Yes, this is a good reality check. We should require photo ID to vote, and voting should be in person, on paper, not electronic. And it should be on an election day, not over several months.
“It is not a right enumerated in the Constitution. Despite that, voting is a powerful thing. It is more powerful than a firearm. The illegal use of a firearm can lead to loss of lives, but the illegal use of votes can undo the will of the entire country. “
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This is absolutely brilliant.
Why are some “rights” allowed to have soooo many caveats, contingencies, and qualifiers, but other so-called rights are pushed to the precipice of anarchy and free-for-all chaos?
The real answer is, who do you want to give the power to? The people, or the government?
Anybody who has ever personally profited by violating anybody else’s rights has proven they are incapable of living much less voting in civilization
Fine by me, but it won’t do jack about the software problems.
According to biden it’s not “Jim Crow” it’s “Jim Eagle”.
Better idea: Issue every American citizen, at no out of pocket cost to him or her, a US passport. Update it periodically. Require voters to show their passport at the polls.
Problem solved.
Now that would really put Stacey Abram’s thongs in a wad. Think about that.
“Universal background checks should be required for voting”
Why? Let’s see. Background checks needed for guns that kill people but no background checks needed for illegal voters that can kill the Republic. Hmmmmmm
If voting is the most important thing that a citizen can do, then, it must require IDs for elections, all of them.
Winning elections awards the right to manage the money and direction of a locality or state or country. Changing the direction of a country can be far more damaging than an invasion by foreign power. Taking control of a country should only be done via fair elections requiring IDs and no fraud. So, even if the country heads in the ‘wrong’ direction, it would have been fair if only citizens with verifiable IDs did the voting.
Democrats imposed their damaging agenda on the country via the heavily fraudulent voting in the last election. There s no way that the majority of the people really wanted Biden and/or the socialist agenda which the democrats promised. It was a coup of a magnitude that has never been seen in human history.
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How about Universal Background Checks on those individuals wanting to run for Political Office and/or Public Sector Careers?
The rights of the American people are not enumerated in the US Constitution. Some rights are directly mentioned in parts of the US Constitution, but the lack of mention does NOT mean those rights aren’t real.
9th Amendment - “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
I agree rhetorically that if you slapped half the anti-gun restrictions the left loves so much on things like voting or abortion (ID checks, background checks, mandatory waiting periods, expensive education courses, etc.), they’d lose their minds, but we should be clear that the US Constitution protects ALL our rights; not only those mentioned by name.
A brilliant idea!
Democrats would use their control to force people to prove they're WOKE... I mean - they can define 'background' their own way... Proving WHO you are and that you're a citizen is plenty...
Common sense reforms...
Ad having kids to that.