Posted on 09/06/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT by Twotone
That's funny!
No way! Not until they are 18 years old.
I agree with the premise that if you are receiving food stamps, welfare, etc. then you are not eligible to vote during the time you are receiving those benefits. Many welfare recipients are like children, expecting for their every need to be supplied by someone else. We don’t let our children vote so why should we let child-like adults vote?
Bravo!
Scratch people who can’t spell as well.
We need to absolutely verify if voters are citizens and eligible to vote. Obviously there are too many locales and election offices (sanctuary cities) that believe citizenship is irrelevant to rights.
Additionally I don’t trust politicians of EITHER party. Both will, given the opportunity, attempt to circumvent our election system, especially now that we have hackable voting machines with out an audit trail. Once either Party thinks they have the ability to usurp the people’s vote, God help us.
We need a third and fourth Party to keep the other two honest. That’s why purchasing agents always want and need at least 3 vendors to prevent collusion.
A paper ballot that has no ambiguity and that can be counted and recounted and stored for posterity is a better option. Forget the need to get an immediate result for the media. We can use an absentee ballot but they are only counted when the electronic voting outcome is very close. Only if we all used absentee ballots would it make a difference.
More correctly, something analogous to a contracted for benefit, as that is one of the benefits provided for having such coverage. (I am simplifying the legal aspect, here; but the point is that such a receipt should not disqualify one from voting.)
William Flax
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