What do you think? Should voting be an inalienable right? Or should it be earned via good citizenship, devotion to the nation, or some other criterion?
What do you think? Should voting be an inalienable right? Or should it be earned via good citizenship, devotion to the nation, or some other criterion?
Voting is a right and it should stay a right.That said there should be limitations like at least 18, you have to present a state issued ID/driver's license when registering to vote, must present a state issued ID/driver's license to vote and you have to be an American citizen in order to vote.
Voting is a right and it should stay a right.That said there should be limitations like at least 18, you have to present a state issued ID/driver's license when registering to vote, must present a state issued ID/driver's license to vote and you have to be an American citizen in order to vote.
Being an adult and a citizen are one thing. Attaching meaningless ID requirements to voting merely serves as a barrier to keep poor/minority voters away, and doesn't actually solve any problem. Voter fraud is a virtually nonexistent problem in the United States...let alone the type of voter fraud that could be prevented with voter ID laws. This is nothing more than a cynical power grab by the Republican Party.
What do you think? Should voting be an inalienable right? Or should it be earned via good citizenship, devotion to the nation, or some other criterion?
Thats pretty funny, don't even know what to say to that one lol... Thats a little extreme to me. Anywho, here are our state requirements.
When you go to the polls to cast your vote in an election, be sure to take one of the following:*
-a driver's license,
-a Louisiana Special ID, or
-some other generally recognized picture ID that contains your name and signature.*
Voters who have no picture ID*may bring a utility bill, payroll check or government document that includes their name and address but they*will have to sign an affidavit furnished by the Elections Division in order to vote.**
Should any problems or questions arise, the principal office of the Registrar of Voters in each parish will be open from*6:00 a.m.*until*9:00 p.m.*on election day.
Does this sound that bad?
Anyway a physical body sounds good to go along with that, all the dead people voting is just wrong, same goes for the people that voted that actually didnt vote.
What do you think? Should voting be an inalienable right? Or should it be earned via good citizenship, devotion to the nation, or some other criterion?
Voting isn't included in the Bill of Rights.It is a right. It's the part of the first amendment of a list of 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution know as...wait for it........ The Bill of RIGHTS
Voting isn't included in the Bill of Rights.
That's right. Thank you for the correction half-asleep and drunk here. Cheers:2razz:
The Constitution simply states that certain people cannot be prevented from voting based on gender, race, or previous status of bonded servitude (slavery). I don't believe it is a right, since voting was never intended to be a right. It was reserved for white male landowners because it was felt that they understood the needs of the nation more than the poor and destitute, who the founders believed were incapable of Public Virtue (the ability to put the needs of the nation above their own).
Maybe at first but that was been expended upon since then.
15th: Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
19th: Establishes women's suffrage
26th:Establishes the official voting age to be 18 years old.
That only expands upon who is no longer prohibited from voting. At best, I would say it's a partial right.
The Constitution simply states that certain people cannot be prevented from voting based on gender, race, or previous status of bonded servitude (slavery). I don't believe it is a right, since voting was never intended to be a right. It was reserved for white male landowners because it was felt that they understood the needs of the nation more than the poor and destitute, who the founders believed were incapable of Public Virtue (the ability to put the needs of the nation above their own).
It could be argued... and not illogically... that rights are really nothing but glorified privileges. You only get rights because we have collectively agreed you/we can have them... and even then they are sometimes violated and/or outright taken away.That sounds like the criteria of a privilege, not a right.
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