[justiceseeker93]

The poisonous seed sown by the left is now bearing fruit for them. One of those is the voting rights act that keeps getting renewed. It was originally only supposed to last five years, now it has had two 25-year extensions in a row. It basically nullifies a states ability to regulate their own election.

I could be mistaken, but I don't think that the federal voting rights was all that important in enabling the 'Rats fixing of the presidential election. It's my understanding that the act applies mainly to the former Confederate states, which went for Romney, except for the crucial battleground states of Florida and Virginia. Perhaps you can explain to us in more detail how the voting rights act impacted the outcome.

But I agree with you that there was a "poisonous seed sown by the left" which enabled the fraud and cheating. Probably the single most significant aspect of it is early voting, where the connection to fraud should be obvious: the more days the polls are open, the more times the same individuals can be moved around the state to vote again and again. Other poisonous seeds were failure to require proof of citizenship, same day registration, "Motor Voter," and no-excuse absentee voting. Then there also were calculated delays in getting ballots to military personnel abroad, flouting a federal statute that was supposed to make this process more efficient. Then, too, 'Rats have a thing where demented and mentally retarded institutionalized individuals incapable of understanding the voting process vote by "assistants." Clearly the use of "assistants" can and should be mitigated by stricter state laws and administrative policies.

I would agree that instead of going along with the left's mantra of the more votes the merrier, we should emphasize the quality of the voter, not the quantity. I don't see anything wrong with requiring voters to pass an elementary civics test to register to vote, just as we require prospective driver licensees to pass a simple test on the rules of the road.

[hopespringseternal]

I could be mistaken, but I don't think that the federal voting rights was all that important in enabling the 'Rats fixing of the presidential election.

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I would agree that instead of going along with the left's mantra of the more votes the merrier, we should emphasize the quality of the voter, not the quantity. I don't see anything wrong with requiring voters to pass an elementary civics test to register to vote, just as we require prospective driver licensees to pass a simple test on the rules of the road.

This is exactly what the VRA was intended to prevent -- any impediment to minority voting, and making sure they can form coherent thoughts will be viewed as exactly that.

But we can't continue letting people with no real civic interest dictate the future of our nation.

Buying votes with freebies is the biggest election fix of all.