Should some people be so ignorant or so badly informed or so strangely motivated that those individuals be discouraged or prevented from voting, as Jim Wright expressed?
Who gets to determine the criteria for voter eligebility?
One persons supposed ignorance is another persons knowledge about thier candidate.
Immigrants must pass a civics test in order to become naturalized U.S. citizens. That might be a good place to start.
The actual civics test is NOT a multiple choice test. During the naturalization interview, a USCIS officer will ask you up to 10 questions from the list of 100 questions in English. You must answer correctly 6 of the 10 questions to pass the civics test.
Although I do think many could pass the tests usually given by the immigration officer. I have been at a number of such hearings and I think they usually try not to be SOBs and ask the easier questions--things like what is the name of the president, what does the cabinet do, what is the highest US court called, etc. Most of my clients have committed all 100 questions to memory, and there are some pretty tough ones (like specific amendments by number) that I have never heard asked.
Good job! You answered 20 of 20 questions correctly.
Hardly surprising...
Even though I had to give a wrong answer to one question in order to get that score, because the test answer was wrong...
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the Declaration of Independence is that it was signed on July 4, 1776. In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn’t signed until August 2, 1776.
No. Citizens vote, period. Anything else, any type of hurdle, is unconstitutional.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Guinevere wrote:I've never not voted, nor understood those who didn't. It didn't matter where I lived, whether it was temporary like college and law school, or more permanent, one of the first things I've always done a new place is register to vote. And get my library card…
I didn't bother with local elections where I used to live. Since every race was an unopposed incumbent...why bother?
Scooter wrote:It would be a good start to acknowledge that anyone who believes that the current President is a Muslim, or was born outside of the U.S., is too stupid to be trusted to vote.
I would include anyone who believes the 9/11 attack was an "inside job", thinks the moon landings were faked, believes in alien abduction, or who thinks Jerry Lewis is funny...
That last rule is specifically designed to block illegal immigrants from France from voting...
I believe the 9/11 attacks were quickly followed by a massive cover-up of all sorts of (to use Gob's vernacular) major cock-ups on the part of pretty much every intelligence agency...and am more or less convinced that cats are from another planet, or maybe another dimension.
My wife got home about half an hour ago. I don't want to say she was busy...but she wound up almost 400 miles on my car today. (She is currently removing the "TRUMP 2016" signs from said car.)
I didn't bother with local elections where I used to live. Since every race was an unopposed incumbent...why bother?
There were a few columns on my ballot which had the same name endorsed by all (dems, repubs, conserv, libs....). Court justices. I wrote my own name in at the bottom on those contests. There is always another choice.
And where exactly have I written anything that isn't in the spirit of that poem? As noted above, you're the one who turned this thread nasty. And others.
And if you think that poem means sit on my hands and submissively accept all the things Trump intend to do that are contrary to the Constitution, and just plain morally wrong, you are sadly mistaken.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I've been sending her money since she announced her intention to run.