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To: careyb

To take this a step further, would that also make absentee ballots unconstitutional?


3 posted on 11/02/2008 4:33:06 AM PST by GOP_Raider (Retirement is wasted on old people.)
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To: GOP_Raider

As to the absentee ballot question, I’d say no. The ballots are considered to be cast on election day when they are counted after the polls are closed. The same argument could, I suppose, be used in support of “early” voting. I would counter the difference is that the voter records their vote while present, so it isn’t the same.


23 posted on 11/02/2008 4:52:53 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Never argue with an idiot, they always wear you down and beat you with experience)
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To: GOP_Raider

I think the franchise should be limited to people who do not get their living or a portion of it from the government. Such people are a natural constituency for ever increasing spending.


41 posted on 11/02/2008 5:35:07 AM PST by arthurus (Old age and guile beats youth and enthusiasm.)
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To: GOP_Raider
To take this a step further, would that also make absentee ballots unconstitutional?

Another "yes", unless a mechanism is created to make sure votes are not duplicated, amd not opened or counted until the prescribed "official" day.

Additionally, the reason for absentee voting should be narrowly defined, and not trivial, as simply for "convenience."

Civic duty doesn't tolerate "convenience."

50 posted on 11/02/2008 3:18:45 PM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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