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To: hopespringseternal
The power to vote should be restricted to those who are employed or own a business, and those who pay taxes.

That could get tricky. It could take the right to vote away from senior citizens, who tend to be more conservative voters.

If the right to vote were restricted to those who've been US citizens at least five years, it would stop a lot of mischief.

In OH last election, nobody's talking about what might have been the real problems. Vote-by-mail means anyone could get a ballot for someone, fill it in, get some sort of signature, and mail it. Another issue: early voting happens at polling places away from ones home polling place. Nobody really knows what happens to those votes when for instance voters from Cleveland's suburbs go to an east-side location to vote early.

To make it fair again, people would have to report to a local place on election day, and the votes would have to be counted without technology.

If it's local, people will keep an eye on it. And you know what? The less responsible voters probably won't be as likely to vote.

29 posted on 07/07/2013 8:08:26 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania
That could get tricky. It could take the right to vote away from senior citizens, who tend to be more conservative voters.

If the senior citizens are capable of supporting themselves, they vote.

As soon as you are on the dole, no vote.

We are now at a place where half the population is getting a government check and then gets to vote on how much the check is. The democrats now have a self-perpetuating constituency that has a vested interested in destroying this nation.

36 posted on 07/07/2013 10:03:18 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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