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Op-Ed Needed: a new Voting Rights Act

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A new and more muscular CIVIL RIGHTS FOR VOTERS Amendment also needs to include:

All people who are residents of the United States on the date of the election, and who have a federally-issued Social Security Number, shall not be deprived of their right to vote. In addition, all residents who have Social Security numbers shall be required to obtain Photo ID's entirely free of any out-of-pocket costs, and recipients of these Photo ID cards shall be given the option to display their Social Security Number partially, or in its entirety. Photo ID Cards would be issued at federal ID offices, which would be operated by the Federal Government, OR privately with adherence to strict regulations governing the issuance of these ID's.

Yes, I am including people who are incarcerated, and ex-felons. Voting should be the most fundamental right that we are given the right to act upon.

(I am thinking kind of along the model of the Selective Service offices which used to exist, where all males reaching the age of 18 were required to register for the Draft, and all registered males were required to carry their Draft Card on their person at all times, until they were 45 years of age and no longer in the Draft pool.)

Photo ID, at the option of individual states, may be required at polling places. However, this does not add a burden, because all eligible voters would already be required to have a Federal ID card, without cost. Additionally, all states which choose to require Photo ID's, shall accept the additional options of recognizing Photo Drivers Licenses, or State Photo ID's which are often issued to persons who cannot drive.

(I am NOT sure what to do about absentee ballots, where arguably the chances for outright voting fraud are most prominent. Actually committing voting fraud at polling places, the alleged abuse which was supposed to be corrected by most of the restrictive voting laws, is quite difficult. None of the restrictive voting laws addressed absentee voting...AT ALL.)

In any election which includes any candidate for any Federal office, election tampering is cause for any County, Independent City, Parish, or Alaskan Borough or Census Division, or the entire State in cases where election tampering is legislated to lose all federal funding for a period not less than the entire calendar year after which the offense occurs.

Tampering would include differential voting hours, including those hours assigned for early voting, from any one location in the State compared to any other location in the State. Kulindahr, I like your suggestion of the proportional allocation of voting facilities, hardware, and capacity as well.

Obvious and deliberate lying (such as fliers telling people in Metropolis County or the 74th Ward that voting is on Thursday November 5...or telling voters that Photo ID is *NOT* required if it is indeed required) shall be punishable under Federal Law by fines no less than $1,000,000.

I could say a lot more. I say "more muscular" because it seems that many jurisdictions have devised MANY different ways of making end runs around the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 
Kulindahr said:
Huh? What "uniformity"? You mean like the "uniformity" we have with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.?

The whole point of having a federal government is that rights are recognized uniformly.
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Wonderful. We have something called Elections Canada (www.elections.ca) that you might want to look into. A non-partisan agency that conducts the entire national election the same way.
 
frankfrank said:
A new and more muscular CIVIL RIGHTS FOR VOTERS Amendment also needs to include:

All people who are residents of the United States on the date of the election, and who have a federally-issued Social Security Number, shall not be deprived of their right to vote. In addition, all residents who have Social Security numbers shall be required to obtain Photo ID's entirely free of any out-of-pocket costs, and recipients of these Photo ID cards shall be given the option to display their Social Security Number partially, or in its entirety. Photo ID Cards would be issued at federal ID offices, which would be operated by the Federal Government, OR privately with adherence to strict regulations governing the issuance of these ID's.

Yes, I am including people who are incarcerated, and ex-felons. Voting should be the most fundamental right that we are given the right to act upon.

(I am thinking kind of along the model of the Selective Service offices which used to exist, where all males reaching the age of 18 were required to register for the Draft, and all registered males were required to carry their Draft Card on their person at all times, until they were 45 years of age and no longer in the Draft pool.)

Photo ID, at the option of individual states, may be required at polling places. However, this does not add a burden, because all eligible voters would already be required to have a Federal ID card, without cost. Additionally, all states which choose to require Photo ID's, shall accept the additional options of recognizing Photo Drivers Licenses, or State Photo ID's which are often issued to persons who cannot drive.

(I am NOT sure what to do about absentee ballots, where arguably the chances for outright voting fraud are most prominent. Actually committing voting fraud at polling places, the alleged abuse which was supposed to be corrected by most of the restrictive voting laws, is quite difficult. None of the restrictive voting laws addressed absentee voting...AT ALL.)

In any election which includes any candidate for any Federal office, election tampering is cause for any County, Independent City, Parish, or Alaskan Borough or Census Division, or the entire State in cases where election tampering is legislated to lose all federal funding for a period not less than the entire calendar year after which the offense occurs.

Tampering would include differential voting hours, including those hours assigned for early voting, from any one location in the State compared to any other location in the State. Kulindahr, I like your suggestion of the proportional allocation of voting facilities, hardware, and capacity as well.

Obvious and deliberate lying (such as fliers telling people in Metropolis County or the 74th Ward that voting is on Thursday November 5...or telling voters that Photo ID is *NOT* required if it is indeed required) shall be punishable under Federal Law by fines no less than $1,000,000.

I could say a lot more. I say "more muscular" because it seems that many jurisdictions have devised MANY different ways of making end runs around the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Inserting a chip under your skin would be easier. That way the government could keep track of everyone.
 
No, we pretty much all knew what he meant.
 
Jack Springer said:
Are you in the UK? Maybe it means something different there.
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No. I’m actually closer to Appalachia where “tick boxes” are designed to hold small blood-sucking creatures.

:cool:​
 
opinterph said:
No. I’m actually closer to Appalachia where “tick boxes” are designed to hold small blood-sucking creatures.

:cool:​
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And even here in Texas my Grandma use to

th


them off!

I prefer the boxes that get ticked with a pen or a pencil! ..|
 
Really? Around here tick boxes are cages in which we put people with spasming facial muscles.

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I remember the matches though, chiggers, ticks, and red bugs Oh MY!
 
TX-Beau said:
Really? Around here tick boxes are cages in which we put people with spasming facial muscles.

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I remember the matches though, chiggers, ticks, and red bugs Oh MY!
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Tell me if I'm lying!

Tourists see bluebonnets, and wildflowers in the spring, and I see BILLIONS OF CHIGGERS! :bartshock

;)
 
Yeah and you see them out aside the highway in their shorts and flip-flops sitting in the bluebonnets - taking pics - and you just drive by laughing.
 
TX-Beau said:
Yeah and you see them out aside the highway in their shorts and flip-flops sitting in the bluebonnets - taking pics - and you just drive by laughing.
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Or see them propping up their babies for pictures, and resisting the urge to call Child Protective Services. :lol:
 
What is a chigger? And by red bugs is that the name of some sort of bug, or do you mean any variety of bugs that happen to be red.
 
Jack Springer said:
Never been out of the concrete jungle?
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No. We just don't have them here. Even out in the woods camping. You might have to worry about mosquitos and grizzly bears but not that. Black flies if you go far enough north. They're like little carnivorous fruit flies. But no chiggers.
 
I think I'd worry more about Grizzly Bears.
 
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