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To: careyb

“What do y’all think?”

I’m with you.

EVERYthing that has been done to “improve” voting has done little more than subvert and corrupt the process, and tilt the results towards liberals and their efforts to tamper with the integrity of the vote.

We should go back to the “old way”: that is to say, register IN ADVANCE, then show up and vote on the first Tuesday in November (with absentee ballots for a select and justified few who otherwise could not make it to the polls).

No “early voting”
No “mail-in ballots”
No “Motor Voter”
No “Provisional ballots”
No “Same day registration/voting”
Restricted absentee balloting

In effect, we should make it HARDER to cast your vote, not easier. This filters out the fraud by default, in that voting takes effort and dedication.

In my state (Connecticut) there is even a ballot provision this year to “extend” the voting age downward to age 17, in state primary elections! Absolute nonsense, though it will probably pass.

I guess I’m a curmudgeon, but proud of being one. I’ll go so far as to say that I think the voting age should be raised back up to age 21 nationally. There was a reason the founding fathers selected this age - and that was in a time when young men often had to begin “making it on their own” earlier in life.

Just some thoughts,
- John


49 posted on 11/02/2008 8:13:46 AM PST by Fishrrman
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To: Fishrrman
I’ll go so far as to say that I think the voting age should be raised back up to age 21 nationally.

As someone who voted initially at the age of 19 (for GWB in '00), I completely agree. The only problem is a) would a Constitutional amendment even get to Congress and b) even if it gets that far, would it even be ratified by half of the state, let alone 2/3rds that's required?

51 posted on 11/02/2008 3:43:00 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Retirement is wasted on old people.)
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