One of the most important powers that we have as citizens is the right to vote. How could you agree with taking away that right, forever, because of a mistake? I swear some of you self-righteous people that were blessed to be born in nice areas are so judgemental and cruel. One crime warrants x-amount of time. When that time is served and the debt is paid back, why shouldn't their voting rights be restored?
There is voter fraud. Stop early voting. Have a national holiday for voters day and encourage all to vote in person. Exceptions should be for the military and those serving our country to vote by absentee ballot. Nursing homes can bus the elderly in to vote. All voters need to have a valid state picture ID. The voter rolls need to be validated between states. There are too many elections that are decided by small numbers and it is far too easy to commit a fraud. There are some counties that have more voters on the roll than eligible citizens in the census.
My right to vote as a Citizen doesn't stop because I leave the country for non-military reasons. That is my right as a U.S. Citizen to vote when I'm living outside the USA for any reason. You don't get to tell me how or if I get vote via absentee ballot because I live outside the USA to take care family, study or work.
I continue to hear about people being harmed by policy and laws but no suggestions as how to keep the democracy from being harmed by allowing ineligble people to cast ballots. What is your suggestion to ensuring that the voter is indeed a valid and eligible citizen of that precinct? I hear no suggestions other than let everyone vote. Allowing a free for all is just as insideous a policy as voter suppression.
Whenever this article made allegations or straight-up accusations that X, Y, & Z are taking place, I expected to see some sort of clickable link or point of reference by which the allegations and accusations could be further investigated, but... no links to references were given.
Now, I am not saying that no elderly person, poor person, or person with higher levels of melanin in their dna (who were non-incarcerated, legal citizens) have ever been prevented from voting, I'm only saying that I've known anyone or known someone who's known of anyone who falls under those groups and was kept from voting because of it.
But even so, I was open to having my mind changed with evidence to the contrary, yet despite all the allegations and accusations made in this article, the evidence to corroborate those allegations were excluded. Why?
"I'm only saying that I've *not* known anyone or known someone who's known anyone who..."
I would like to support or initiate a program to provide funds for those individuals that lack the "proper" voter id. I think that many concerned people in the US would donate funds to pay for the "Required ID" in those states that are using this method to prevent voting. It would be possible to use donations to pay the fees for those voters that due to financial limitations do not have the funds to pay for the id.