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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   Scalia should be impeached.
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   Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

   Well, sure. Maybe that your comprehension is not as good as you think ladies.
   
   The 15th amendment Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
   Where Universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by sex, race, social status, or wealth. It typically does not extend a right to vote to all residents of a region; distinctions are frequently made in regard to citizenship, age, and occasionally mental capacity or criminal convictions.
   
   Now one must take into consideration the 20 million or so non-citizens in the country, the incentive for them to attempt to vote on certain issues and for certain people who support those issues and the relative ease with which one can enter some polling places, obtain a ballot not their own and submit that ballot.
   
   Also one must consider the accounts of others who have stated they voted more than once in the last election. The ease with which “absentee” ballots or “vote by mail” ballots can be abused.
   
   Butr as to the 15th? Well one’s “legal” right to vote is protected.
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   wbr said, 4 months ago

   good point bruce 4671
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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   Just require all voters to answer 4 of 5 random questions from the test for naturalization, that would thin “conservative” ranks considerably, especially among “TEA party”, JBS, NRA, and “sovereigns”.

   
   While Scalia HAS actually read the Constitution, both he and his clone Thomas, have rendered several written opinions deserving of impeachment. (Of course Thomas makes Calvin Coolidge seem a total blabbermouth in oral arguments.)
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   wbr said, 4 months ago

   and wipe all the lib vote i like your idea dtroutma
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   onguard said, 4 months ago

   There is no Constitutional Right for a Citizen to Vote for President.
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   Ken M said, 4 months ago

   Methinks Hon. Sotamayor et. al. need a refresher on the 15th’s application to “citizens of the United States” first and foremost. And as far as dtroutma suggests, we should make sure that those random questions are all asked in English.

   The notion that there is still rampant denial of voting based on color, race or previous condition of servitude, as being portrayed by the leftist media, is absurd. We do not live in the 1950s or 1960s any longer, folks. Time to wake up to reality.
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   Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

   @dtroutma

   Which ones trout, and on what do you base your opinion?
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   Adrian Snare said, 4 months ago

   @Radish

   No, he is the necessary “brake”, a conservative to balance things…to keep man from becoming too “carried away” with progression.
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    Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

    @onguard

    Ok then explain this from the preamble to the bill of rights:
    
    “THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added”
    
    Added where?
    
    So amendments added are then “part of” the Constitution. And amendments 15, 19, 24, and 26 all begin their text with: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote.
    
    This “implies” that only citizens have a right to vote.
    
    Further, the 24th amendment says: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President…shall not be denied or abridged…”
    
    So, on guard, onguard. Support your opinion.
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    Adrian Snare said, 4 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    We need the balls to get something done concerning immigration..
    I would grant a limited citizenship to ALL of them..
    Do away with the term “illegal”.
    We need a national comprehensive ID system.
    We need a far better Congress…
    BTW, both “sins” are bad, one more so than the other..
    1 buying the election with oodles of money, more than the other side could ever raise..
    2 voting twice
    3 and those who never vote …
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    ronald rini said, 4 months ago

    I like the idea if you can’t read how can you vote on a issue. at one time there were a lot of people who could not read. I also think you shoud have to the polls to vote. And also on tax issue you should have to own a house or have or had a job.
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    Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

    @Adrian Snare

    Well now, I agree with your opening statement Then…really? Grant them all citizenship? (no such thing as temporary in government) Do away with a word that is descriptive of those that break the law? Really?
    
    First, one must “earn” citizenship UNLESS one meets all the requirements currently stated in the federal statutes. There is a long standing time honored process.
    
    Second, ignoring the problem by not using a “word” is ludicrous. Like not using the words “radical Muslim” or “terrorist” will change the attitude of those that are those things. Worked well at Ft. Hood did it not?
    
    You are very generous with other peoples things aren’t you?
    
    As for the rest? Ok I agree.
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    Alc7 said, 4 months ago

    A thought: as long as we are discussing voting etc., what about the “popular vote” vs the “Electoral College” and Gerrymandering?
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    Mom of 5 said, 4 months ago

    Allen Corneau: While in college the discussion came up about the “Electoral College” and “popular vote”. My instructor was very clear that we here in Washington the State would be fine, as we have a West side of the state and an East side. But when Rhode Island or Texas voted, always Texas would have the upper hand and Rhode Island would have no voice at all. When I think of that I then wonder if they should have a voice at all anyway. They have (lets just round it up) 4 people versus Texas who has 4000. During an Electoral vote situation R.I. gets 1 representative. TX, gets 4. It’s still a win for Texas but the rest of the country has to vote to make it mean anything. Now the problem is the GOP rearranging the lines in their states to make it all GOP when that is not the case. That has to stop. When the popular vote is 50/50 and the votes go 18/2 there is something wrong and our country all needs to be screaming bloody murder at what Virginia is doing.
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