Voting should be esteemed as a sacred responsibility. Anybody found guilty of voter fraud should be convicted of a felony, stripped of citizenship, and convicted of treason. The penalty could vary some, but it needs to reflect how serious the crime is and deter others. When you defraud the system you disenfranchise actual voters: you steal their citizenship effectively.
If people can’t make it to a polling place because they serve our nation abroad in the military or some other capacity then of course they get to vote from where they are, but these current schemes trivialize voting and open it up to widespread fraud. Somehow in the age of secure electronic purchases we have a joke of an honor system with ballots filled out by harvesters then possibly counted by partisans in secret.
I vote. I voted. But I know corruption is rampant. I saw it at my polling place when illegal aliens were given provisional ballots. Voter fraud has been an open secret in Chicago for many, many decades, hence the “joke”: Vote early, vote often.
What would be the criteria for "understanding the responsibility"?
When I voted last week, a lady walked up and asked if she could vote there. She had just moved from another county and wanted to vote in the new county. She was told she had to go to the old county if she wasn't registered in the new one. She looked so confused.
I turned to my wife and said, "I don't care who she is voting for but if she doesn't understand the basics of how to vote, she clearly doesn't understand the issues and shouldn't be voting."
I went on to explain to my wife about how land owners were only allowed to vote in the past because they worried that those that didn't own land would vote on issues they had no knowledge of.
Voting should be esteemed as a sacred responsibility. Anybody found guilty of voter fraud should be convicted of a felony, stripped of citizenship, and convicted of treason. The penalty could vary some, but it needs to reflect how serious the crime is and deter others. When you defraud the system you disenfranchise actual voters: you steal their citizenship effectively.
If people can’t make it to a polling place because they serve our nation abroad in the military or some other capacity then of course they get to vote from where they are, but these current schemes trivialize voting and open it up to widespread fraud. Somehow in the age of secure electronic purchases we have a joke of an honor system with ballots filled out by harvesters then possibly counted by partisans in secret.
I vote. I voted. But I know corruption is rampant. I saw it at my polling place when illegal aliens were given provisional ballots. Voter fraud has been an open secret in Chicago for many, many decades, hence the “joke”: Vote early, vote often.
That is why it should be reserved for those who understand responsibility.
What would be the criteria for "understanding the responsibility"?
When I voted last week, a lady walked up and asked if she could vote there. She had just moved from another county and wanted to vote in the new county. She was told she had to go to the old county if she wasn't registered in the new one. She looked so confused.
I turned to my wife and said, "I don't care who she is voting for but if she doesn't understand the basics of how to vote, she clearly doesn't understand the issues and shouldn't be voting."
I went on to explain to my wife about how land owners were only allowed to vote in the past because they worried that those that didn't own land would vote on issues they had no knowledge of.
I asked a question in the beginning of my statement.
I ended my statement with historical facts.
I never advocated for going back to only land owners, I'm asking what would be a good criteria.
That sounds illegal, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in a county you are no longer a resident of.
She wasn't. She didn't know the rules but the person working the polls told her she had to back to the county she was registered in.
Exactly! My feelings exactly!
Talk to me.
Yeah? I'll keep you in mind. We need people like you!
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