The Making of the Fox News White House

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(03-12-2019, 10:40 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Nothing concrete; but why not try to fix something before it's broken. Many children brought here illegally are closing in of voting age.

I have no problem with the periodic purging of roles as long as no one area is targeted. I have never been a fan of early voting. I would like to see a Holiday such as President's Day retooled to become Election Day

I think the goal is to get more qualified people to vote. If we want more people to vote we can lower the age to 12.

Personally something I struggle with internally is the "qualification" to vote. I feel with this right comes a degree of responsibility.

"Obtaining an ID is in the too hard to do block, but let me vote for the policies of the nation". I get it's an elitist view (aka the struggle), but why do folks continually complain about Trump and his ignorant base and then suggest there should be no responsibility attached to this right?

I can tell you first hand when I went to the polls to cast my vote in 2016 I saw at least 2 people that had never seen the inside of a voting booth in their life and the workers there had to do everything but check the blocks for them. It was quite obvious where their vote was going.

I don't see a need to fix a nonexistent problem, especially if it requires us making voting harder for our poorest citizens. The fact that it can be hard to get to specific government buildings to access these ID's doesn't mean these citizens aren't worthy of the right to vote. 

I don't understand when laws are created to target Native Americans who live on reservations, invalidating their previous legal addresses. Or why the a candidate for governor of Georgia can legally dismiss tens of thousands of voters, 80% of color, in the year before the election. I question why 30 states introduced stricter voting laws prior to the 2012 election after Black voter turnout increased in 2008 or when 2 swing states that shifted R to D in 2008 (after a 10% increase in early voting) decided to cut early voting by half. 

It doesn't add up to being worried about illegal voting. It seems to be a worry about legal voting of groups of people they oppose.