I can see how that would deflect that nasty radiation.
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:06:50 PM PST by RCW2001
CELESTE TARRICONE, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, March 14, 2002
©2002 Associated Press
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/03/14/international2043EST6832.DTL
(03-14) 17:43 PST MEXICO CITY (AP) --
The Mexican government on Thursday launched a new Binational Commission on Voting Abroad, reiterating its commitment to give the vote to Mexican expatriates by the 2006 presidential election.
Juan Hernandez, director of President Vicente Fox's Office of Mexicans Abroad, said his department will establish a task force of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to put together a proposal for a foreign voting system.
"We need to find a way for Mexicans abroad to vote. They have the right to it," Hernandez said. "They're providing billions of dollars to this country, and they want to participate in their homeland."
The details for such a voting mechanism abroad still need to be worked out, and they also would have to be approved by the Mexican Congress.
In 1996, Congress approved a law giving Mexicans living abroad the right to vote, but failed to create a system to carry out such voting.
The task force will consider options including a traditional balloting system administered by Mexican consulates, electronic voting booths, and voting by email, Hernandez said.
The 1996 law also is murky about who is eligible to vote. For example, it's unclear whether Mexicans who become foreign citizens may still cast ballots.
"Congress will have to decide," Hernandez said. "There are differences of opinion."
Mexican activists in the United States hailed the administration's effort Thursday as a strong first step.
"We have a lot of Mexicans living abroad who are worried about their political participation, and the representation of immigrants in the government. We want a rapid solution to this," said Luis de la Garza, president of the Dallas-based National Council of Mexican Professionals and Businessmen.
The activists were in Mexico City for a three-day conference on the rights of Mexicans living abroad.
When Fox won the 2000 presidential election, ending 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, he pledged to make voting rights for Mexicans living abroad a top priority.
Many PRI officials had been reluctant to see Mexicans abroad voting because the expatriates tended to overwhelmingly support other parties.
But now, Hernandez said, all of Mexico's major political parties have expressed interest in setting up a voting system abroad.
About 10 million Mexicans live in other countries -- 8 million in the United States alone -- and constitute about 14 percent of all Mexicans of voting age, according to the independent Federal Electoral Institute.
Only about 1.5 million of them are registered voters.
But when the foreign voting system is put in place, it will not be difficult to get more Mexicans living abroad to register, Fernandez said.
"As soon as this is passed, everyone will know about it very quickly because of the great interest."
I can see how that would deflect that nasty radiation.
He will say that it is a great step forward in bringing families together while also matching employees to the needs of employeers.
This is exactly why I hate Mexico. We as a nation are going to remove our borders and let these people become yet another welfare state. That's it, if this crap goes through I am not paying another dollar in taxes to support some backward country that needs to develop it's own country instead of destroying ours.
10 bucks says that whole De Lome letter was nothing but a ruse to get America to feel secure about Mexico. Ten bucks says Vincente Fox was educated in Russia, just like Clinton. Send your people to America, so that way you can cripple America's government by taxing the system. That's the agenda here. Freeloading Mexicans working in America, shipping money back home so that they can bolster their economy while having their litters of kids here in America on the backs of the American Tax Payer. Thank you Mexico. I hope future generations in America will pay you back in kind you thieving bast--ds.
With the exceptions of military and foreign service personel, yes.
I oppose all absentee ballots, computer voting, or anything else that involves something besides physically casting a vote on Election Day. I want elections where voters show identification to register, and to cast a ballot.
I want to be rid of voter fraud, and lazy voters who are too inconvenienced to emerge from their life coccoons long enough to exercise their franchise are of no interest to me.
You realize that you just gave them an idea for their next demand, right?
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
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