The privilege of voting

The privilege of voting
August 7,2013
Ron DuBois

The privilege of voting allows us a say in who will represent and lead us. To be sure our voices carry their proper weight, only those of us who meet the Constitutional qualification of citizenship can vote. To ensure this, our Founders wrote, in the Constitution, that only American citizens, either born or naturalized, could vote. For people who are not citizens or are, in other ways, ineligible to vote, it would cancel out votes by legal citizens and disenfranchise them.

Years ago, when people registered to vote, they showed their birth certificates, citizenship papers, or other documentation, and were then given a voter registration card. This was an important document, because it not only identified your Party affiliation, and proved you were eligible to vote, it prevented you from voting in another Party’s primary to illegally affect its choice of candidate. We also have the FEC (Federal Election Commission) to insure the proper election rules are followed, according to the States’ dictates, as enumerated in Article I Section 4, of the US Constitution, and also make sure the States keep their voter roles free of ineligible voters, and delete the names of voters who have lost their voting priviledge, e.g.- become felons, or died.

Since we usually vote where we live, the “poll watchers” know most of the voters, and only need ask those they are not sure of for their Registration cards. This keeps those who would commit fraud from voting multiple times, or if they are ineligible. Some time ago, for reasons unknown to me it seems they stopped using Voter Registration cards.

Today, there have been so many allegations of voter fraud, that the citizens want the ability returned, to insure voters who come to the polls are entitled to vote. This should be a simple task. More than 90% of all citizens ave driver’s licenses or equivalent DMV-issued ID cards. Passports also serve as valid ID. Any citizen needing an ID can obtain one free at their State Motor Vehicle Agency.

So why do some people, or politically-motivated goups, protest a voter ID requirement, claiming it would disenfranchise “poor people”? I see no valid reason. For decades, voters had to show an ID to vote. Nobody had a problem with this; if you were ineligible you simply didn’t vote. For this reason, I contend that using voter ID in the past caused no problems, and no eligible voters, poor or otherwise, were disenfranchised, voter IDs should be brought back. The reason is that the voting demographics have changed, and the current system, where proof of citizenship is not required to register to vote, or to actually cast a vote, leaves the process open to unimaginable degrees of fraud. It means almost anyone, with no documentation at all, can wind up voting in both Local and National elections. With numbers of known ineligible residents, unimaginably larger than at any point in our history, the possibiity of sufficiently changing the outcome of our elections to reflect the desires of those voting illegally, could easily cause the actual legal American citizens to be disenfranchised, not – as some groups argue, the “poor” people, that the anti-voter ID groups represent, who are mostly here illegally, and ineligible to vote.

A major concern of not knowing if voters are eligible is not just the number of illegals who are registered to vote, and do, but the threat of an “amnesty” for millions of people here illegally. These people would eventually become citizens and legally vote. Historically these illegals have been supported by the Democrats, who see them as a Democratic voting bloc. No matter how hard you try to ignore this bloc’s make-up, or political leanings, it holds the very existence of the United States of America in its grasp. There is little doubt that almost every illegal, courted by the Democrats, who use financial incentives such as free health care, free education, food and housing assistance, and protection from the Immigration Department deporting them, will vote Democratic upon being awarded citizenship.

Like it or not, this aspect of having a voter ID law must be included in any discussion, because the sheer number of illegals would guarantee that the Republicans could never again get enough votes to control the House, the Senate, or the White House, leaving a one-party Government that would be, in reality, a Dictatorship.

For our Government, and our entire way of life as created by our founders, to be overthrown and replaced, because one political party may succeed in granting a group, consisting of millions of Illegal lawbreakers the gift of American citizenship, solely to perpetuate their own power in office, simply cannot be ignored or allowed.

Our own Founders, people like Alexis de Tocqeville, and others, warned of this possibility. It is a weakness inherent in our system of Government, and can only be prevented by a moral and religious citizenry, as noted by James Madison. I believe our morality and our religious roots have been severely damaged, over a number of decades, and the ability to restore them is uncertain.

So I truly believe the issue of whether or not to pass voter ID laws is not a simple issue. It is of the most extreme importance because, seemingly innocuous, the very existence of a future America may be decided by it. You see, the voter ID laws are necessary to hold honest elections. Illegal votes could seat enough pro-amnesty politicians, to push into law total amnesty for those who are here illegally to begin with. Thus would our Federal Republic be toppled by a group of outsiders who broke our laws to come here illegally, to be put in such a position by self-serving traitors. This almost doesn’t seem possible, but it is.