Cog wrote:Its racist to suggest that a person provide proof of citizenship to vote. You need to get with the program tovarishch.
Newfie wrote:Since being corrected by Tanada about motor voter laws, my research leads me to believe that, in the USA, it is ILLEGAL to require someone to show proof of citizenship to vote. I find that incredible.
So I started to look for what other countries do. Not quite as easy as I thought. I found a 2012 ABC piece listing 3 countries where it is easier to vote than the USA. Sweden, Australia, Estonia. In all three you can walk in and vote. EXCEPT, and NOT noted in the article, that all three maintain a database of citizens and you can vote PROVIDED you are in the list of citizens.
https://www.google.ca/amp/abcnews.go.co ... d=17625616
Just thought I'd throw this out for discussion.
Newfie wrote:I was once a hard core Liberal. I can't ascribe to the Rights agenda. There is no place for me in the American political spectrum.
It's not a D or R issue. It's an issue of common sense, which neither side is in possession of. The Rs are in power, if they wanted to fix this they could. So I hold them just as responsible as the Ds.
Newfie wrote:But riddle me this, if I want to HIRE someone I need to personally verify their citizenship or visa status. By Federal law. But it's too much to ask for proof of citizenship to vote.
MD wrote:A growing population drives demand. Both sides are in agreement, but from different directions. Easy to see from the fence.
KISS
Judicial Watch's Election Integrity Project, found that “some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America's adult citizens.” You don’t say.
Murdock’s state-by-state tally “found that 462 U.S. counties had a registration rate exceeding 100% of all eligible voters.”
Among the worse offenders was California. I know – I’m as shocked as you. He found that 11 California counties had more registered voters than physical voters. Los Angeles County had 12% more registered and San Diego County had an astonishing 138%. Just between these two counties, there were well over 1.5 million fraudulent registrations. That’s approaching half of the 3.5 million total, and a good chunk of Hillary’s overall whitewashing of Trump in California. She beat him by 4.3 million votes.
Newfie wrote:Reuters news piece
HOW TRUMPS IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN COULD SLOW FLOOD-HIT HOUSTONS EFFORTS TO REBUILD
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm ... BA2M0?il=0
"De Leon, 47, owns a small construction business in Houston, and he and his 10 employees do exactly the kind of demolition and refurbishing the city will need. But like a large number of construction workers in Texas, De Leon and most of his workers live in the United States illegally, and that could make things complicated.
The Pew Research Center estimated last year that 28 percent of Texas’s construction workforce is undocumented, while other studies have put the number as high as 50 percent. Construction employed 23 percent of working undocumented adults in Texas at the end of 2014, higher than any other sector, according to the Migration Policy Institute."
We have lost our collective mimd.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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