled in general last night, but will many of the MR community be able to vote against him? Forgive me if my language isn't as PC as some would like, as I don't play that game. Thanks!
I should think this is obvious, considering the solid block that always votes democrat!
Assuming that your question is sincere, and not rhetorical:
This is a "no-brainer."
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits literacy tests, character tests, and poll taxes. It would be unthinkable that any citizen, after having attained the age of majority, and after having registered to vote, would be denied that right, unless he was, e.g. a felon.
Regards,
Given the 52% of the electorate that put Zero in office, my answer would be: Apparently.
The founders of that great republic were aware that universal franchise is suicide. As early as 1900, there were politicians who decided that suicide was a good thing.
Usually they are the ones on the ballot, not the ones voting..
Beat me to it...*S* Most assuredly did — legals or not — last election.
Shut-ins in asylums throughout the nation vote, either by being guided to the polling place, and then into the voting booth, but more commonly by absentee ballot.
Her mom took her to register to vote and they allowed it. My sister is a Democrat but when it came to chose parties my niece had asked her who the president was (Bush at the time) which my sister told her and then my niece asked what party and my sister told her Republican. So she marked Republican. First one in that family to be a Republican!
Fortunately, my sister is an honest Democrat (and is questioning alot of their values these days) and told her daughter the truth what party Bush was of. She could have lied and said he was a Democrat but didn't.
Having said all this, I question allowing people with mental handicaps being allowed to vote because in a nutshell what I just described is what we get. Not a lot of thought and reason to the consequences of a vote.
She supported Bush both times, but never checked to see if she was registered before and therefore didn't vote until this election. Course, I'm curious how she got registered in the first place.
Did you think your replies would be any different than they are to this thread?
“Can mentally retarded individuals vote?”
Well, a good number of them did on 4 Nov, so I guess so.
Sure, Democrats do it all the time.
Who do you think voted for Obama if not retards?
“I heard Hussein Obama ALSO called hydroencephaly victims WATERHEADS!”
0 can come across as urbane as he wants, but at his core, he’s a typical dumbass, corrupt Chicago hoodrat.
Yes. Some 54,000,000 did last November.
Theoretically, yes. A ruthless enrollment clerk could put such a person on the voting rolls, as there is a birth certificate, which proves nativity and age, fulfilling those requirements. However, until it was removed from the allowable criteria, the inability to speak or write was a severe stumbling block. The critical requirement of eduction was also removed, so a totally illiterate person may now vote, and of course, all other physical disabilities have been removed as impediments to enfranchisement, to the degree that all voting precincts have to be fully accessible, just in case there MIGHT be a person with such a limitation in the district.
In the pic, looks like Joe “Smiling Bob” Biden plagiarizing something besides a written document. He can only wish.
Until 1973 an IQ of 85 was considered borderline retarded by the AAMD (IQ 85 and below is a large part of the population). Then, a miracle occurred. Many millions of high functioning retarded people were “cured”...by the government pressure that led to redefining the threshhold down to IQ 70.
Liberals vote, right? Voila!
A guide to state laws on voting for people with mental disabilities is at
http://www.ndrn.org/issues/voting/resources/state_voting_rights_MD_laws%5B062304%5D.pdf . In general, I think people lose the right to vote only when they have been declared “insane” or “incompetent” by the state.
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