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vote fraud


-Alexander Fraser Tyler, “The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic”

Many of the biggest problems our country faces are not ones that we can rely on politicians to fix. The reason is that they often benefit from them. Ordinary people need to work between elections to change many of these. We need to do it between elections because everything that tries to fix a problem ends up in court, so any successes won’t materialize until after the next election.

We mentioned a bigger issue with regard to voting in the last article.

Is voting a right that belongs to everyone (citizenship is assumed)? Or is it a privilege with restrictions? Only two states allow felons to vote, so it is generally recognized that voting is a privilege and not an absolute right.

Originally in our country, the basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society. Leading colonists associated democracy with disorder and mob rule, and believed that the vote should be restricted to those who owned property or paid taxes. Only these people, in their view, were committed members of the community and were sufficiently independent to vote.”

These restrictions were gradually eliminated in our country, but our country is now experiencing something unthought-of in American history. About half of our country receives some form of government assistance. And just about half of our country does not pay any income taxes.

As people receive more things from the government, they become more dependent on the government. If it is a natural human tendency to go from accepting help to expecting help, how are people in this situation able to vote in a way that is best for the entire country?

Margaret Thatcher said that socialism doesn’t work because you always run out of other people’s money. We are not officially a socialistic country, but we are gradually relying on other people to take care of us rather than taking care of ourselves.

So when these people vote, they vote to benefit themselves at the expense of others. This will hurt our country in the long run. The issue of 18 year olds voting is the first step in insuring that voters are givers into the system rather than just takers.

I would even say that voting should be reserved for taxpayers period.

The fourth issue is voter ID laws. The only reason I can think of why people oppose this is that they know their party is benefitting from illegal votes. Do a google search for the things that require a photo ID in our country:

1) buy alcohol
2) buy cigarettes
3) open a bank account
4) apply for food stamps
5) apply for welfare
6) apply for Medicaid/Social Security
7) apply for unemployment or a job
8) rent/ buy a house, apply for a mortgage
9) drive/buy/rent a car
10) get on an airplane
11) get married
12) purchase a gun
13) adopt a pet
14) rent a hotel room
15) apply for a hunting/fishing license
16) buy a cell phone
17) visit a casino
18) pick up a prescription
19) hold a rally or protest
20) donate blood
21) buy an “M” rated video game
22) purchase nail polish at CVS
23) purchase certain cold medicines
24) cash a check

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