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Universal background checks should be required for voting
Flopping Aces ^ | 03-29-21 | DrJohn

Posted on 03/30/2021 8:41:55 AM PDT by Starman417

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1 posted on 03/30/2021 8:41:55 AM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

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.


2 posted on 03/30/2021 8:50:21 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Starman417

“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?


3 posted on 03/30/2021 8:51:32 AM PDT by z3n
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Anybody who has ever personally profited by violating anybody else’s rights has proven they are incapable of living much less voting in civilization


4 posted on 03/30/2021 8:51:50 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Starman417

Fine by me, but it won’t do jack about the software problems.


5 posted on 03/30/2021 8:53:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Starman417

According to biden it’s not “Jim Crow” it’s “Jim Eagle”.


6 posted on 03/30/2021 8:53:59 AM PDT by Bluebeard16
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To: Starman417

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.


7 posted on 03/30/2021 8:55:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Now that would really put Stacey Abram’s thongs in a wad. Think about that.


8 posted on 03/30/2021 8:56:56 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: Starman417

“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


9 posted on 03/30/2021 8:58:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (som)
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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.


10 posted on 03/30/2021 9:02:04 AM PDT by adorno
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To: DOC44

I’d rather not!


11 posted on 03/30/2021 9:03:21 AM PDT by ealgeone
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12 posted on 03/30/2021 9:03:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: adorno

Well said.


13 posted on 03/30/2021 9:06:48 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: Starman417

How about Universal Background Checks on those individuals wanting to run for Political Office and/or Public Sector Careers?


14 posted on 03/30/2021 9:20:03 AM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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To: z3n
...The real answer is, who do you want to give the power to? The people, or the government?

Uncle Sugar gives you stuff. And money.

/s

15 posted on 03/30/2021 9:25:21 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Starman417

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.


16 posted on 03/30/2021 9:28:03 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Reno89519

Not sure paper makes it harder to cheat.

Electronic can work as long as it prints out a copy of your vote with serialized # so it can’t easily be printed elsewhere an brought in.


17 posted on 03/30/2021 9:33:36 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
But wait -- there's no chance of an uprising against the government, so no one (especially dead and imaginary voters) even *needs* guns. /rimshot

18 posted on 03/30/2021 9:39:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mewzilla

issue every American a good quality firearm of his or her choice, the price being only that they complete a firearms safety class.

this will solve 90 percent of the problem.

also restore sbooting sports and firearms safety classes to all high schools. toss out ethnic grievance studies to pay for the costs


19 posted on 03/30/2021 9:39:44 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Starman417

A brilliant idea!


20 posted on 03/30/2021 9:47:01 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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